Family Medicine Physician with 1st Choice Healthcare since 2007 and Associate Medical Director at 1st Choice Healthcare since 2017. Duties as a clinical staff member include providing acute and chronic outpatient care to patients of all ages. Duties as AMD include supervising 30+ full time family medicine and pediatric physicians, behavioral health providers, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners at six different clinic sites throughout six different counties in rural Arkansas.Additional duties include providing oversight to the Quality Director, Chief Nursing Officer, Lab Director and approximately 80 full time nursing staff, lab and x-ray staff at the clinic sites. Duties also include conducting a montly peer review process, preparing yearly FTCA re-deeming applications, contributing to grant applications, preparing for and hosting accreditation teams, maintaining Joint Commission Accreditation for all clinic and laboratory sites, addressing patient and staff complaints and safety issues, reviewing. updating, or developing new policies and procedures, preparing for and participating in administrative and monthly board meetings, preparing for and conducting monthly provider meetings. preparing for and developing programming for biannual All Staff Trainings, and travel to regional and national conferences as needed. Recent projects include 1. Developing and training staff to utilize an updated and uniform EMR Downtime Procedure.