New senior care center opens in Savannah

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.

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Queen City Gets New ChenMed Center

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.

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Today’s Grand Opening of 100th ChenMed Center is First of Eight Dedicated Senior Medical Centers Opening Quickly 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.

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Chain of medical practices specializing in senior care coming to Triad

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.

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ChenMed Chooses Fayetteville, NC, for New Medical Center

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.

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New senior medical centers to open in Detroit

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.

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Six New Primary Care Centers Coming to Wayne County

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).

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Featured: Converting the Currency of Patient Access Into Organizational Growth and Economic Development

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.

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Featured: Pursuing High-Reliability in Healthcare

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.

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Featured: Community Vitality: The Importance of Access to High-Quality Healthcare and K-12 Education

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.

  1. Access to high-quality healthcare, and

  2. Access to high-quality K-12 education

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Theater Restoration Donors

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.

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Bedford County Businesses and Organizations Recognized at Annual Chamber Dinner

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
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Op-Ed: Look to the Future; Build on the Past

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.

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Beauty of Life Breakfast

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.

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New Centra medical center opens in Amherst

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.”

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Danville welcomes new Centra medical facility

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.”

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