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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A new care facility is now open to seniors in the Hostess City.
Dedicated Senior Medical Center is a personalized facility for seniors to receive all around care from a physician.
The new office provides more than just a doctor’s visit. Patients like Hans Derkinderen are able to take part in social events and personalized treatments options.
Look out for the opening of the highly decorated Dedicated Rockwell Center. The provides care for thousands of underserved seniors in the Charlotte North Carolina. There will be at least 20,000 at-risk seniors in our area needing affordable care. The Queen City isn’t alone because there are seven new Dedicated Senior Medical Centers opening in North Carolina.
ChenMed, a leading senior-focused primary care practice, today celebrated the grand opening of its hundredth center transforming care of the neediest populations. The newest Dedicated Senior Medical Center is the first of two serving aging Charlotte residents, and the first of eight opening rapidly throughout North Carolina to provide affordable VIP care that delivers better health to some 20,000 Medicare-eligible seniors statewide.
A chain of medical clinics that specialize in treating older patients, often with low incomes and multiple chronic health conditions, is coming to five locations across the Triad.
ChenMed confirmed Monday that it plans to open in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, and Burlington, as well as Charlotte and Fayetteville. ChenMed takes part in the Medicare Advantage program, with Medicare paying a fixed amount each month for patients enrolled in Medicare Advantage Plans....
The company makes money by holding down costs, largely through avoiding costly hospitalizations and emergency-room visits, E.W. Tibbs, the company's regional vice president for dedicated medical centers in the Carolinas and Georgia, explained in a telephone interview with the Triad Business Journal. By seeing fewer patients but seeing them more often, ChenMed helps avoid costly hospitalizations and emergency-room visits. Its caregivers can see a patient 40 to 50 times for the cost of one emergency-room visit, Tibbs said.
ChenMed offers concierge-style medical services to many of the most health-vulnerable, low-income and underserved patients, said E.W. Tibbs, the company’s regional vice president for dedicated medical centers in the Carolinas and Georgia.
E.W. Tibbs, Regional Vice President of ChenMed, said: “We are happy to have received this grant and thrilled about what we will be able to bring to the community as a result. We’ll be able to reach more seniors with more services that will result in better health. We look forward to being a part of the community.” ChenMed also is planning to open seven additional centers in North Carolina — in the cities of Burlington, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. Read the full article.
Mayor Mike Duggan will celebrate with community, business and health care leaders the Grand Opening of the first of six Dedicated Senior Medical Center to open in greater Detroit during coming weeks and months. Dedicated, a ChenMed company, provides highly personalized yet affordable primary care to seniors in underserved neighborhoods.
The first of six new medical facilities called Dedicated Senior Medical Centers were officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on E. Jefferson Avenue Wednesday.
Dedicated Senior Medical Center is not just a name, it’s a play on words on how the new facilities are committed to seniors in the underserved communities they are serving.
People living nearby said it’s going to make a huge difference in the local neighborhood.
In 2003, Dr. Jen-Ling James Chen was diagnosed with cancer and given two months to live. He and his family experienced many of the frustrations senior patients often encounter when trying to navigate the healthcare system, even with tireless advocacy by his spouse, two adult sons (both cardiologists) and two daughters-in-law (one a primary care doctor and one an attorney).
By E.W. Tibbs
The best way to provide exemplary patient access is to go to where the patients are. It seems like a simple approach, but healthcare tends to invest in communities by population density usually defined by home address. My team at Centra Health, a four-hospital, not-for-profit integrated healthcare delivery system in Virginia, took a different approach, and it paid off in ways we could not imagine. In addition to providing unparalleled patient access to services in our community that were previously inaccessible, we were able to increase job growth, create economic development and provide organizational growth. Towns that were once places to drive through became robust and thriving communities.
By E.W. Tibbs
As a longtime healthcare Chief Executive Officer who began my career as a registered nurse, my passion has always been to take great care of people, both patients and caregivers. In doing so, I lead with my heart and care deeply about not hurting people.
By EW Tibbs
The question of why some communities and companies grow and prosper, while others shrink or even cease to exist, has intrigued me for decades. Theories exist with no single one applicable to every situation. Two variables stand out to me as “must-haves” to ensure community vitality.
Access to high-quality healthcare, and
Access to high-quality K-12 education
A CURRENT HOSPITAL EXECUTIVE AND MBA who started his healthcare career as a registered nurse has been chosen to lead Sparrow Health System (Sparrow) as its next president and CEO.
We recognize with deep appreciation the individuals and institutions who have generously supported the Academy’s campaigns since 1998 to restore and reopen the historic Academy of Music Theatre.
