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February Grand Rounds
Avant Resources Offers Social Media Training Nashville-based Avant Resources, a national leader in business education leader offering social media policy guidelines and interactive training for managers and professionals, has recently produced an employee training video, “Social Media: Risks and Realities” to help employers and employees safeguard against lawsuits. Seven out of 10 companies surveyed by Avant Resources since 2010 have experienced problems due to social media postings by employees, said employment attorney Brent Ballow, a co-founder and partner in the online company. "More than a third of those companies say they have taken disciplinary action against employees as a result of their social media use," Ballow said. Yet, he added, "Less than half of companies reported having a written social media policy in place and of those, only 11 percent train employees on the policy.” The 24-minute video uses current examples from the news, interviews and re-enactments to vividly demonstrate the consequences of uninformed or careless social media use. It also outlines a policy and best practices to avoid social media problems. The training package includes a customizable written social media policy, quiz and attendance certificate.
STH Faith Community Hosts March Classes for Parish Nurses Saint Thomas Health’s Faith Community Nursing (FCN) Program is designed to help grow and support parish nursing, a specialized area where registered nurses help care for the congregation of a church and promote overall wellness in the community. The program’s second Faith Community Nursing Foundations Course for nurses who are currently serving as or interested in faith community nursing is set for March with a registration deadline of Feb. 24. The 32-hour course will be held over series of days on March 9-10 and 23-24 at Saint Thomas Hospital and is open to registered nurses throughout Kentucky or Tennessee. Class fee is $275 and includes all educational materials and meals. Sponsorship from nurses’ local church leadership is encouraged. Scholarship for financial need is available. For more information, contact Carolyn McKenzie at cmckenzie@stthomas.org or call (615) 222-6603.
MTMC Opens New Cancer Center On Jan. 23, Middle Tennessee Medical Center officially opened its new, state-of-the-art Cancer Center. Previously located in the Bell Street Building on the hospital’s old campus, the Cancer Center at MTMC is now in the Seton Medical Office Building located adjacent to the new hospital. It has its own dedicated entrance and is conveniently located in the same building as Tennessee Oncology, the Center for Breast Health at MTMC and Middle Tennessee Imaging-Murfreesboro. The Cancer Center at MTMC includes a new large bore Philips CT scanner that allows imaging for every size patient; MTMC’s cancer program is just one of 90 nationwide to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer.
Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About! Awards, Honors, Recognitions Three hospitals affiliated with Capella Healthcare – one in Oklahoma and two in Arkansas – are being honored with 2012 Excellence through lnsight awards from HealthStream. The awards will be presented during HealthStream’s annual customer Summit on March 8 in Nashville. Only 6 percent of the 625 medical entities utilizing HealthStream will receive an award in 2012.
Revive, a national healthcare public relations firm with offices in Santa Barbara, Calif. and Nashville, was named one of five finalists for “Boutique Agency of the Year” from industry trade publication, PRWeek. Winners will be announced in March.
Over the last several months, Nashville-based emids has racked up numerous awards. Locally, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce named CEO Saurahb Sinha “2011 Entrepreneur of the Year” and presented the company with NEXT awards in the categories of “Technology Company of the Year” and “Technology Market Mover.” The company also received the “President’s Commendation Award for Advocacy” by the Tennessee HIMSS chapter. Internationally, emids was named an “Emerge 50 Company for Growth” by NASSCOM, a global IT trade association representing over 1200 member companies. Late last year, Humana Communities Benefit announced Alive Hospice as the winner of its $100,000 grant. The funding from Humana allows Alive Hospice to intensify its current educational commitment to the community and address the critical need for better and earlier communication between patients, families and physicians.
Recent Certifications, Accreditations & Commendations
Nashville-based ReadyPoint Systems, an information technology company solely focused on helping hospitals improve the processes that enhance quality and safety of care, has its StandTo™ incident management system was rated highly compliant with the National Incident Management System (NIMS). Baptist Hospital is one of four hospitals in the nation that recently earned recognition from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) of the American Hospital Association for cutting energy consumption – an accomplishment that not only helps the environment but also saves hospitals money.
Three Surgeons Join Saint Thomas Heart Practice Saint Thomas Heart Physician Practice has expanded cardiac capabilities by welcoming three board certified thoracic. The trio, who have been on the medical staff at Saint Thomas Hospital, were previously in private practice.
