Transforming Patient Care, Together

One of NES' hardest hit Emergency Departments, Trinitas Regional Medical Center in New Jersey, ceremoniously discharged their 500th patient. As they do with all COVID discharges, “Here Comes the Sun” played over the loudspeaker and onlookers clapped with excitement and emotion. NES’ Leadership team, along with every NES Site Medical...

Emergency Department Staffing and Management Pioneer Dr. Paul Brizendine Receives Legacy Award

NES Health's Cheif Executive Officer, Jennifer Moore and Cheif Medical Officer, Dr. Steven Wexler posing with Legacy Award recepiant, Dr. Paul Thomas Brizendine at NES' Annual Medical Directors Academy. NES Health Regional Medical Director, Paul Thomas Brizendine, was recently honored at NES’ Medical Directors’ Academy held in Port St. Lucie,...

Finding Meaning in your Medical Career

We have all had experiences with doctors who left us feeling uplifted and positive. These practitioners interact with everyone with warmth, wit, and charm and they are beloved by their patients and nurses alike. In one recent personal experience, I had the opportunity to interact with a young neurologist who...

Creating Leaders Within Your Organization

Every organization needs a cadre of empowered leaders, ideally everyone who work for the institution would be a leader even if this utopian vision is rarely accomplished in real life. So what constitutes a leader? How do you identify prospective leaders? A leader can be described as someone who is...

Charting a Course for Your Career

A New Year brings a time of reflection and for many people it’s a time to look at what their goals are and how they plan to achieve them. Planning for your career is a smart thing to do. We all know that landing the first job is about luck...

Dr. Keri Gardner explores the importance of docs understanding that they can be the captain of their ER, but can’t do it all. Copy

Captains, Call for Help! By: Keri Gardner, MD, MPH, FACEP Keeping an ED running smoothly shouldn’t be a one person job.  “Loneliness is the penalty of leadership….”  -Ernest Shackleton   Fresh out of residency, I headed for my first job in a community hospital in Los Angeles where the ED...