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Surgicalist program model conceived to respond to critical community needs
Sacramento, CA, July 14, 2021 – Kern Medical, a leading Central Valley healthcare organization, today announced it will expand its relationship with Sacramento-based SAMGI (Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc.) to include a comprehensive surgicalist program that will offer key general surgery services currently unavailable to the Kern community. Under the terms of the agreement, SAMGI board-certified surgical teams will provide vascular and various cancer surgeries along with state-of-the-art minimally invasive robotic surgeries. Additionally, SAMGI will work in conjunction with Kern Medical to develop and implement a much-needed surgical residency program. During its nearly 3-year tenure at Kern Medical, SAMGI has provided dedicated, in-house teams of board-certified trauma and acute care surgeons who deliver 24/7/365 surgical care to patients entering the Emergency Department. Additionally, SAMGI also offers a fully staffed follow-up clinic for post-discharge care to patients.
“As a public hospital deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of the people of our community, we are keenly aware that they are under-served in a number of essential non-emergency surgical areas, “said Scott Thygerson, President of Hospital and Clinic Operations. “Consequently, patients must seek those services outside of their own community. By working with SAMGI, a valued, proven partner of ours, we will be providing important high-quality health services to our community, further affirming Kern Medical’s commitment to our population.”
“We are thrilled to be growing our partnership with Kern,” said SAMGI President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS. “While we have earned a reputation and leadership position as the premier provider of emergency surgicalist programs, SAMGI has broad and deep experience in a host of general surgical areas. Our basic approach to surgeries is equally viable and powerful in general surgical venues. And I am especially excited about the role we will play as program director and teachers in helping develop Kern’s surgical residency program for new surgeons.”
“Core to SAMGI’s methodology is a systematic, personalized approach to care that we believe advances the practice of medicine,” added Thygerson. “It is a cornerstone to the SAMGI acute care surgical model that we look forward to their bringing to Kern’s residency program and, ultimately to our community.”
About Kern Medical
Kern Medical is a leading Central Valley health care organization, with a 222-bed hospital, a comprehensive offering of primary care and specialty clinics, and a large body of highly skilled doctors, nurses, technicians and other health-care providers. With the area’s only level II trauma center and teaching hospital, many of Kern’s services are unequaled in the region. Its volunteers, charitable foundation, and employees eagerly support its mission of health and safety.
About SAMGI
Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc. (SAMGI) is setting the standard for surgicalist programs. Founded in 1996, SAMGI is a leader in providing board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers and medical directors for in-house trauma, acute care, orthopedic, neurosurgery, urology and general surgery services for communities and hospital systems. Peer reviewed results published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons have demonstrated that SAMGI’s evidence-based, care standardized programs deliver long-term excellence in patient care and optimization of overall hospital performance by improving hospital workflow, efficiency and patient outcomes. Learn more at: www.samgi.com
For more information contact:
At Kern Medical Center
Sally Selby
Director, Marketing & Communications
sally.selby@kernmedical.com
(661) 859-6008
At SAMGI:
Chris Brown
Chief Sales Officer
Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc.
(916) 621-6440
Sacramento, CA, February 11, 2021 — Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc. (SAMGI), the pioneer and leader in hospital surgicalist programs, today announced the appointment of Glenn Koh, MD as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Koh earned his MBBS at the National University of Singapore and served his residency in the Drexel University Easton Hospital Program. He has been with SAMGI since 2015 and served in several capacities as a surgeon, Medical Director and Associate CMO, as well as President of Medical Staff and Trauma Medical Director at SAMGI client sites Sutter Health and Kern Medical. Prior to joining SAMGI, Dr. Koh held surgical leadership positions with Kaiser Permanente.
“In his new position, Glenn joins the SAMGI leadership group and will work to support our surgical teams with the tools they need to ensure our cohesive, evidence-driven approach continues to provide excellent patient care and delivers exceptional value to SAMGI’s client hospitals,” said SAMGI CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.
SAMGI has also announced the appointment of Tammy Hager, MBA as Executive Director of Physician Recruitment and Privileging. Ms. Hager comes to SAMGI from Medical Marketing Service where she focused on marketing and recruiting physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of HR and Talent Selection for Mercy Health. Ms. Hager is a Fellow with both the Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment and the Advisory Board Company. She is a Certified Medical Staff Recruiter by the American Academy of Medical Management and holds a Certificate in Professional Leadership from The Batten Leadership Institute at Hollins University. Ms. Hager earned her B.S. and MBA from Liberty University with an emphasis in healthcare management.
