Skaggs Regional Medical Center in Branson hired Charles Ellis as vice president and chief clinic administrative officer. Ellis has 16 years of medical management experience throughout Michigan and Indiana. In his role at Skaggs, he works to improve delivery of care and to build community relationships.
St. John’s Health System honored Curtis Myers, safety and security manager, with the Volunteer of the Year Award at the St. John’s Mercy Service Awards banquet held earlier this month. He is recognized for his continued support of St. John’s Foundation for Community Health, including serving as a Sunshine Run committee member.
Morgan Simpson, director of the Citizens Memorial Healthcare Sports Medicine Center in Bolivar, was elected vice president of the Mid-American Athletic Trainers Association. He is a licensed athletic trainer and has a degree in sports medicine and athletic training from Missouri State University. Simpson has been director of the CMH Sports Medicine Center for more than 10 years.
Dr. Tracy Fite joined Skaggs Regional Medical Center’s Branson West clinic. Fite, a graduate of Drury University, is a family practice physician. She earned her medical degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed her residency at the University of Arkansas.
Dr. Mark Edelstein, an obstetrician-gynecologist, joined Skaggs Regional Medical Center’s family health clinic. He has more than 25 years of experience, much of it in private practice in the St. Louis area. Edelstein, who earned his medical degree from Chicago Medical School, specializes in minimally invasive laparoscopic and urinary incontinence surgeries.
The Missouri Foundation for Health has awarded grants totaling $786,996 to 10 Springfield-area nonprofits. The grants, through MFH’s basic support program, are part of a $5.8 million round of funding approved by the board in March. Local recipients and grant amounts are: Child Avocacy Center Inc., $75,000; Community Alliance for Compassionate Care at the End of Life, $75,000; The Doula Foundation of Mid-America, $75,000; GYN Cancers Alliance, $55,622; Least of These Inc., $72,374; McAuley Counseling Services Inc., $75,000; National Alliance on Mental Illness of Southwest Missouri, $75,000; Ozarks Regional YMCA, $150,000; Pregnancy Care Center, $75,000; and Stone County Assistance Team–Lakes Area Child Advocacy Center, $58,000.
A team of Ozarks Technical Community College students – Tabitha Allen, Kayla Spidle, Amber Snider, and alternate Kristin Ownby – won first place in the Missouri Association of Surgical Technologists’ Annual Scrub Bowl. The competition comprises written questions from the surgical technologist certification exam. Another OTC student, Kevin Shatswell, won one of two $250 scholarships awarded at the competition.
Dr. Paul Stortz, a family practice physician with Citizens Memorial Healthcare, achieved board certification from the American Board of Family Medicine. He earned his medical degree at University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford, Ill., and completed his residency at Cox Family Medicine. He joined CMH in 2009.
CoxHealth hired Pete Leer as vice president of clinical services. Leer has a master’s degree in health administration from Duke University and 30 years of administrative experience in health care, most recently as senior vice president and chief operating officer at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison, Ark.
Janice Williams, nursing program director at College of the Ozarks, was appointed to the Missouri State Board of Nursing’s special committee to review and revise the minimum standards for programs of professional nursing and practical nursing programs for 2010–11. She also was recently elected president of the Nursing Education Consortium of Southwest Missouri.
Jean Orr, associate professor of psychology at Evangel University and a licensed psychologist, recently traveled with an 11-member team from Assemblies of God Healthcare Ministries to provide volunteer counseling services to earthquake victims in Port au Prince, Haiti. The team, which also included doctors, nurses, a physical therapist and an ophthalmic technician, treated more than 1,400 individuals.
Two CoxHealth employees, Daniel Good and Diane McClaskey, were recognized by the Missouri Society of Health-System Pharmacists for their volunteer efforts and dedication to the profession. Good, who is CoxHealth’s pharmacy director, is chairman of the society’s public policy committee, which represents the group at the Missouri Board of Pharmacy meetings in Jefferson City and is involved with developing a medication therapy management practice model. McClaskey is director of CoxHealth’s pharmacy residency program and is chairwoman of the society’s Web site committee. She also helped with the transition to an electronic newsletter for the group.
Cox HealthPlans hired Robbie Perry, a registered nurse and manager of medical management. She previously worked at Kaiser Permanente Health Plan in Sacramento, Calif., where she managed disease-specific programs and supervised outreach efforts. At Cox HealthPlans, Perry is responsible for daily oversight of case management operations and direction for patient and physician communication programs.
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