Cap Scan - August 2023

AUGUST EDITION, VOLUME 2023, NO. 8

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CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY 2023 MEETINGS CALENDAR August 15, 2023 CMS Membership & CME Meeting Cardiac Electrophysiology Tests and Subsequent Treatment Options Farhat Khairallah, M.D. 6:00 pm Maguire Center for Lifelong Learning at Westminster Oaks

September 19, 2023 CMS Membership Meeting Panel Discussion: Caring for Aging Family – Care Planning and Resources 6:00 pm Maguire Center for Lifelong Learning at Westminster Oaks

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS Sarah Ko, M.D., PhD, President Helen Paulson, M.D., President-Elect

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CMS Dues........................................................................3 CMS News...................................................................... 4 CMS Lunch and Learn Seminars............................... 6 Practice Management..................................................7 Reflections from the Editor........................................8 Viewpoint......................................................................10 CMS Foundation Supports Local Organizations................................................... 12 We Thank Our Donors...............................................14 Donate to the CMS Foundation............................... 15 CMS Foundation: We Care Network...................... 16

Russell Cole, M.D., Secretary/Treasurer Paresh Patel, M.D., Immediate Past President Danny Estupiñán, M.D. Amulya Konda, M.D. John Meade, M.D.

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CMS NEWS

CMS WELCOMES INCOMING RESIDENTS Dr. Russell Cole, CMS Secretary/Treasurer, and Pam Irwin, CMS Executive Director, hosted an orientation luncheon for new Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residents on June 14, 2023 at the Tallahassee Memorial Family Residency Program. Dr. Cole and Pam shared the importance of becoming involved in organized medicine at the local level. They encouraged the new residents to join CMS and to grow their understanding of legislation impacting the

practice of medicine, to attend CMS events, CMEs, and social activities to grow their understanding of the local medical community, the practice of medicine, and to build friendships.

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CMS LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINARS

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINARS MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE REMAINING 2023 LUNCH AND LEARN SEMINARS! September 20, 2023 HIPAA Regulatory and Enforcement Update Presenters: Shannon Hartsfield, Mia McKown, and Eddie Williams, Holland & Knight October 18, 2023 HR Workshop: Creating a Culture of Engagement and Respect Presenter: Kelly Green, SHRM-SCP, HR Consultant, James Moore & Co., CPAs Sponsor: CAMPUS USA Credit Union

Time: 12 Noon to 1:30 PM (Seminar starts at 12:30 PM) Place: CHP Auditorium, 2nd Floor, 1491 Governors Square Blvd.

Cost: $11 per person, per seminar

For more information or to RSVP, please contact Rosalie Carlin at (850) 877-9018 or rcarlin@capmed.org.

Seminars will be held at the Capital Health Plan on Governors Square Blvd. – and we thank CHP for providing this venue.

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October 17, 2023 CMS Membership & CME Meeting Prevention of Medical Errors (2-Hour CME) E. Victoria "Tori" Penny, Esq. and Julia Weeks, M.D. 6:00 pm Maguire Center for Lifelong Learning at Westminster Oaks

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December 8, 2023 *NEW DATE* CMS Foundation Holiday Auction 6:00 pm Dunlap Champions Club at FSU

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

THE BUSINESS SIDE OF MEDICINE: HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SURVIVAL GUIDE – 2023 ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES Information provided by Ben Mirza and Mirza Healthcare Law Partners The following virtual seminars are held on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm.

October 17 How Experienced Physicians Protect their Assets To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZEtd-itrD0qGdKiTjTIuY-xesann4voCGSA

August 15 “So, I Signed a Non-Compete, Now What?”

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November 21 How to Handle Collection Challenges of Working With Health Plans To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZEvcemvqj0iGNS_EYr23URIRp1knKY6ATzO

September 19 How to Minimize the Risk of Malpractice Lawsuits To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZcqd-6srDkiH9Iu9zHAxsfTWnRZ8hlNZwWU

December 12 Medical Marijuana Law for Physician Practices To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZwsd-GorT4oH9QthmrfIbCkRt9Kx5vnZhst

TEACH YOUR PATIENTS THE DANGERS OF GAS STOVES Gas stoves are a health risk.

This is true especially for children and the elderly.

