Leadership
Empowering Clinical Leaders with USACS Executive Coaching Program
USACS is built on a promise: to deliver care without compromise led by those who live it. Central to our promise is the development of clinical leaders, those of today and of tomorrow. The USACS Executive Coaching Program is one of many resources designed with this priority in mind. Free for our Physicians and APPs, […]
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Physician Leadership Development Through USACS Scholars Program
Physician leadership is the foundation of USACS. It is who we are. It is what drives us forward. To maintain this edge, we established the USACS Scholars Program. A year-long experience, this program prepares, places, and retains physicians in site-level leadership. Scholars emerge as the next generation of acute care changemakers, empowering them to embrace […]
Read ArticleEdwin Tenali, PA-C Recognized as 2022 Healthcare Hero
Maryland’s The Daily Record has honored PA-C Edwin Tenali as its Healthcare Hero for 2022. But Tenali, to no one’s surprise, is quick to credit his entire team for reaching impressive metrics in reducing readmits. However, he explained, he does deploy an effective strategy that has always worked for him: listening to his patients. “I […]
Read ArticlePatrick Desamours, MPAS, PA-C, MBA, SFHM named to the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) at Carroll Hospital in Westminster, MD
Regional IAC APP Lead Patrick Desamours, MPAS, PA-C, MBA, SFHM was recently named to the Medical Executive Committee (MEC) at Carroll Hospital in Westminster, MD. “APPS are not typically part of MEC,” Desamours said. “So to be appointed as MEC member at large, it shows that APPs are being considered as integral members of the […]
Read ArticleUSACS Clinical Resource Group Team Publishes on Leader Standard Work
By Stephanie Kupec MSN, RN Senior Associate, Director of Site Optimization Leader Standard Work has been a focus of the Clinical Resource Group for the past three years. Leader Standard Work (LSW) is a concept that ensures standard work processes and practices are in place and consistently followed. This approach is a driver for leadership […]
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NCGB Awards: Honoring Dr. Joseph Pepe
National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence Awards At the most recent US Acute Care Assembly, six of our outstanding clinicians received the USACS National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence awards for their extraordinary work with our hospital partners. Isabelle Hertig, MD, Critical Care, Shady Grove Medical Center, nominated by Ajit Kuruvilla, MD Joseph Pepe, DO, Emergency […]
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NCGB Clinical Excellence Awards: Honoring PA-C David Hoch
National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence Awards At the most recent US Acute Care Assembly, six of our outstanding clinicians received the USACS National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence awards for their extraordinary work with our hospital partners. Isabelle Hertig, MD, Critical Care, Shady Grove Medical Center, nominated by Ajit Kuruvilla, MD Joseph Pepe, DO, Emergency […]
Read ArticleFull Circle
Growing up, one of Dr. Janice Jones’ favorite things to do was to, with her father and sister, take her mom lunch at the hospital where she worked as a NICU nurse practitioner. She would get to go on a tour and remembers thinking that her mother did remarkable work. “Each year, there was a […]
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International Women’s Day: Shining a Light into the Darkness
Shining a Light in the Darkness A Dream Fulfilled Since she was three years old, Jessica Munoz has worn a stethoscope around her neck, with the dream of offering healing and presence to people in their darkest moments. It was a dream realized early in life: she earned her BSN directly after high school and […]
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Celebrating Women: Words of Wisdom from an Admired USACS Physician
As we conclude Women’s History Month, The Shift had a conversation with one of the most admired leaders at US Acute Care Solutions, Chairman of the National Clinical Governance Board Joan Kolodzik, MD, FACEP, also a physician in the southwest Ohio area, serving clinically in many of the Mercy Health hospitals. Her home base is […]
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