Effective Jan. 1, providers from UBMC Emergency Medicine are staffing the exigency department, and a squad from Buffalo-Niagara Hospitalists is managing inpatient care, astatine Mount St. Mary’s Hospital successful Lewiston. The 2 groups are slated to facilitate some inpatient attraction and exigency attraction astatine the caller Lockport Memorial Hospital, a field of Mount St. Mary’s, erstwhile it opens aboriginal this year.
Buffalo-Niagara Hospitalists, led by Eric Koch, DO, has worked with Catholic Health’s Kenmore Mercy Hospital for much than 15 years.
“We are precise grateful for being fixed the accidental to bring our expertise to Niagara County,” Koch said. “Our squad has been recognized arsenic a person successful prime hospital-based attraction successful Western New York, and we are excited to connection precocious prime attraction and an fantabulous diligent acquisition to the patients astatine Mount St. Mary’s and Lockport campuses.”
Dr. Colin McMahon, who presently serves arsenic main hospitalist astatine Eastern Niagara Hospital, volition proceed providing attraction there, but besides plans to articulation the Buffalo-Niagara Hospitalists squad successful providing attraction astatine Mount St. Mary’s and the caller Lockport hospital.
UBMD Emergency Medicine, already successful spot astatine ENH since 2019, volition grow its beingness successful Niagara County nether the enactment of Dr. Jennifer Rogers, who volition service arsenic the group’s aesculapian manager for Mount St. Mary’s Hospital. Rogers volition proceed to nonstop attraction astatine ENH until the installation closes and exigency attraction is directed to the caller Lockport hospital.
“UBMD Emergency Medicine is honored to grow its work to the occidental portion of the county,” Rogers said. “Our board-certified providers person made large strides successful enhancing attraction crossed each of the facilities successful Western New York wherever we serve. We look guardant to continuing that stellar contented astatine the Mount St. Mary’s campus.”
C.J. Urlaub, Mount St. Mary’s president and Catholic Health elder vice president of strategical partnerships, integration and attraction transportation Niagara County, said “this is an breathtaking alteration for our organization. We are precise grateful for the exigency services that person been provided by Team Health, who volition proceed to unit our different Catholic Health exigency departments. At this time, however, it makes consciousness for Mount St. Mary’s to supply a much seamless attack to exigency attraction with these 2 groups successful spot crossed each of our facilities successful Niagara County. This volition not lone heighten the continuum of attraction for patients, but beryllium an added payment for EMS providers.”
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