People who live in homes with gas stoves have more asthma, lung disease, and cardiovascular disease. This month, the Society’s My Green Doctor provides a short article (visit https:// mygreendoctor.org/learn-the-health-risks-ofgas-stoves/ or scan the QR) on this vital topic (reading time: 5 mins).

My Green Doctor is a free money-saving membership benefit from the Capital Medical Society. Members use the “Meeting-by-Meeting Guide” to learn how to adopt environmental sustainability, save resources, and help create healthier communities.

The program adds just five minutes to each regular office staff meeting

or weekly office “huddle”, making small changes at each meeting that over time really add up.

Everyone in your practice can register as Partner Society members at www.MyGreenDoctor.org or at www.

MyGreenDoctor.es (si, en Espanol). Use the discount code MGDCMS to get full free access to My Green Doctor, save $60 instantly, and save $1000s in the first year. Ask your practice manager to register today and to put My Green Doctor on your next agenda. You can do this!

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REFLECTIONS FROM THE EDITOR

ONE DEATH IN JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

By Frank Skilling, M.D. “We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.” T.S. Eliot “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.” Soren Kierkegaard In the early 1960s, there was a weekly TV melodrama called “Ben Casey.” The opening credits depicted the senior surgeon, Dr. David Zorba, writing five pictographs on a blackboard while he intoned, “Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity.” It was an attempt to reduce the cycle of life to fit the contemporary theme of medicine as conceived by the writers.

I hadn’t thought about it for years, but now, over fifty years past my graduation from medical school, I recall it as a summary of an experience that has stuck with me since my early medical training.

I was an intern at Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) in Miami in 1973 when I was paged to the Emergency Department late one night to admit a patient who had been brought in by the ambulance service. I’ll call her Estelle Russell. She was a sixty-two-year-old white woman who’d been found unresponsive in her apartment in South Miami. I had no past medical history to go on. She was unaccompanied, and no relatives were listed. I immediately realized that she was severely dehydrated and in extremis with dangerously abnormal vital signs. After admitting her to one of the ancient non-air-conditioned wards at JMH, I did all the things that I had been taught to do: lab studies, urine cultures, blood 8

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cultures, chest x-ray, abdominal x-ray, IV fluids. An initial chest film showed an opacity in one lung, so I immediately started IV antibiotics because I thought that she might have pneumonia. Over the next several hours, her vital signs continued to deteriorate, and on early morning rounds, it became clear that she was going to die. I gave her IV steroids, a vasopressor, and more antibiotics.

She died about 11:00 AM, less than ten hours after admission. I was at the bedside when she died. I obtained permission for an autopsy because no clear cause of death could be ascertained.

A few weeks later, I was ordered to present her story at the weekly M & M (morbidity and mortality) conference. After my presentation, I was given a scathing evaluation by the chief of internal medicine who berated me for not finding a cause of her systemic collapse and for not saving her. He was sure that she had an occult infection that I had missed. Even though I’d given her the prescribed treatments for a comatose patient at the time, he was sure that I’d missed something. I stood at the podium without responding. As was the custom, the autopsy results were then presented to the audience. The head of anatomical pathology delivered his findings: there was no infection in the lungs and the cause of death could not be determined. Her demise remained a mystery. With this conclusion, I felt justified in my care for Estelle Russell, but I was humiliated, nonetheless.

Now that I’ve passed the age when Estelle died, I more intently recognize that the cycle of life is one that carries its meaning primarily in how we live and die in the context of others. The lonely, the abandoned, the unrecognized are swirling around us, and it’s only in the presence of our spouses, families, and loved ones that the chalkboard chain of men, women, birth, and death holds us together. Infinity, the last symbol on the TV show’s introduction, is essentially a breath or a heartbeat away. Each person’s journey is solitary without the support of our family and loved ones.

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Maybe this is why Estelle Russell’s death has stood out in my memory for over 50 years. I attended many deaths as a medical student and intern, but I remember hers more for the loneliness and abandonment that she experienced than for the medical aspects of her case. I can only speculate that perhaps she was aware that I was there when she died.

This is one of the most difficult aspects of medical education: we learn how to be doctors, to practice delivering medical care, but the implications and context of our practice isn’t realized personally until much later. During our training we’re so busy cramming facts into our heads that we can’t or don’t appreciate the great gift that we’ve been given to join a healing profession. Likewise, we put into the backs of our minds that what happens to our patients will inevitably happen to us eventually.

We humans, who are eternally obsessed with determining who’s in charge or who’s ahead of us, eventually find that “all who have died are equal.”

is a member of the “healthcare team,” but no one physician appears to be in charge. Since few patients have a designated full time primary care physician anymore, it’s a lottery who will care for them when problems arise. I certainly don’t think that “the good old days of medicine” were all that good, but at least there could be some semblance of acknowledgement or recognition in the encounters that patients had with their physicians.

Ironically, hospitals are returning to their roots in medieval times when they were constructed to provide a place for people to die if they could not afford to be cared for at home. Most Americans say that they want to die at home surrounded by loved ones, but many of us will die in a hospital anyway. Estelle Russell was a harbinger of the fate that still awaits many today.

R.I.P. Estelle. I was your last human contact before infinity. I haven’t forgotten you.

We’re now living in the age of corporate healthcare (no longer called medical practice). Physicians have become replaceable cogs in the great wheel that doles out industrial style medicine. Everyone

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VIEWPOINT

CAN PHYSICIANS BECOME REPLACEABLE?

By Michael A. Cromer, M.D., President, Hillsborough County Medical Association This is a question that I asked myself the other day as I was opening up an App on my iPhone to quickly obtain some medical information for a patient. It was sort of an ironic question when one thinks how esteemed the profession of medicine once stood in our society. To now wonder if we could ever be replaced by robots (artificial intelligence), Apps, or … nurse practitioners and physician assistants!

Venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee told CNBC, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be bigger than all other tech revolutions, and robots are likely to replace 50 percent of all jobs in the next decade.”

A Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla said, “machines will substitute 80 percent of doctors in the future in a healthcare scene driven by entrepreneurs, not medical professionals.”

If one thinks that our profession, or even some of our specialties like primary care or radiology, could become a thing of the past, we must start now to guard against this from happening. What are some things we can do now to assure our existence in the future?

First of all, to show our worth we must remain highly trained. The training of physicians in this country has long been an arduous process, and so it should be. Society as a whole partly respects physicians because they know that we have received a lot of training to get where we are. We didn’t get there by cutting corners or taking the fast track. We must let people be aware that there is a lot of difference in the amount of clinical training hours received by a nurse practitioner (500), vs. a physician assistant (2,000), vs. a medical student by the end of their 4th-year (6,000), vs. a physician with three years of residency training (15,000).

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Continuing Medical Education available to us and Maintenance of Certification required of us. These at least provide some sort of standards for society to know that their physicians have some ongoing accountability process.

As physicians gain experience the more they realize that, no two patients are exactly alike.

Humans, unlike robots, can bring creativity and subjectivity into the exam room and more effectively narrow down differential diagnoses and treatment possibilities. Only we, as physicians, can apply critical thinking to best assess what the optimal treatment plan for a patient might be.

Next, we need to show compassion. Some of us have this innately in our personality; others of us have to work on it. It might be taught some in medical schools but it is rarely rewarded by corporate employers once we start working in the profession. It is, however, one of the ways that allows us to have an impact in patient’s lives and one of the main things that our patients remember us by. Apps don’t show compassion, artificial intelligence won’t either. The compassion we give our patients will set us apart and be one of the reasons our patients will want to choose us.

A cousin to compassion is empathy – having the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. An algorithm will not be able to build trust to help someone make an important decision for a loved one. A robot will not be able to walk a patient through a difficult medical crisis.

Be a leader on the healthcare team. At least in Florida, the dam was already broken when our legislators thought it was prudent to allow Nurse Practitioners to practice independently. However, there are many more settings where we physicians work as a part of a health care team that includes nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and medical assistants. A physician should always be the leader of that team. Not just in clinical

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acumen, but also in our work ethic, our moral ethic, and in how we treat others on the team.

Be a role model that others look up to and try to emulate.

Attempt to control your destiny. Part of this is done by carrying out the three objectives above.

But it also comes up in our choice of who we work for and being careful of what kind of employment contracts we sign. At present, over 50% of physicians are employed by hospitals or healthcare corporations. There are some companies more than others that value physicians respect physician’s input. However, don’t be lulled into complacency believing that your employer will always make the decisions that are best for you or the medical profession. They will always look out for their own interests first.

Controlling your destiny also means being a part of the decision making when it comes to your profession. The latter often involves getting involved in your county medical society or specialty association. It may also include getting involved in the political arena. I encourage each of you to get involved in organized medicine before

it is too late. As the saying goes, “if you don’t have a seat at the table, you are more likely to be on the menu.”

Don’t misunderstand me, I know that more artificial intelligence will appear in healthcare in the next 10 years, many of it being helpful for physicians and improving health outcomes. As physicians, we need to speak up and get involved in how the automation happens and in what context it is best used. Due to AI, some tasks will disappear, while others will be added to the work routine. However, if we as physicians do the things we need to do now, there will be fewer opportunities where computers, either through a robot or an algorithm, will take the place of a doctor.

Reprinted with author permission from the HCMA Bulletin, Vol. 69, No. 1, Summer 2023.

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CMS FOUNDATION SUPPORTS LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCESS TO BEREAVEMENT SERVICES Pam Irwin (pictured left), Executive Director of the Capital Medical Society Foundation, presented a check for $4,000 to Dena Strickland (pictured right), President of the Big Bend Hospice Foundation on July 10, 2023. “The CMS Foundation is happy to support Big Bend Hospice Bereavement Services Program,” said Pam Irwin. We applaud Big Bend Hospice for serving the community through this program. The funding may be used to provide individual, group, and community grief counseling to youth, schools, and caregivers.

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE FOR SENIORS Pam Irwin (pictured second from right), Executive Director of the Capital Medical Society Foundation, presented a check for $3,500 to Elder Care Services on July 19, 2023. The grant award was accepted by Elder Care Services’ Brian Marquez (pictured left), Communications and Development Coordinator; Nicole Ballas (pictured second from left), Chief Development Officer; and Jocelyne Fliger (pictured right), President and CEO. The grant award aligns with the Capital Medical Society Foundation’s mission that includes supporting efforts to increase access to health care services. Elder Care Services’ program of home-based care for seniors provides necessary services in-home, as well as, transportation to doctors and other healthcare providers. We appreciate Elder Care Services ongoing commitment to make these important services available to seniors in our community.

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCESS TO CHILD SAFETY SEATS Capital Medical Society Foundation’s Executive Director Pam Irwin (pictured middle) presented a check for $3,000 to KidSafe of Lutheran Social Services of North Florida, Inc. on July 11, 2023. Lutheran Social Services Executive Director Dorothy Hinkle (pictured left) and Board of Directors President Barbara Ehlmann (pictured right) accepted the grant award that will help fund the KidSafe program. KidSafe provides life-saving new safety seats to economically vulnerable families who cannot afford to buy them. The funding will be used for the expansion of the safety seat program and for the development of an educational/assistance community component that will increase the efficacy of child safety seat use in Tallahassee/Leon County. The Capital Medical Society Foundation is pleased to support this child safety program.

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CMS FOUNDATION SUPPORTS LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION SUPPORTS THOSE WITH VISION IMPAIRMENT On July 17, 2023, Capital Medical Society Foundation’s Executive Director Pam Irwin (pictured left) presented a check for $3,500 to Lighthouse of the Big Bend to assist in the purchase of aids for their clients with vision loss. Lighthouse of the Big Bend Chief Executive Officer Tina Torrance (pictured second from right) and Chief Development Officer Debara Jump (pictured far right) accepted the grant award. The aids improve the quality of life for the visually impaired and help them manage their health and medical care more independently. We applaud the work of the Lighthouse of the Big Bend!

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE TALLAHASSEE REGIONAL CAMPUS FOOD PANTRY! The Capital Medical Society Foundation and the Florida State University College of Medicine Tallahassee Regional Campus thank you for helping our next generation of physicians.

A picture is worth a thousand words! On July 12, 2023, Yvonne Brown, Capital Medical Society Foundation Board Director (pictured left), delivered Food Pantry items to Elaine Geissinger, FSU College of Medicine Tallahassee Regional Campus Administrator (pictured right). Elaine Geissinger and the medical students continue to express their gratitude to CMS Foundation for helping address food insecurity issues on campus.

Financial donations may be made by check payable to the Capital Medical Society Foundation with “FSUCOM Food Pantry” on the memo line and mailed to the CMS office, 1204 Miccosukee Road, Tallahassee, FL 32308. You may make online gifts at https:// capmed.org/donate/ with “FSUCOM Food Pantry” selected in the dropdown.

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WE THANK OUR DONORS

We Thank Our Donors We thank the following donors who made a gift to the CMS Foundation this past month: Capital Medical Society Foundation – included with their annual dues payment C. William Applegate, M.D. David E. Craig, M.D. Larry Taylor, M.D. Frank Walker, M.D. Charles D. Williams, M.D.

Capital Medical Society Foundation – Area of Greatest Need Robin McDougall, LCSW

The CMS Foundation Scholarship Fund David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Myrle R. Grate, Jr., M.D. David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Eleanor Hutchinson Smith David Bellamy, M.D. – In Memory of Daniel Van Durme, M.D.

Capital Medical Society Foundation – FSU College of Medicine Tallahassee Regional Campus Food Pantry Anonymous J. Alan Cox Elaine Geissinger

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Dr. and Mrs. David A. Jones John P. Mahoney, M.D. Francis C. Skilling, Jr., M.D.

Your gifts to the Capital Medical Society Foundation transform lives in the Big Bend.

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DONATE TO THE CMS FOUNDATION

The Impact of Private Support: The Capital Medical Society Foundation’s community of donors strategically help fulfill its mission “to support the charitable efforts of physicians and others, increase access to healthcare, promote education and serve the community’s health needs through innovative projects that are exemplary, affordable and dignified.” ➢ Access to healthcare is increased through gifts to the We Care Network and the We Care Network Endowment Fund. More than $129 million in donated specialty medical and dental care has been provided to low-income, uninsured patients since the program was created in 1992. In fiscal year 2022-23, which ended June 30, 2023, more than $5 million in healthcare was donated. Gifts support the operational expenses of the program including salaries and benefits of the case management team who coordinate the donated care. ➢ To provide incentives to keep medical students trained at the FSU College of Medicine in the Big Bend after completion of their residencies and help meet the growing demand for physicians in Florida, gifts to the CMS Foundation Scholarship Fund provide scholarships to FSU College of Medicine students who have expressed an interest in returning to the Big Bend to practice after completion of their residencies. $50,000 was awarded in 2022. An additional $1,000 was awarded from The Anesthesiology Associates of Tallahassee Scholarship Fund. $1,000 was also awarded from The Charles D. “Pedro” Williams, M.D. Scholarship Fund. In 2022, the first Julia Revell St. Petery, M.D. Scholarship in Pediatrics was awarded. ➢ Gifts to the Capital Medical Society Foundation help provide operational resources for the Capital Medical Society Foundation. In addition, modest grants are awarded to area non-profits whose programs improve access to healthcare for the underserved. In 2023, the CMSF awarded a total of $14,000 in grants to the Big Bend Hospice Foundation for bereavement services, Elder Care Services for in-home services to seniors, Lighthouse of the Big Bend to provide services to the visually impaired, and to Lutheran Social Services of North Florida, Inc. for the KidSafe program.

Gifts to Honor and In Memoriam: You can make a gift to the CMS Foundation in memory of someone who has passed away or in honor of someone, such as a fellow physician, you hold in high esteem or has taken care of you or your family. The CMS Foundation will send an acknowledgement letter to those you memorialize and honor.

How to Give: Through the generosity of donors, funds have been created in order to establish financial stability to meet our mission. You can make a gift at any time to one of the CMS Foundation’s current funds: 1) The Capital Medical Society Foundation – Area of Greatest Need 2) The Capital Medical Society Foundation General Endowment 3) We Care Network 4) We Care Network Endowment 5) The Ronald G. Pickett Endowment 6) The CMS Foundation Physician Wellness Fund 7) The CMS Foundation Scholarship Fund 8) The FSUCOM Food Pantry 9) The Anesthesiology Associates of Tallahassee Scholarship Endowment 10) The Anesthesiology Associates of Tallahassee Scholarship Fund (Unendowed) 11) The J. Orson Smith, M.D. Scholarship in Internal Medicine Endowment 12) The J. Orson Smith, M.D. Scholarship in Internal Medicine Fund (Unendowed) 13) The Julia Revell St. Petery, M.D. Scholarship in Pediatrics Endowment 14) The Julia Revell St. Petery, M.D. Scholarship in Pediatrics Fund (Unendowed) 15) The Charles D. “Pedro” Williams, M.D. Scholarship Endowment 16) The Charles D. “Pedro” Williams, M.D. Scholarship Fund (Unendowed) Gifts should be made payable to the CMS Foundation. Indicate on the memo line of your check to which designation you would like to give. Bring your check to the CMS Office or mail it: Capital Medical Society Foundation ~ 1204 Miccosukee Road ~ Tallahassee, FL 32308.

Gifts may be made by credit card or direct debit from the CMS website.

If you would like to discuss a gift of appreciated securities, an insurance policy, designation of retirement plan assets, estate gift, or multi-year pledge, please contact: Pam Irwin Executive Director pirwin@capmed.org or (850) 877-9018 or (850) 559-8611 CAP SCAN - A CAPITAL MEDICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION

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FOUNDATION

We Care Network

THANK YOU To our CMS members and We Care Network partners who provided healthcare to new patients in June 2023.

Your generosity and support of the We Care Network makes a difference.

Physicians Jay Allard, M.D. Marie Becker, M.D. Michael Bernhardt, M.D. Timothy Bolek, M.D. Viet Bui, M.D. Carlos Campo, M.D. Francisco Carpio, M.D. Gilbert Chandler, M.D. Eric Chung, M.D. William Dixon IV, M.D. H. Avon Doll, M.D. David Dolson, M.D. Chesley Durgin, M.D. Adam Engel, M.D. James Farrell, D.O. Alberto Fernandez, M.D. Hong Gao, M.D. W. Harris Green, M.D. Gregory Hartlage, M.D. Todd Hewitt, M.D. Brook Hill, M.D. Marc Inglese, M.D. Joey Jarrard, M.D. Kenneth Kato, M.D. Sayeed Khalillullah, M.D. James Killius, M.D. Fang Sarah Ko, M.D., PhD Hari Kolli, M.D. Kurt Luhmann, M.D. Michael Mangan, M.D. Mina Mousa, M.D. Kishor Muniyappa, M.D. Mitchell Peabody, D.O. Michael Pentaleri, M.D. Hussein Rayatzadeh, M.D. Pablo Rengifo-Moreno, M.D. Allison Retzer, M.D. Davis Rierson, M.D. Tim Ruark, M.D. Ronald Saff, M.D. Eliot Sieloff, M.D. Hardeep Singh, M.D. Bhavik Soni, M.D. Robert Steinmetz, M.D. Ronald Sullivan, M.D. John Thabes, M.D. 16

William Thompson, M.D. Jean-Paul Tran, M.D. Ernesto Umana, M.D. Beatriz Cepeda Valery, M.D. Kaisa van der Kooi, M.D. Andrea Venturini, M.D. David Vermess, M.D. Tony Weaver, M.D. William Yaakob, M.D. Brian Zirgibel, M.D. Dentists Briano Allen, D.D.S. Jean-Pierre Bastien, D.M.D. David Cardman, D.M.D. Walter Colón, D.M.D. Alan Dransfield, D.M.D. William McFatter, D.D.S. Lawrence Pijut, D.M.D. Lawrence Weaver, D.D.S. Facilities Advanced Urology Institute Airway Works, LLC Allergy & Asthma Diagnostic Treatment Center Anesthesiology Associates Apalachee Primary Care Bastien Dental Care Beachton Denture Clinic Bond Community Health Center Care Point Health & Wellness Center Dermatology Associates Digestive Disease Clinic Enhanced Endodontics Eye Associates of Tallahassee FSU PrimaryHealth Gadsden County Health Department HCA Florida Capital Hospital Cancer Center HCA Florida Capital Hospital Primary Care Jessie Furlow Medical Center Ketchum, Wood, & Burgert Pathology Associates Lawrence J. Pijut DMD PA Madison Medical Center Neighborhood Medical Center North Florida Nephrology Associates North Florida Womens Care North Monroe Medical Center Periodontal Associates of North Florida Radiology Associates of Tallahassee Red Hills Dental Associates Shepherds Hands – Monticello Southeast Radiology Partners

