Meet William Landis, MD
 Dr. William Landis was born in Victoria, Texas and still carries that name with him. After serving as Chief Resident at Reading Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Landis began his career as a “Hospitalist” with Brockie Internal Medicine Consultants in York Pennsylvania.
He has remained with that same medical group through it’s evolution from a private practice model into the WellSpan Hospitalists Program which now provides services at both York Hospital and Gettysburg Hospital with a total of 40 hospitalist team members including both physician and non-physician providers. He functions as Medical Director of that program.
Dr. Landis has served Wellspan Health System in important functions on the board of South Central Preferred and the York Hospital and has been a member of the Medical Executive Committee at York Hospital for years. His commitment to the medical residency teaching program has been recognized at local and state level including receiving the Henry Waxman Teaching Award by the ACP. He also served for 10 years as Associate Clinical Professor, Penn State University College of Medicine.
He has been involved with numerous WellSpan PI initiatives including the development of the hospitalists program, & ICU teams, implementation of CPOE, and transitions of care and re-admission improvement. He is an inaugural member of the first fellowship class and currently serves as Chairman of the Society of Hospital Medicine Practice Analysis Committee which produces the collaborative report with MGMA, “The State of Hospital Medicine”.
Dr. Landis has been passionately committed to the hospitalist movement over many years and has a personal mission of strengthening hospitalist effectiveness.
Among Dr. William Landis' accomplishments:- Sponsorship and support of long-term development of physician communication skills
- Enhanced patient satisfaction scores
- Dramatic improvement in the substance and turnaround time of discharge summaries
- Initiation of a performance-based pay system that factors in patient experience scores, discharge summary timeliness and quality and other key indicators
Education:- Internal Medicine Residency – 1982-1986: Reading Hospital and Medical Center
- Chief medical resident –July 1985 – June 1986.
- Medical resident – July 1983 – June 1985.
- Intern –July 1982 – June 1983.
- Univ of South Florida College of Medicine: M.D. 1982; outstanding student award 1982 (top graduate in class); AOA honor society
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