Several Bedford County businesses were recognized at the Bedford County Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner on March 22, 2018 at Boonsboro Country Club. Awards were presented to companies and non-profits for their work in their respective field and in the community. Congratulations to all who were nominated and to those who won in their category.
Lifetime Achievement Award
EW Tibbs
As 2017 comes to a close and 2018 begins, it seems like a perfect time to reflect on our accomplishments and our journey. Surely our distant successes and failures make way for new goals and improvements, and a new year signifies an “out with the old” mentality. And while this is sometimes true, we at Centra must preserve and focus on the good work that we do. We are an organization of more than 8,000 hard-working individuals doing good things for our families, friends and neighbors.
The Beauty of Life Breakfast benefitting the Friends of Bedford Hospice House will be next Thursday, February 9 at Olde Liberty Station, and E.W. Tibbs, CEO & President of Centra, is the keynote speaker. Arthur’s Jewelry is sponsoring the event, and will be on site displaying and selling jewelry, along with other vendors.
Centra’s new ambulatory-care facility behind the Ambriar Shopping Center in Amherst is open for business…
E.W. Tibbs, Centra’s president and chief executive officer, told a crowd of more than 100 gathered at the open house that the physicians are a big part of what will make the new facility a success.
“You and your families and your friends and your neighbors don’t come to pretty buildings because they’re pretty,” Tibbs said. “You come because there are caring, loving, confident people inside.”
Centra broke ground on the facility 16 months ago. At Sunday’s grand opening ceremony, E.W. Tibbs, president and CEO of Centra talked about the staff’s commitment to supplying excellent medical care. “This building behind me doesn’t take care of a single person,” Tibbs said. “It is a tool by which unbelievably committed men and women change lives. I trust every one of them I have no doubt they will take care of you just like family.”
Lynchburg, Va-based Central Health has selected Cerner to implement a health IT system across its five hospitals, more than 50 ambulatory and long-term care facilities, and health plan. In a prepared statement, E.W. Tibbs Jr., president and CEO of Centra, said the health system chose Cerner because “it was the best option to provide our clinicians with a more comprehensive view of a patient’s health history.”
The title for this award has changed over the years, however the criteria for selecting recipients has not. It still recognizes graduates for their service or accomplishments in their personal or professional lives.
Averett University's 2015 Winter Commencement held Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Grant Center in Danville, Va. Webcast provided by the Averett Sports Network/Averett Sports Information Department.
By EW Tibbs
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Indeed, the free market would initially seem to be an obvious strategy; after all, if a free market is good enough for consumer goods like personal computers and tires, it must also be good enough for health care. However, the analogy does not translate to health systems which exist to provide a public good that is not driven solely by economic incentives and in many instances is counter to a profit motive.
Centra’s Southside Medical Center in Farmville will hold a grand opening Sunday before opening to the public Monday.
The grand opening is from 4-6 p.m. at the new center at 935 Main St.
The 50,000-square-foot medical center houses primary care, orthopedics, nephrology, psychiatry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, laboratory, speech therapy and digital X-ray capabilities. In addition, the University of Virginia Health System will offer dialysis services in the building but independent of Centra Health.
Centra President and CEO E.W. Tibbs Jr. interviewed on the John Fredericks Radio Show in August 2015. The conversation covered the financial stresses on Virginia rural hospitals, and what that means for employment, the economy and public access to medical care.
Most people don’t normally think of the vital services that doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers provide. As conscientious, compassionate and dedicated individuals they are the gatekeepers to the world of creature comfort when it comes to convalescence and often are the MVPs when life hangs in the balance.
Centra now is the sole owner of Piedmont Community Health Plan, a Lynchburg-based health insurance provider with about 30,000 clients, from Farmville to Bedford and Amherst to Danville.
Gretna unwrapped an early Christmas present Sunday as Centra Health Inc. held a ribbon-cutting and dedication for its long-anticipated $23.8 million emergency room and medical center.
All 750 seats were filled and many stood in the back and along the sides as an estimated 1,000 people crowded under two large tents for the dedication.
“Yes, Gretna, there is a Santa Claus,” said Gretna Mayor Keith Motley. “It’s a dream come true for this community.”
The president and CEO of Centra, E.W. Tibbs, spoke to the Moneta Ruritans on Aug. 8, addressing the recent changes to Bedford Memorial since Centra acquired Carillion’s shares of the hospital in July. The forum was similar to a series of town hall meetings Centra hosted at Liberty High School earlier in the summer. Tibbs reassured the club members that Centra would treat everyone that utilized its services for treatment with a caring attitude. “Our goal is to earn your trust and keep it,” Tibbs said.