TORONTO, July 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Med-Emerg International Inc. has signed agreements with Hamilton Health Sciences to provide consulting, recruitment, staffing, scheduling and billing services. The agreements call for Med-Emerg to provide Hamilton Health Sciences up to 1,000 hours per month of physician coverage, to manage certain aspects of the billing process for the hospital and to recruit a number of full-time physicians to help Hamilton Health Sciences address current shortages.
"We are pleased to have been selected to work with Hamilton Health Sciences," said Dr. Ramesh Zacharias, CEO of Med-Emerg International Inc. "With 22 years of experience in healthcare recruiting and staffing we believe that we can assist Hamilton Health Sciences to continue to deliver the quality of service and care that Hamilton has come to expect from this fine institution."
Dr. Jennifer Everson, Vice President, Medical at Hamilton Health Sciences said, "Our hospital has a long history of innovation and leading edge care. We believe that Med-Emerg is a good partner for us and that by working together we will be able to better meet the needs of our community."
MEII specializes in the coordination and delivery of emergency and primary health care related services in Canada. These services include physician and nurse staffing and recruitment, clinical management and drug infusion services.
Hamilton Health Sciences is a family of five unique hospitals and a cancer centre, serving more than 2.3 million residents of Hamilton and central west Ontario. Hamilton Health Sciences is the second largest hospital in Ontario and the regional centre for services for burns, trauma, cardiac, stroke, neurosurgery, pediatrics, digestive diseases, high-risk obstetrics, cancer, orthopedics and rehabilitation. With a staff of more than 10,000, the hospital is the largest employer in Hamilton, Ontario. As an academic teaching hospital with more than 1,000 beds and an affiliation with McMaster University and Mohawk College, Hamilton Health Sciences is committed to providing exemplary health care for the people and communities served and advancing excellence in education and health research.
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Med-Emerg International Inc.CONTACT: Ramesh Zacharias, Chief Executive Officer, Med-EmergInternational Inc., Tel: (905) 858-1368, Email: rzacharias@med-emerg.com;Shelly Easton, Senior public relations specialist, Hamilton HealthSciences, Tel: (905) 521-2100 ext. 76731, Email: eastons@hhsc.ca, Web:www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca