AHMG was founded in December 2005 by Fara Kardan, M.D. with the goal of improving quality and efficiency of inpatient care through providing the highest quality of care in the most efficient manner.

In 2006, AHMG successfully implemented the hospitalist program for “Unassigned Patients” at Mission Hospital and from April 2006 thru March 2008 successfully operated the hospitalist program with outstanding results.


Some of AHMG’s achievements during this period include:

• More than 60% improvement in quality indicators (AMI, CHF, PNA, etc...)
• More than 40% improvement in ALOS
• Proper utilization of hospital resources with almost 50% reduction in avoidable bed days (AVBD)
• Active involvement in CPOE design and implementation
• Significant savings in pharmacy cost and improvement in quality of care with proper use of medications, appropriate dosing, etc...

Which all of these resulted in significant improvement in overall quality of patient care and outcome with substantial savings (ROI) through AHMG‘s unique high quality, more efficient and multidisciplinary approach to inpatient care.

AHMG’s scope of the hospitalist services was expanded in the second year of its operation to manage more private referrals and to surgical co-managements in order to meet the increasing demand by medical staff and the local physicians in the community.

AHMG is currently expanding its geographic service area to assist other hospitals and medical groups to set up a successful hospitalist program through its unique hospitalist model in order to achieve similar outstanding results and return on investment (ROI) as was accomplished at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, CA.