ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2004--Aspen Healthcare Metrics is pleased to announce that Nicholas J. Sears, M.D. has joined the organization as Senior Vice President for Clinical Services. Dr. Sears is a Board Certified Cardiovascular Surgeon with more than 20 years of experience as a cardiothoracic surgeon and physician executive. Dr. Sears practiced Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery for 12 years in both private and academic settings. He served as Vice-chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Vice-chief of Surgery at Tampa General Hospital, and as Co-Director of the Cardiac Transplant Program. Prior to those posts, Dr. Sears was Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Sears has extensive experience in the healthcare consulting industry. He is recognized for being a catalyst for instituting and managing improvement in patient care and clinical outcomes, medical staff governance and operations issues, and improved financial performance in healthcare organizations. Dr. Sears' focus at Aspen Healthcare Metrics will be to utilize his experience in the practice of medicine and process improvement consulting to assist hospital specialty service lines in controlling physician preference supply item costs while achieving quality of care objectives.
About Aspen Healthcare Metrics
Aspen Healthcare Metrics, based in Englewood, CO, is a hospital margin enhancement company working exclusively in select, high-volume clinical service lines in adult, acute-care hospitals. As a national clinical service line consulting and benchmark data provider, Aspen has worked with hundreds of clinical programs to reduce clinical costs, improve physician-hospital relationships, provide performance analysis, introduce cost savings, and improve patient care processes. Aspen's consultants work with the healthcare provider to implement recommendations and guarantees results in process improvement and margin enhancement. For more information about Aspen Healthcare Metrics, contact Eileen McGinnity, President, Aspen Healthcare Metrics, at 7670 S. Chester Street, Suite 100, Englewood, CO 80112, or www.aspenhealthcare.com.
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For Aspen Healthcare Metrics, Englewood TroneAtlanta Public Relations Rick Toller, 404-266-0899 rtoller@trone.com
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