(Deming) – Mimbres Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home in Deming has started a hospitalist program in response to a health care market analysis on how to better serve the southwest region of New Mexico.
Hospitalists are described as medical professionals whose primary focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities reportedly include patient care, as well as teaching, research and leadership related to hospital medicine.
Mimbres Memorial officials said the hospitalist program started December 23rd, with Sara Campbell, a board certified Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Jon Perry, a certified Masters of Physician Assistant Studies, as the two healthcare providers staffing the program.
Campbell, a healthcare provider for eight years, has been in the Deming community since February of 2011.
Perry is relocating from Klammath Falls, Oregon, and has been a healthcare provider for over eighteen years, in both hospital and long-term care settings. Perry also is fluent in Spanish.
Reportedly, many patients are referred to hospitalists by their primary care physicians for treatment during the duration of their hospitalization and then returned to the care of their regular doctor after discharge.
Mimbres CEO Steve Westenhofer said their hospitalist program will assist in a patient’s smooth and speedy recovery by following up on their tests and adjusting treatment plans throughout the day.
He added that the program is available to providers in the area, but any physician with medical staff privileges can still see their own patients should they choose to do so.
Hospitalists are described as medical professionals whose primary focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities reportedly include patient care, as well as teaching, research and leadership related to hospital medicine.
Mimbres Memorial officials said the hospitalist program started December 23rd, with Sara Campbell, a board certified Adult Health Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Jon Perry, a certified Masters of Physician Assistant Studies, as the two healthcare providers staffing the program.
Campbell, a healthcare provider for eight years, has been in the Deming community since February of 2011.
Perry is relocating from Klammath Falls, Oregon, and has been a healthcare provider for over eighteen years, in both hospital and long-term care settings. Perry also is fluent in Spanish.
Reportedly, many patients are referred to hospitalists by their primary care physicians for treatment during the duration of their hospitalization and then returned to the care of their regular doctor after discharge.
Mimbres CEO Steve Westenhofer said their hospitalist program will assist in a patient’s smooth and speedy recovery by following up on their tests and adjusting treatment plans throughout the day.
He added that the program is available to providers in the area, but any physician with medical staff privileges can still see their own patients should they choose to do so.
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