New England Life Care

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Symposium Speaker Spotlight! Laura Smith, MD Laura Smith, MD is the Senior Medical Director of Clinical Operations for Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, and a practicing hospitalist. She joined Brigham in 2012 as a resident in Internal Medicine and joined the faculty in 2015 in the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine. In her role as Senior Medical Director for Clinical Operations, Dr. Smith is responsible for shaping and implementing Brigham and Women’s Hospital strategies that involve clinical and operational collaboration and integration between the hospital administration and the clinical departments or cross-cutting multidisciplinary or cross-department initiatives that serve the Brigham and Women’s Hospital mission. Dr. Smith also providers clinical leadership in the Department of Care Continuum Management and on the BWH Complex Care Team, developing and implementing innovative strategies aimed at improving patient care progression.   To register for the Symposium, please click the link below: https://lnkd.in/dA66JY9e

Symposium Speaker Spotlight! Anuj Dalal, MD, SFHM Anuj K Dalal, MD, SFHM is an Associate Physician in the Hospital Medicine Unit, Division of General Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Associate Director, Harvard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine. He is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. His body of work has focused on designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating novel, interoperable digital health technologies to improve quality and safety in acute care. Dr. Dalal is nationally recognized in his field and his research has been published extensively at the intersection of informatics, quality, and safety. His work has been funded by AHRQ, CRICO, PCORI, and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Dr. Dalal led a 4-year AHRQ-funded Patient Safety Learning Laboratory during which his team developed an approach for investigating diagnostic errors by analyzing the diagnostic process and pilot testing interventions to improve diagnostic safety in acute care. He currently leads an AHRQ R01 that uses novel predictive approaches and user-centered design principles to design tools to engage patients in real-time symptom monitoring using ePROs during care transitions. He also leads an NIA R01 to design, develop, implement, and evaluate methods for older hospitalized patients living with multiple chronic conditions to locate and share their electronic health records for patient safety research.   To register for the Symposium, please click the link below: https://lnkd.in/dA66JY9e

Join us for our 7th Annual Population Health and Value Management Symposium! The focus of the symposium is Managing Complex Care & Capacity – Novel Approaches to Creative Solutions with our keynote speaker being Ryan Thompson, MD, Medical Director, Care Continuum at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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Symposium Speaker Spotlight! Our emcee, Darren Guy, DO Dr. Darren Guy is the Chief Population Health Officer (CPHO) at Core Physicians/Exeter Hospital, an affiliate of the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) system, he is also the Executive Director of the Medicare NH-Cares ACO. Dr Guy has over 20 years of health care experience, many as a physician leader focused on improving health outcomes. After completing his residency and chief resident year at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Guy joined Core Physicians/Exeter Hospital in 2007. From 2015-2017, prior to his current role, he helped launch Benevera Health, a payer-provider joint venture population health company in New Hampshire. As CPHO, Dr. Guy is responsible for developing and implementing value-based care strategies across the health system and local communities. He oversees payer performance in varying reimbursement models, ambulatory quality improvement, care coordination, behavioral and community health, as well as health equity. Dr. Guy resides in Exeter, NH with his wife and two daughters. To register for the Symposium, please click the link below: https://lnkd.in/dA66JY9e

Symposium Speaker Spotlight! Wendy Mitchell, MD Dr. Mitchell is an Internal Medicine Board Certified physician, who is Medical Director of Digital Programs and Strategy at UMass Memorial Medical Center where she also serves as a virtual home hospitalist and is the site lead for the SNF At Home trial. Over her career, she has worked in all areas of the care continuum including inpatient care in both tertiary and community hospitals, outpatient primary care, post-acute facility care, transitional care management, and in population health as an ACO medical director. At Lowell General Hospital, she developed many clinical programs aimed at reducing avoidable ED and inpatient utilization, including a Mobile Integrated Health program, Hospital At Home, a Bridge Clinic for Substance Use Disorder, an SDOH Resource Bank, remote patient monitoring, chronic disease programs, and care management programs. Previous leadership roles include President of the Lowell General Hospital Medical Staff, Wellforce Care Plan (Tufts) Medicaid ACO Medical Director, Lahey Vice Chair of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Mitchell is passionate about healthcare innovation that improves the care of patients, providers, improves quality, and brings value. To register for the Symposium, please click the link below: https://lnkd.in/dA66JY9e

New England Life Care, an in-home infusion therapy provider, elected Mary Bolg, vice president of operations for medical specialties and diagnostics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics), to its board of directors in June. With over 30 years of healthcare experience, Bolg leads DHMC’s departments of medicine, radiology, pathology, emergency medicine, psychiatry, community and family medicine, Dartmouth Health Children's, and the Digestive Center for Health. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dwH5cm9Y

Join us on September 20th, 2024 in Portsmouth, NH for our 7th Annual Population Health Symposium! For information or to register, visit the following link: https://lnkd.in/dA66JY9e

In honor of National Nurses Week, it is our tremendous privilege, on behalf of NELC, our Board of Directors and our patients, to express our deepest gratitude to our NELC Nurses, our nursing colleagues, for all that you do to make a difference every day in the lives of our patients, their families and loved ones, and the communities that we serve. Nursing is the most trusted profession; you serve as a beacon of hope and a source of comfort. You are the backbone of healthcare as you use your skills and knowledge to practice at the highest level of nursing. You put patients first by advocating for them, understanding them, listening to them, and treating every patient in your care with compassion. Your incredible and tireless efforts, especially during the most challenging times, deserve the utmost respect and admiration. For all this and so much more, We cannot thank you enough. We are so proud to call our NELC nurses our colleagues!