About SAMGI
Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc. (SAMGI) is setting the standard for surgicalist programs. Founded in 1996, SAMGI is a leader in providing board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers and medical directors for in-house trauma, acute care, orthopedic, neurosurgery, urology and general surgery services for communities and hospital systems. Peer reviewed results published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons have demonstrated that SAMGI’s evidence-based, care standardized programs deliver long-term excellence in patient care and optimization of overall hospital performance by improving hospital workflow, efficiency and patient outcomes. Learn more at: www.samgi.com
For more information contact:
Chris Brown
Chief Sales Officer
Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc.
(916) 621-6440
Sacramento, CA., November 19, 2020 — Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc. (SAMGI), a leader in providing 24/7 emergency surgery care teams, today announced that Chris Brown has joined the company as Chief Sales Officer. Chris will be responsible for business development, marketing and seamless integration with SAMGI’s Operations Team. The company also announced that Michael Manion has joined the organization as its Director of Business Development. Mike will work directly with Chris and will focus on national business growth and solidifying channel ownership.
Chris Brown brings to SAMGI a proven record of achievement as a healthcare industry sales and marketing leader. During his career, he has served as vice president for start-ups, venture-backed and publicly traded companies including Zynex Medical, Safeop Surgical, Nuvasive/Impulse Monitoring, Intelistaff Healthcare and STERIS Corp/AMSCO. He currently serves as a board advisor to companies in the medical device, medical services and HIT spaces. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Mike Manion comes to SAMGI with extensive sales experience in the surgicalist space. Prior to joining SAMGI, Mike spent the past 15 years working in business development roles at TeamHealth and Ob Hospitalist Group where he was responsible for pipeline development and driving sales. He has earned countless “High Achiever” sales awards including President’s Club honors in three consecutive years. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville.
“I am thrilled by the addition of such high caliber sales and marketing professionals to our team,” said SAMGI CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS. “Present circumstances in healthcare along with continuing acceptance of the surgicalist model offer us not only significant growth opportunities but will also allow us to fill critical care needs for current and future hospital partners. Chris and Mike are the ideal tandem to meet the growing demand for our high quality, cost-effective trailblazing model.”
About SAMGI
Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc. (SAMGI) is the surgical hospitalist company. Founded in 1996, SAMGI is a leader in providing board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers, and medical directors for in-house trauma, acute care, orthopedic, neurosurgery, urology and general surgery services for communities and hospital systems. Peer reviewed results published Journal of the American College of Surgeons have demonstrated that SAMGI’s evidence-based, care standardized programs deliver long-term excellence in patient care and the ability to optimize overall hospital performance by improving hospital workflow, efficiency and patient outcomes. Learn more at: www.samgi.com
For more information contact:
Chris Brown
Chief Sales Officer
Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc.
(916) 621-6440
I have on more than one occasion started to draft a message to our group acknowledging that what happened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and many other black Americans is utterly intolerable in a civil society, and confirming that Surgical Affiliates supports and stands with the black community.
As a company committed to providing care to vulnerable patient populations – regardless of race or ethnicity – I believe it is important to vocally state our position and publicly affirm our intentions. So let me state the following without equivocation:
We stand for social equality and basic civil and human rights for all people but at this pivotal moment, reaffirm our commitment in support of those disproportionately persecuted simply due to the color of their skin.
Our group holds this truth as self-evident, and no type of racism will be tolerated here. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and diversity, and we are specifically committed to ensuring our workforce remains diverse and sensitive to discrimination faced by our patients as well as our own employees.
Injury does not discriminate.
And as the leading American Surgicalist Group…neither do we.
We reaffirm our commitment to delivering compassionate and expert care to any patient regardless of race. And we reaffirm our commitment to a workforce that is similarly diverse. We support and endorse the ongoing effort to eliminate systemic racism and fully endorse social equality and tolerance for all.
Lynette A. Scherer, MD, FACS
Chief Executive Officer
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Surgical Affiliates, a leading provider of emergency in-house trauma, orthopedic, neurosurgery and general surgical services for hospital systems, has announced its partnership with Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville, Calif. The partnership will enhance emergency orthopedic services at Banner Lassen by providing comprehensive, 24/7 emergency orthopedic surgical services.
