CEO Update: Physician assistants increase patient access to care

Physician assistants are essential to providing quality health care throughout CMH’s health system.

A physician assistant provides medical care under the supervision and direction of a physician. At CMH, physician assistants are in the emergency room, family medicine clinics and walk-in clinics, providing immediate care. In our surgical specialty clinics, they support our surgeons in the operating room and the clinics.

Physician assistants play a vital role in providing care at CMH. They provide compassionate, high-quality care for our patients. They also allow us to have access to care for patients that otherwise wouldn’t have access. We have a physician shortage in the United States. Physician assistants allow us to have more providers on the care team. We can help more patients, spend more time with them and give them better care.

CMH Physician Assistants

I want to especially thank our physician assistants for the great care they provide to our patients. We couldn’t do what we do as an organization without our physician assistants. We appreciate the work they do and the way they work with high quality and compassion.

Watch the video to meet all of CMH's physician assistants:

• • Scott Adler, PA-C, Dallas County Family Medical Center and Walk-In Clinic
• • Stephanie Aug, PA-C, CMH Orthopedic & Spine Center
• • Magen Blades, PA-C, Willard Medical Center and Walk-In Clinic
• • Chad Carrel, PA-C, CMH Surgical Services
• • Jake Condren, PA-C, CMH Orthopedics & Spine Center
• • Scott Dennis, PA-C, Bolivar Family Care Center
• • D.J. Edwards, PA-C, Stockton Family Medical Center
• • Glenn Gardner, PA-C, El Dorado Springs Medical Center and Walk-In Clinic
• • Melissa Gibbs, PA-C, Hospitalist
• • Scott Gibbs, PA-C, Parkview Geriatric Wellness
• • Matthew Havens, PA-C, Butterfield Park Medical Center
• • Amber Herring, PA-C, CMH Orthopedic & Spine Center
• • Brandi Hume, PA-C, Emergency Medicine
• • Jesse Larbey, PA-C, CMH Urology Surgical Clinic
• • Joshua Macken, PA-C, CMH Surgical Services
• • Robert McGowin, PA-C, Stockton Family Medical Center and El Dorado Springs Medical Center and Walk-In Clinic
• • Retha Melton, PA-C, CMH Orthopedic & Spine Center
• • Leigh O’Connor, PA-C, Bolivar Family Care Center
• • Caressa Patel, PA-C, CMH Neurology and Headache Center
• • Erin Payne, PA-C, Willard Medical Center and Walk-In Clinic
• • Ryan Pock, PA-C, CMH Walk-In Clinic
• • Jamie Schoolcraft, PA-C, Emergency Medicine
• • Hannah Schumann, PA-C, CMH Endocrinology Center
• • Jennifer Stigers, PA-C, CMH Surgical Services

Michael Calhoun shares the latest happenings at CMH in his monthly CEO Updates. He is the CEO/executive director of CMH and the Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation.