Katherine Sutton Email & Phone Number

Working as a part time solo provider for a retail-based clinic. Responsible for acute care services diagnosing and treating minor illnesses, injuries, sexually transmitted infections/urinary tract infections, minor skin conditions, and uncomplicated mental illnesses. Working in conjunction with patient’s primary care provider to manage chronic health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia. Performing preventative services such as vaccine application to ages seven and up, travel medication consults, sports/administrative physicals, tuberculin skin testing/reading, employer health screenings and yearly health assessments for patients. Responsible for minor clinical management duties including updating clinic inventory, ordering supplies, managing clinic waiting room, cleaning clinic daily, and ensuring continuity of patient care through daily communication with other clinic providers.

Dallas, Tx

Worked as a floating provider for convenient care clinics focusing on patient care for ages eighteen months and older. Worked as a solo provider performing acute care visits and treatment of minor illnesses such as upper and lower respiratory infections, asthma/COPD exacerbations, skin infections and conditions, musculoskeletal injuries, abdominal infections, and gynecological issues. Performed annual wellness exams, sports physicals, and Medicare wellness visits. Worked as a primary care extension clinic in helping to manage chronic illnesses such as diagnosis and management of diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, anxiety/depression. Worked with family practice clinics in the area to manage patients and provide continuity of care by referring patients to specialists for complex conditions and establishing patients within the Baylor network with a primary care provider and medical home.

Arlington, Tx

Worked as a covering solo provider at a retail based health clinic. Responsible for acute care services treating minor illnesses as well as preventative visits including wellness visits, vaccine application, and employer mandated health screenings for ages eighteen months and older. Providing educational materials to patients regarding necessary management for chronic conditions and healthy lifestyle changes. Responsible for minor clinical management duties including updating clinic inventory, ordering supplies, maintaining excellent provider patient communication throughout the entire clinic visit process, managing clinic waiting room, and ensuring continuity of care for clinic patients by communicating with full time clinic providers.

Worked with a team of physicians and clinicians in a busy family practice. Gave primary and urgent care services to all ages. Conducted routine well exams on children and adults, pre-operative exams, and complex follow up exams. Worked primarily at giving urgent/acute care, chronic disease management, and follow up for minor infections, upper respiratory diseases, asthma/COPD exacerbations, acute cardiovascular emergencies, generalized anxiety attacks, and minor gastrointestinal illnesses.

Worked independently as the sole healthcare provider in a worksite clinic for Dal-Tile operated by Concentra. Built the patient practice working with one medical assistant to give primary care and urgent care services to employees and dependents ages 2 and above. Developed new administrative skills of onsite management of a worksite practice through overseeing the clinic operations including patient scheduling, clinic logs, phlebotomy & transport of laboratory specimens, in house procedures, monthly audits, managing inventory, and maintaining a good working relationship with the client and employees. Worked with physician oversight to provide aggressive disease management, prevention, and education, care for minor emergencies, acute care for minor illnesses and injuries, and dietary counseling for obesity related conditions. Conducted annual comprehensive physical exams, pre-operative exams, routine gynecological exams, and complex follow ups for management of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, pulmonary disease, cardiovascular disease. Gave monthly lectures on general health topics and conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, vaccinations, obesity, anxiety, stress management, and prostate cancer for education of the patient population. Worked with a collaborative healthcare team on clinic data analysis, stewardship reports, and strategy planning with the client to manage the health and wellness initiatives for the employee population.

Worked in primary care in a busy family practice serving a racially and economically diverse population. Developed a wide range of clinical skills in managing chronic and acute illnesses in children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients. Conducted annual comprehensive physical exams, acute/urgent care visits, general counseling visits, routine gynecological exams and counseling for hormone replacement therapy, complex follow-ups, pre-operative physical exams, and simple surgical procedures (skin tag biopsy, suture removal, wound care, and lancing cysts). Focused on client education, risk reduction, health promotion, and management of chronic illnesses including hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, depression, cardiovascular disease, neuropathy, arthritis, menopausal disorders, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Worked with a wide range of specialists and subspecialists (neurologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, psychiatrists, surgeons) at coordinating care and managing patient cases. Focused on family and community interventions in patient care and coordinating care and available community resources to help impoverished families. Focused on assessing, treating, and counseling a large and complex population of patients with general psychiatric issues such as mood disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, depression disorders, anxiety disorders, and post traumatic stress disorders. Helped with implementing standardized guidelines for measuring pediatric and adolescent emotional and physical development. Helped with implementing a nutritional, dietary and fitness program for patients aimed at lifestyle changes through natural approaches to improving health.