There are four general medicine teams which admit patients of private and full-time faculty and house staff. The house staff take call as a team every fourth day for 24 hours to admit patients. A cardiology team admits every third day to the cardiac care unit and cardiology wards. These teams have interns admitting and seeing patients during daytime hours. There is a float team at night to cover the teams not on call.
All divisions have active consult teams with fellows, residents, and students.
Patients are admitted to Hermann from private and academic faculty clinics, house staff panel clinics, the emergency center, and upon transfer from outlying areas of Texas, as well as the world. This is symbolized in the physical plant, with each floor connecting to Hermann. This provides easy access and readily available support from the academic faculty and convenience for house staff and students who attend conferences. Many clinical faculty are based in nearby private offices, many in Hermann Professional Building, just across the street, is connected by a tunnel underneath Fannin Street. Many private internists utilize this close proximity to supervise care to their patients by medicine house staff while they participate in the academic community.