Nephrology Associates Adds Three, Continues Expansion Renal care provider Nephrology Associates recently added three physicians to its team of kidney disease specialists. Since last summer, the growing practice has added six nephrologists to care for patients throughout Middle Tennessee.
LBMC and Affiliates Grow Staff It has been a busy few months for Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, one of the Southeast’s largest accounting and business consulting firms, as the company adds professionals to the Nashville office of several of its divisions and affiliates. Kyle Engels, Patricia Aguirre, and Mikael Elledge have joined the tax services group. Eric Kimmerling, CPA, has been added a senior accountant and Michelle Ebel, CPA, as a staff accountant to the audit services group, which also recently welcomed Catherine Blythe. Jake Wetzel has joined LBMC Technologies as an OnBase consultant with document and enterprise content management responsibilities. LBMC Managed Security Services, LLC, has named Mark Burnette director, risk services.
Wilcox Named Medical Director of Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine for Baptist
The Wound Care Center has also added two additional physicians to its medical staff, including cardiovascular surgeon Kenneth Laws, MD, and plastic surgeon Kristina O’Shaughnessy, MD. The three surgeons have also received Problem Wound Management and Hyperbaric Medicine certifications from the Diversified Clinical Services.
Tennessee Retina Names Brown Practice Administrator Keith Brown has been named practice administrator of Tennessee Retina, the state’s oldest retina practice. He will oversee operations and management of the practice’s Nashville office at the Centennial Professional Plaza and 13 satellite offices, served by eight board-certified surgeons. Brown has more than 25 years in medical practice business and leadership roles and most recently served as administrator of the Georgia Neurosurgical Institute in Macon, Ga.
HHI Names Industry Vets to New CTO, CIO Posts Late last year, Nashville-based HealthTech Holdings Inc. (HHI), a health information technology holding company that owns Healthcare Management Systems Inc.® (HMS), MEDHOST and Sentry Healthcare Services, appointed two technology veterans to the newly created chief technology officer (CTO) and chief information officer (CIO) positions. CTO Alan MacLamroc will lead initiatives to develop and deploy new products while ensuring the most efficient use of HHI’s outstanding technical resources across its portfolio of companies. MacLamroc has deep experience with HMS’ key technology platforms and is an expert in Agile product development processes and cloud-based products and deployments. MacLamroc has more than 25 years in technology leadership positions. CIO Geoff Roten will leverage HHI’s financial strength and industry expertise to further enhance the clinical and financial applications and IT services that HHI companies provide to healthcare facilities seeking to provide the best patient care possible, achieve meaningful use and operate more efficiently. Roten adds more than 20 years’ experience in the healthcare industry, including leadership roles at Ardent Health Services, Province Healthcare and Community Health Systems.
Cumberland Consulting Promotes Sprenkle, Lopez
Sprenkle holds an undergraduate degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing an MBA at Duke University and is enrolled in the Health Sector Management program, with international studies in Shanghai, London, Dubai, New Delhi, and St Petersburgh.
Bowersock Joins UMC Staff Alisa Bowersock, MD, who is a board eligible obstetrician and gynecologist, has joined the medical staff of Bowersock received her undergraduate degree from Lipscomb University in Nashville and her MPH in Epidemiology from The University of Kentucky College of Public Health in Lexington. She received earned her DO from Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine, Pikeville, Ky. and completed her OB/GYN internship and residency at Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center in Michigan, where she served as the co-chief resident.
LBMC Technologies & Intacct Integrate Cloud Applications LBMC Technologies recently announced it is integrating Intacct’s cloud financial management and accounting applications with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Hyland OnBase. These new integrations will significantly improve the productivity of businesses using Intacct together with Dynamics CRM and OnBase. The companies also announced that LBMC has joined the Intacct-Ready™ Partner Program, a robust ecosystem of pre-integrated cloud computing-based applications. In integrating Intacct with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, LBMC will connect clients’ financials with their customer relationship management tools, which will eliminate paperwork and the manual re-entry of data, plus streamline their order fulfillment process.
