Advanced ICU Care® names
Mary
Jo Gorman, M.D., MBA as CEO
Mary Jo
Gorman joined Advanced ICU Care as chief executive officer,
bringing an experienced hand in developing and growing
healthcare companies to her new role. Previously, she
served as chief medical officer for IPC-The Hospitalist
Company, the largest provider of hospitalist services in the
United States. Under her leadership, physician staff grew to
400 hospitalists across the country. Dr.
Gorman founded Inpatient Care Group in 1996,
the first hospitalist practice in St. Louis, which merged with
IPC in 1999. Dr. Gorman also founded and serves as president
of Critical Care Services, Inc., providing
around-the-clock intensivist services in-house at two
community hospitals. She has practiced as an intensivist and a
hospitalist, and has held numerous leadership positions at
DePaul Health Center in St. Louis, including chairperson of
Critical Care Medicine.
Tim Mayleben appointed to
Advanced ICU
Care’s
board of directors
Advanced ICU
Care appointed Timothy M. Mayleben as an independent member of
its board of directors, adding to the broad expertise of the
company’s directors and helping to sharpen its strategic
focus.
With nearly 20 years experience in
growing entrepreneurial companies, Mayleben is an advisor to
life science and healthcare companies through his investment
and advisory firm, ElMa Advisors. He also serves on several
boards including Nighthawk Radiology Services (Nasdaq: NHWK).
Previously, Mayleben served as chief operating officer of
Esperion Therapeutics, which was acquired by Pfizer in 2004
and is now a division of Pfizer Global Research and
Development.
Mayleben joins current
directors Mary Jo Gorman, M.D.; David Schopp, president and
COO of Advanced ICU Care; Tim Peterson, managing partner of
Arboretum Ventures; and Bruce Quade, managing director at
Catalyst Capital Management.
Advanced ICU Care nurses
work towards
100% CCRN®
certification
Advanced ICU Care is proud of its
nurses, who are quickly working towards becoming 100%
CCRN-certified. The 15-member team expects to be fully
certified by the first quarter of 2007, a distinction held by
few nursing staffs. CCRN-certified nurses have the advanced
knowledge necessary to care for the complex needs of acute and
critically ill patients. This certification, demonstrating a
tremendous level of expertise in critical care medicine,
reflects the dedication of Advanced ICU Care’s nurses to their
chosen specialty. Averaging 20 years experience in critical
care nursing, Advanced ICU Care nurses provide top-notch
clinical skills as well as ongoing guidance and support for
the local bedside nurses.
Advanced ICU Care adds Diane Asmus
as
Administrative Assistant
Diane Asmus
joined Advanced ICU Care as an administrative assistant,
providing administrative support to the company’s management
team. Prior to her current role, Asmus served as an
administrative assistant for the information technology
department at Citigroup. She has nearly 20 years experience in
administrative support.
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Our hospital partners’ eICUs performed
as well or better than other eICU facilities in nearly all of the
seven major ICU performance benchmark criteria. Key to their
performance is the implementation of clear clinical processes, as
well as the focus, collaboration and patient-centered communication
between the local bedside staff and the Advanced ICU Care
intensivists and nurses, led by Dr. Isabelle Kopec, vice president
of clinical services; Dr. Dellice Dickhaus, eICU medical director;
and Christi Longnecker, BSN, JD, CCRN, eICU nurse manager.
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Saint Clare’s
Hospital named one of nation’s
100 most wired
hospitals
Saint Clare’s Hospital secured a debut spot on Hospitals & Health Networks’ 2006 list of the 100
Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems, based on the results
of the annual Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study. The
survey asks hospitals to report how they use information
technology to address five key areas: safety and quality,
customer service, business processes, workforce, and public
health and safety.
According to Hospital &
Health Network’s July cover story, the nation’s 100 Most
Wired hospitals and health systems are improving quality,
streamlining processes and driving financial returns by
investing in technology. Among other areas, the Most Wired
facilities employ a broader set of telemedicine services.
Saint Clare’s Hospital first began using Advanced ICU Care’s
eICU solution in January of this year.
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“Angela Chapman, RN, BSN, who has
worked at St. Mary’s for seven years, says she was wary of the eICU
service at first, but has since found it to be a convenient
resource.
‘It’s great to
have somebody there [at Advanced ICU Care’s eICU Operations Center]
to call and say, “Do you see what I see?” You don’t have to page
anybody; you don’t have to wait for anyone to call you back. They’re
[the eICU nurses] just sitting there waiting to help you.’” (HC
Pro’s Recruitment & Retention Monthy, September,
2006).
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Advanced ICU Care is a medical
service company that provides high-quality remote critical care to
patients in the intensive care units (ICU) of community hospitals. Through a technology platform developed by VISICU, local hospital ICUs are
linked with Advanced ICU Care’s eICU® Operations Center in St. Louis,
Missouri. This operations center is staffed by highly trained,
board-certified intensivists (critical care medicine physicians) and
critical care nurses who together have cared for more than 30,000
patients. Collectively, Advanced ICU Care’s medical staff brings more than
75 years of clinical experience as well as expertise in hospital
compliance initiatives, educational programs, and the development and
implementation of protocol and care pathways.
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