Hampton Health in Hospitals and Post-Acute Facilities works within major hospitals and Post-Acute Facilities encompassing a broad spectrum of long-term care, including Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF’s), Assisted Living Facilities (ALF’s), Independent Living Facilities (ILF’s), adult day care and more.

Dr. John H. Fullerton is credited with co-inventing the hospitalist business (and clinical) methods of care; submitting the first method patent for hospitalist care-"The Sub-Acute Solution: A Method for Hospital-Based Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Medical Care and Training"-c in 12/93.

He completed his Internal Medicine residency at California Pacific Medical Center (formerly Pacific Presbyterian Hospital), where he was selected “resident of the year’ and subsequently served as a chief medical resident. For more than nine years he worked as a hospitalist and pioneered early ‘hospitalist’ methods at a satellite of CPMC by successfully integrating internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care principles into an internal medicine program.

Within the field of long-term care (hospital and post-acute), Dr. John Fullerton, on behalf of Hampton Health, Ltd., has fostered clinical academic positions involving and developing curricula for in-patients as well as creating medical home care models. His work has served to expand and support the role of certified medical directorships and directorships in residency training programs.