Through its partnership with Surgical Affiliates, Banner Lassen Medical Center joins a growing number of hospitals nationwide implementing a surgical hospitalist model of care that ensures delivery of exceptional, round-the-clock emergency surgical services.
“We’re extremely pleased to once again be offering comprehensive orthopedic care in the community,” said Banner Lassen CEO Sandy Dugger. “Our new team of orthopedic surgeons will provide residents with convenient access to orthopedic medical appointments, consultations, planned surgeries and emergency surgeries at our hospital.”
Surgical Affiliates will provide an enhanced array of surgical services including a dedicated, on-duty team of board-certified orthopedic surgeons providing 24/7 emergency surgical care to patients entering the emergency room; this experienced team will also provide care for in-house orthopedic emergencies and inpatient orthopedic consultations. In addition, a fully staffed follow-up clinic will offer post-discharge care to patients through their recovery. Patients will also have access to comprehensive outpatient orthopedic services at the Banner Health Clinic, provided by the highly credentialed team of surgeons.
“The exceptional group of leaders and providers at Banner Lassen has allowed us to implement our team in record time and speaks to their underlying commitment to this community – and to us as a partner – in delivering orthopedic surgery care to the Susanville community,” said Surgical Affiliates President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.
The experienced orthopedic team at Banner Lassen will implement evidenced-based guidelines in delivering a systematic, personalized approach to care that is a cornerstone of the Surgical Affiliates model. Additionally, Surgical Affiliates will support the orthopedic team with experienced management services to optimize workflow and alleviate administrative responsibilities from the clinical teams.
About Surgical Affiliates
Surgical Affiliates is a national leader in surgical hospitalist care with published, peer-reviewed results in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons that demonstrate how they benefit hospitals, clinicians, and patients by providing quality 24/7 emergency surgical care. The team is comprised of a dynamic group of experienced, board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers, and medical directors. Programs offered provide strategic, structured surgical programs that encompass Acute Care, Trauma, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics, and fuse with a hospital’s ICU, Emergency Department, and Medical Hospitalist Program to ensure quality of care and proper workflow throughout these departments. For more information, visit: www.samgi.com
About Banner Lassen Medical Center
Opened in 1883 as Lassen County Hospital, Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville, Calif., is a part of Banner Health, a nonprofit healthcare system with 28 hospitals in six states. Banner Lassen offers obstetrics, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, imaging services, rehabilitation services and emergency care. In addition to the hospital campus, Banner also operates three clinics in the Susanville area. For more information, visit: www.BannerHealth.com/Lassen
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 14, 2018/PRNewswire/ — Surgical Affiliates, a leading provider of emergency in-house trauma, orthopedic, neurosurgery, and general surgical services for hospital systems, announces its partnership with McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, MI, today. This partnership will enhance patient care in providing 24/7 acute care and trauma surgical services at McLaren Oakland, a Level II-verified trauma center that provides care to patients in the greater Pontiac and Oakland County community.
For more information, visit: www.samgi.com
The new partnership will facilitate McLaren Oakland’s longstanding mission of providing the highest level of emergency surgical care by ensuring patients have 24/7 access to an in-house team of fellowship-trained acute care and trauma surgeons supported by Surgical Affiliates’ depth of expertise in emergency surgical care.
“We are thrilled to have a new partnership with Surgical Affiliates, as their fellowship-trained trauma surgeons will be in-house providing real-time patient assessments instead of a patient waiting for an on-call surgeon to drive in and assess the patient,” stated Margaret Dimond, Ph.D., President and CEO of McLaren Oakland. “The new in-house trauma surgeons will deliver the most appropriate care for the needs of our complex community.”
Surgical Affiliates will provide an enhanced array of surgical services including an in-house team of board-certified acute care and trauma surgeons highly trained in implementing evidence-based guidelines to provide 24/7 care to patients. This experienced surgical team will deliver a systematic, personalized approach to care that is a core benefit of the Surgical Affiliates acute care surgical model. Also, a dedicated medical director will provide support and leadership to the surgical team while ensuring high-quality standards and efficient clinic operations, and a fully-staffed follow-up clinic will be provided to offer post-discharge care to patients.
