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Cooley Dickinson’s interim president an Amherst native
DAVID BROWN
Published: 3/3/2021 8:12:17 PM
NORTHAMPTON Massachusetts General Hospital’s chief of emergency medicine, and a 1981 Amherst Regional High School graduate, will assume the role of interim president and chief executive officer at Cooley Dickinson Health Care on Monday.
Dr. David F.M. Brown, a member of Cooley Dickinson’s board of trustees since 2013, takes over for Joanne Marqusee, who is stepping down after seven years at the helm of the Northampton hospital.
“I’ve seen the progress this organization made under Joanne Marqusee’s leadership and I’m looking forward to building on her legacy,” Brown said in a statement.
Emergency Physicians Welcome Reintroduction of Bill to Protect Frontline Workers Mental Health
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WASHINGTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) applauds the reintroduction of the bipartisan Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act and strongly supports its timely passage into law. Emergency physicians and other health care workers risk their lives every day to protect patients and this bill ensures that our heroes on the frontlines can seek mental health care if they need it, said Mark Rosenberg, DO, MBA, FACEP, president of ACEP. Dr. Lorna Breen s legacy will extend long after this pandemic is over. The bill carrying her name will be a lifeline for emergency physicians who absorb extraordinary levels of grief, anxiety and other stressors but feel their only option is to struggle in silence.
Renowned Enterprise System Expert Dr. Khalil Salman Joins Hyperfine as Director of Clinical Informatics
February 24, 2021 10:00 ET | Source: Hyperfine Hyperfine Guilford, Connecticut, UNITED STATES
Guilford, CT, Feb. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Khalil Salman, M.D. CIIP has joined Hyperfine Research, Inc. as the company’s Director of Clinical Informatics. Dr. Salman is a Radiologist Informaticist and former Surgeon with international recognition for his expertise in imaging informatics and IT applications to improve healthcare delivery and precision medicine. As Director, he is responsible for creating simplicity for users of the company’s Swoop
TM Portable MR imaging system through insightful clinical workflow design and deep integration into existing clinical and enterprise systems.
Mar 4, 2021
Emergency departments may reap financial benefit of targeted innovations
An emergency department innovation program designed for geriatric care resulted in substantial cost savings, researchers found.
With such a program, those researchers, led by Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, found there was a significant association with reduced total costs of care for geriatric patients after being seen by either a transitional care nurse and/or social worker trained to deliver geriatric emergency care. Their study was published in
As pointed out by Hwang and colleagues, there has been an increase in the implementation of geriatric emergency department (GED) innovation programs over the past several years, marked by the creation of the first GED accreditation program in 2018 by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Established in order to recognize hospitals for their high levels of geriatric care, GED accreditation has now been granted to more than 170 emergency departments (EDs) a