Maria Parham Medical Center Joins Duke LifePoint Healthcare Late last year, Maria Parham Medical Center (MPMC) of Henderson, NC, officially joined Duke LifePoint Healthcare, an innovative joint venture of Duke University Health System, Inc. and LifePoint Hospitals®. The agreement between the MPMC Board of Directors and Duke LifePoint to jointly own and operate MPMC was finalized at the end of October 2011. Since the formation of the joint venture, Duke LifePoint Healthcare has acquired MPMC, Person Memorial Hospital in Roxboro, NC, and the North Carolina cardiac catheterization operations of MedCath Partners, LLC, now known as DLP Cardiac Partners. Additionally, in October, Duke LifePoint signed a memorandum of understanding with its first Virginia hospital – a potential joint venture with Twin County Regional Healthcare (TCRH) to share ownership and operations of the hospital.
Qualifacts Celebrates Banner Year In January, Nashville-based Qualifacts Systems Inc., the largest provider of Software-as-a-Service Enterprise Electronic Health Records for the behavioral health and human services market, announced today that the company achieved record financial and operational results in 2011 with a 32-percent increase in sales over 2010. Other highlights from 2011 include:
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Mary Jo Lewis, CEO of HighPoint Health System, a four-hospital system headquartered in Gallatin, has been named to the Becker's Hospital Review’s list, "291 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know.”
Architect Tom Piland, AIA, a principal and project manager for Nashville-based HFR Design (Hart Freeland Roberts) who works on a wide range of healthcare and general projects, has been named a director on the Middle Tennessee Board of the American Institute of Architects. His term began last month and continues until January 2014.
Shatita Daniels of Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain’s Healthcare Consulting Group has earned the title Certified
Mark Tedder, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon and prominent leader in Ventricular Assist Device procedures, specializes in treating valvular heart disease and was recently named surgical director of the new VAD Center. He received his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine where he also completed his general surgery residency and his internship in cardiac and thoracic surgery.
David Glassford, MD, earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch Hospital where he also completed his internship and residency in general surgery. He also completed a fellowship at Ochsner Foundation Hospital.
David Yandell, MD, attended medical school at the University of Kansas. He did his residency in general surgery at the University of Louisville and internship in thoracic surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He completed fellowships in vascular surgery at the University of Kansas, thoracic surgery at Cedar-Sinai and endovascular surgery at Stanford Hospital.
Anisa Iona Nayeem, MD, is a board certified nephrologist, who is working out of the Winchester and Tullahoma offices. Previously, she served as attending nephrologist at Summit Nephrology Medical Group in Grass Valley, Calif. She was also a hospitalist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and a staff physician for the kidney transplant division at the University of California-Davis in Sacramento. Nayeem earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a clinical fellowship with the division of nephrology, an internship and residency all at the University of California, San Francisco.
Shilpa Reddy Carlson, MD, is serving patients at the Springfield office. Previously, she completed a nephrology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she conducted research on familial hyperaldosteronism. Board certified in internal medicine, Carlson completed her residency at VCU and earned her medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Mo. Returning to Middle Tennessee, Carlson’s undergraduate degree is from Vanderbilt.
Saadia Kahn, MD, will care for patients at the practice’s Lebanon location. Previously, she served as a nephrology fellow at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Her medical experience extends to psychiatry work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and substance abuse research at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Birmingham. Kahn she received her medical and bachelor’s degrees from Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan. She completed her internal medicine residency at UAB.
Cardiovascular surgeon Brian Wilcox, MD, has been named medical director of the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Center at Baptist Hospital. His responsibilities include providing clinical oversight for services delivered at the center in addition to strategic oversight of performance metrics, facilitation of the continuum of care and development of growth strategies.
Cumberland Consulting Group recently announced the promotion of Jessa Sprenkle to executive consultant. She joined the firm in 2007 and has focused on requirement analysis, design of custom software solutions and HIT implementations for health systems nationwide.
Lindsay Lopez, who has been with the company since 2005, was also promoted to executive consultant. She manages Enterprise Electronic Medical Records implementation projects for a broad range of healthcare provider organizations nationwide. Lopez holds an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and is certified in Epic Systems Corporation’s EpicCare Inpatient Clinical Documentation module.
University Medical Center in Lebanon. Part of the Women’s Health Center medical practice, she is a diplomat of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetrics and Gynecology, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Christian Medical Association. 
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