“Dr. Dimond is an incredibly decisive CEO – she immediately recognized how a partnership with SAMGI could raise the bar of trauma care for the region. Working with her leadership team, we have enjoyed outstanding local surgeon and APP recruitment to the trauma and acute care surgery service,” said Surgical Affiliates President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.
About McLaren Oakland
McLaren Oakland is a 328-bed medical center that provides primary and specialty healthcare services to the greater Pontiac and Oakland County community. Founded in 1953, McLaren Oakland has grown to a comprehensive medical community that includes two outpatient facilities as well as an inpatient hospital in Pontiac providing a range of clinical services including emergency and trauma care, cardiology, cancer services, minimally invasive robotic surgery and orthopedic services. As a Level II verified trauma center and accredited stroke center, McLaren Oakland also offers numerous AOA- approved residency and fellowship programs.
About Surgical Affiliates
Surgical Affiliates is a national leader in surgical hospitalist care with published, peer-reviewed results demonstrating benefits to hospitals, clinicians, and patients by providing quality 24/7 emergency surgical care. The team is composed of an experienced group of board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers, and medical directors providing strategic surgical programs in Acute Care, Trauma, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics.
Surgical Affiliates has established a new partnership with Kern Medical, a Level II trauma center in Bakersfield, California, to enhance patient care in providing 24/7 acute care and trauma surgical services. The new partnership supports Kern Medical’s commitment to providing the highest quality of emergency surgical services – as the only trauma center serving patients in California’s southern Central Valley– and illustrates our depth of expertise in providing hospitals with an advanced acute care surgical model that delivers the highest level of acute care and trauma surgical services to patients.
Kern Medical is a leading Central Valley healthcare organization featuring a 222-bed hospital offering a comprehensive range of primary care and specialty clinics. As the area’s only trauma center and teaching hospital, Kern Medical provides services that are unique in the region. As part of the partnership, Surgical Affiliates will provide Kern Medical with a surgical hospitalist program delivering an enhanced suite of surgical services including a dedicated, in-house team of board-certified trauma and acute care surgeons who will implement evidence-based guidelines in providing round-the-clock care to patients entering the Emergency Department.
In establishing a highly
qualified team to provide emergency surgical support, surgeries can be performed more quickly – leading to improved outcomes for patients and hospitals. Also, the accessible, high-quality trauma and acute care programs we help to establish enable hospitals such as Kern Medical to create a culture of “yes,” typically reducing the need for local patients to be transferred to other facilities to receive treatment for serious conditions requiring prompt surgery.
The surgical team at Kern Medical will provide patients with a systematic, personalized approach to care that is the cornerstone of the Surgical Affiliates acute care surgical model. A core benefit of our surgical hospitalist programs is that our highly qualified surgeons manage patients as a team in accordance with evidence-based guidelines, reducing variations in care and helping to standardize best practices across our programs. This standardization of care ensures that every patient receives the highest level of care available and leads to improved patient outcomes and better performance for hospitals. Also, Kern Medical’s experienced surgical team will be supported and led by a dedicated medical director focused on maintaining high-quality standards and efficient clinic operations, alleviating administrative duties from the surgical team and allowing surgeons to focus more of their time on patient care.
“Our partnership with Kern
Medical goes beyond the provision of trauma and emergency surgical care – which is core to the mission of Kern Medical. We are also committed to ensuring the service will support the graduate medical education programs at Kern Medical,” said Surgical Affiliates President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 15th, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Surgical Affiliates, a leading provider of in-house emergency surgical services for hospitals and healthcare systems, and Kern Medical of Bakersfield, Calif., a Level II Trauma Center, have announced their partnership to enhance patient care in providing 24/7 acute care and trauma surgical services.
For more information, visit: www.samgi.com
Kern Medical’s partnership with Surgical Affiliates supports the hospital’s commitment to providing the highest quality of emergency surgical care as the only trauma center serving patients in California’s southern Central Valley. Through the partnership, Kern Medical’s excellent standard of care will be enhanced by ensuring patients have 24/7 access to the highest level of acute care and trauma surgical services supported by Surgical Affiliates’ proven expertise in emergency surgical care.
“We are excited to welcome this new team to Kern Medical. As the only major trauma center between Los Angeles and Fresno, it is our privilege to provide our patients up-to-the-minute, lifesaving care in times of immense need,” said Kern Medical Chief Executive Officer Russell Judd. “Our partnership with Surgical Affiliates will only strengthen our trauma center and improve our patient experience overall.”
