Schumacher Group’s Hospital Medicine service line has augmented its existing structure with three new Regional Vice President roles, in order to meet aggressive strategic objectives for 2012 and beyond. Please welcome Carl Simmons and Dylan Cutrera to these positions effective March 1st and Rick Aguado on April 1st. Hospital Medicine continues to experience tremendous growth, [...]
David, M. Grace, MD, FHM, Area Medical Officer with Schumacher Group’s Hospital Medicine Division, traveled to the annual week-long Burning Man festival in late summer. The event calls itself an “annual art event and temporary community based on radical self-expression.” Grace wrote about his experiences for the Schumacher Group blog. Burning Man defines itself as [...]
Judy Walters Hospital Medicine/ EDRC “Here at ETMC-Henderson, I strive to interact with each patient that is admitted to this hospital. I also do follow up with phone calls after discharge to make sure proper care was provided and see if there is anything I [HPC] can do to make their stay better or more comfortable.” Selina [...]
Schumacher Group is proud to announce a partnership with WellnessWorks — a privately held health care business development firm that works with patients’ employers to identify community resources that deliver primary care, specialty care and workers compensation services. “We come from Emergency Medicine but our mission includes improving quality for patients, and that doesn’t just mean in the [...]
Nancy Duhon – Medical Records “The role of the Medical Records Department for Emergency Medicine within the company is to hire, train, manage and support Emergency Department Records Coordinators who work individually and off-site at our client hospitals. Patient care is impacted by their basic function which is to provide timely submission of all ED [...]
Amy Kurowski – Medical Informatics “My role in the Medical Informatics Department impacts patient care both directly and indirectly from a resource perspective. I assist our providers to ensure quality documentation is delivered. As a documentation expert my role entails assisting providers in making certain they meet medical, legal, and critical documentation guidelines. I work [...]
How is your hospital adopting new technology to improve patient care? Mark Mitchell, DO, FACOEP shares his insights on how technology is revolutionizing emergency medicine and changing the expectations of emergency providers. At Schumacher Group, we support our providers with with 24-hours-per-day feedback through our online portal pages. Check out how we’re making every day [...]
Lois Jones – Nurse Liaison “It is my duty as well as my privilege as a Nurse Liaison to attempt at all costs to provide patients with the best experience when they enter the Emergency Department. I realize in order to achieve patient satisfaction, we need to know what it is that the patient wants when they [...]
LAFAYETTE, La.. July 20, 2011 – When it comes to accessing health care services, many consumers today are taking matters into their own hands through mobile technology. At Schumacher Group, we are putting this technology to work for our hospital clients. “We have recently partnered with iTriage, the nation’s leading mobile consumer-facing healthcare solution, to deliver [...]
Jonathan Cary – Information Technology “I impact patient care by leading an Information Technology team that delivers technology solutions which allow providers and internal employees to make informed decisions as quickly as possible with timely and reliable data. Also, my team and I impact patient care in emergency medicine and hospital medicine by automating business [...]
