Recruitment Update

WEEK OF JANUARY 11th, 2016

Recruitment update

Dr. Kittaka, Primary Care CMO and Brooke Burns, Primary Care Director for the Adena Medical Group are very pleased to announce that Andrea Howard, FNP has signed an employment agreement for Hillsboro Family Practice- Nurse Practitioner. Andrea is an experienced Nurse Practitioner who currently is practicing at Wilmington Physician Group, LLC. Previous to her care provider role at Wilmington Physician Group, Andrea worked at Team Health as an Emergency Medicine Nurse Practitioner, and served as the RN Manager of ICU and Inpatient Case Manager at Clinton Memorial Hospital. Andrea has been an RN since 2006, and completed her Nurse Practitioner training in 2013 at Otterbein University.Andrea and her family live in the Hillsboro community, and she looks forward to serving as an Adena care provider - close to home - at our new Hillsboro location.

Andrea will start on leap year (2/29) and work out of Adena’s Greenfield Family Practice office until our Adena Hillsboro facility opens in June 2016.

Patient Centered Medical Home

Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) would like to take a moment to tell you about a change in navigation.In an effort to improve quality and coordination of patient care, PCMH navigators will be relocated to a central location within the Western Wellness Building.This will enable the team to manage more of our high and priority risk population.PCMH navigators will continue to work with the primary care provider team in coordinating/managing care gap opportunities.Please continue to check the weekly CMO update, as we will provide more information about improvements we are making for you and your patients.

Recognition

We would like to recognize Dr. Jennifer Davis on her efforts to improve the health of patients and our community.She has taken the initiative to start a walking program, “Walk with a Doc,” here in Chillicothe.Please see the attached article for more.Thank you, Dr. Davis for starting this in 2016. We look forward to hearing some stories that come from this program.

OB/Gyn Update

OB/GYN Update: The providers and staff of Adena OB/GYN would like to welcome Natasha Renault, Certified Nurse Midwife to their clinic.Natasha started with the office on Jan. 4, 2016.Please join us in welcoming her to the Adena Family.With the departure of Lesley Manson, CNP and Dr. Linda Ross, the OB office is actively recruiting.We are happy to report that we have extended a contract to Dr. Chris Nnoli.Pending an agreement, his tentative start date will be in late summer 2016.

“If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.”-- B.D. Schiers

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