The enhanced suite of surgical services to be provided by Surgical Affiliates includes a dedicated, in-house team of board-certified trauma and acute care surgeons who will implement evidence-based guidelines in providing round-the-clock care to patients entering the Emergency Department as well as a fully staffed follow-up clinic offering post-discharge care to patients. The surgical team will provide patients with a systematic, personalized approach to care that is the cornerstone of the Surgical Affiliates acute care surgical model. In addition, Kern Medical’s experienced surgical teams will be supported and led by a dedicated medical director focused on maintaining high-quality standards and efficient clinic operations.
“Our partnership with Kern Medical goes beyond the provision of trauma and emergency surgical care – which is core to the mission of Kern Medical. We are also committed to ensuring the service will support the graduate medical education programs at Kern Medical,” said Surgical Affiliates President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.
Kern Medical is a leading Central Valley healthcare organization featuring a 222-bed public hospital offering a comprehensive range of primary care and specialty clinics. As the area’s only trauma center and teaching hospital, Kern Medical provides services that are unique in the region.
About Surgical Affiliates
Surgical Affiliates is a national leader in surgical hospitalist care with published, peer-reviewed results in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons that demonstrate how they benefit hospitals, clinicians, and patients by providing quality 24/7 emergency surgical care. The team is composed of a dynamic group of experienced, board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers, and medical directors. Programs offered to provide strategic, structured surgical programs that encompass Acute Care, Trauma, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics, and fuse with a hospital’s ICU, Emergency Department, and Medical Hospitalist Program to ensure the quality of care and proper workflow throughout these departments.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Surgical Affiliates, a leading provider of emergency in-house trauma, orthopedic, neurosurgery, and general surgical services for hospital systems, has announced its partnership with two hospitals in the Christus Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, Texas. The partnership will enhance emergency orthopedic services at both Christus Spohn Hospital South and Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline in providing 24/7 emergency orthopedic surgical services to adult and pediatric patients.
Through its partnership with Surgical Affiliates, Christus Spohn Health System continues its mission of providing high-quality emergency orthopedic surgical care and joins a growing number of health systems on the forefront of the surgical hospitalist model of care that ensures delivery of exceptional, round-the-clock emergency surgical services.
Christus Spohn Health System Market President Justin Doss said the strategic partnership with Surgical Affiliates allows Christus Spohn to continue delivering high-quality care while expanding regional services to include 24/7 orthopedic coverage and supporting transfers into the region from outlying facilities. “We’re focused on developing new programs such as this to provide our patients with the highest level of care available,” said Doss, who provides leadership for strategic operations in a 12-county region.
The enhanced surgical services provided by Surgical Affiliates will equip both Christus Spohn Hospital South and Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline with a dedicated, on-duty team of board-certified orthopedic surgeons providing 24/7 emergency surgical care to patients entering the Emergency Department as well as care for in-house orthopedic emergencies and inpatient orthopedic consultation. A fully staffed follow-up clinic provided at both locations will offer post-discharge care to patients through their convalescence.
“Our surgicalist model aligns well with Christus Spohn’s focus on quality of care, and this new partnership will enhance the experience for both patients and providers,” said Surgical Affiliates President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.
The experienced orthopedic teams will implement evidenced-based guidelines in delivering a systematic, personalized approach to care that is a hallmark of the Surgical Affiliates model. Additionally, Surgical Affiliates will support the orthopedic teams at both hospital locations with experienced management services to optimize workflow and alleviate administrative responsibilities from the clinical teams.
“We are delighted to partner with the Christus system in providing them with a team-based, specialized and regional solution for both trauma and emergency orthopedic surgery,” said Dr. Scherer.
About Surgical Affiliates
Surgical Affiliates is a national leader in surgical hospitalist care with published, peer-reviewed results in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons that demonstrate how they benefit hospitals, clinicians, and patients by providing quality 24/7 emergency surgical care. The team is composed of a dynamic group of experienced, board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers, and medical directors. Programs offered to provide strategic, structured surgical programs that encompass Acute Care, Trauma, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics, and fuse with a hospital’s ICU, Emergency Department, and Medical Hospitalist Program to ensure the quality of care and proper workflow throughout these departments.
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