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Southern Medical Group, P.A. Southern Vitreoretinal Associates Tallahassee Diagnostic Imaging Tallahassee Ear, Nose, and Throat Tallahassee Gastro Health Center Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare TMH Physician Partners Cancer and Hematology TMH Physician Partners Cardiology and Internal Medicine TMH Physician Partners Cardiothoracic Surgery TMH Physician Partners Endocrinology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Gynecologic Oncology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Heart Rhythm Clinic TMH Physician Partners Hospitalists Group TMH Physician Partners Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Specialists TMH Physician Partners Quincy TMH Physician Partners Radiation Oncology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Surgical Specialists TMH Physician Partners Urology Specialists TMH Physician Partners Wakulla TMH Transition Center Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic TOC Canopy Tallahassee VA Clinic Wakulla County Health Department Wakulla Medical Center Womens Clinic Women’s Imaging Center Please contact Diana Bixler at dbixler@capmed.org or (850) 201-0130 if you are a We Care Network volunteer and you provided volunteer specialty care in the month of June 2023, and your name is omitted.

The We Care Network strongly encourages our volunteer physicians and dentists to send their value of donated services to us. The value of donated services is important for us to share with our funders and the community. In addition, up to five hours, per biennium, of CE credit may be fulfilled by performing pro bono medical and dental services to We Care Network patients, if we have received documentation of value of services. You can send your value of donated services via fax to Diana Bixler at (850) 2010085 or mail to 1204 Miccosukee Road, Tallahassee, FL, 32308. Thank you!

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We thank our referring providers from June 2023:

Jonathan Appelbaum, M.D.

Hantz Hercule, M.D.

Charlie Richardson, M.D.

Adrian Baker, M.D.

Todd Hewitt, M.D.

Karen Russell, M.D.

Katrina Ball, APRN

Amit Jain, M.D.

David Saint, M.D.

Kendra Brady, APRN

Anneka Johnson, APRN

Expedito Salvador, P.A.

Sherry Bramblett, APRN

Christopher Laing, D.D.S.

Lucilita Salvador, P.A.

Daniel Breivogel, APRN

Elaine Larkins, APRN

Kyla Shillington, APRN

Tim Broeseker, M.D.

Janice Lawson, M.D.

Benjamin Shivar, P.A.

Patrick Brown, M.D.

Jessica Lea, APRN

Jeannine Silberman, M.D.

Viet Bui, M.D.

Ashok Manocha, B.D.S.

Paul Smith, D.M.D.

Callie Burch, APRN

Damon McMillan, M.D.

Angela Smith, APRN

Rachel Busby-Drewek, APRN

Lisa Menchion, APRN

Christopher Sundstrom, M.D.

Francisco Carpio, M.D.

Marie Methellus, APRN

Yusef Syed, M.D.

Carlos Castro, M.D.

Jennifer Miles, APRN

Cristian Del Carpio

Melba Colon-Renta, M.D.

Kelley Miller, APRN

Tenorio, M.D.

Jill David, APRN

Marcia Morris, APRN

Faye Tinson, APRN

Brian Del Carlo, D.D.S.

Abiodun Ogunremi, APRN

Dwanna Ward-Boahen, APRN

William Dixon IV, M.D.

Chukwuma Okoroji, M.D.

Beatriz Cepeda Valery, M.D.

Nathalie Esellem, APRN

Rose Origa, APRN

Lakeshia Washington, APRN

Cynthia Evans, APRN

Anthony Otekeiwebia, M.D.

Jeffrey Wasserman, D.O.

Sharron Foster, M.D.

Dianne Pappachristou, D.O.

Eula Weaver, APRN

Gian-Carlo Giove, M.D.

Jorge Perez de Armas, M.D.

Tony Weaver, M.D.

Lillie Green, APRN

Lisa Perkins, APRN

Barbara Williams, M.D.

Judy Griffin, APRN

Angela Pham, P.A.

Shana Wood, APRN

Aixa Guzman, D.M.D.

Hussein Rayatzadeh, M.D.

DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE 2023, THE WE CARE NETWORK: RECEIVED 214 REFERRALS, WITH 125 PATIENTS NEW TO THE PROGRAM

SCHEDULED 68 APPOINTMENTS WITH VOLUNTEER PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS

$476,300 IN DONATED CARE WAS REPORTED BY WE CARE CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE NETWORK VOLUNTEERS

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