Hospital signs with Aligned Providers Wyoming to manage emergency medicine and inpatient service

Recruiting qualified medical personnel has long been a challenge to rural communities. To meet the healthcare needs of the Saratoga community through the North Platte Valley Medical Center (NPVMC), the Platte Valley Healthcare Project has contracted with Aligned Providers Wyoming to staff and manage NPVMC’s emergency and inpatient departments.  

Aligned Providers Wyoming (APW) is an emergency, urgent care, and hospitalist medicine management group formed in 2016 to serve Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s emergency department. Today, they serve more than 13 hospital contracts across Wyoming and Nebraska, including Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie and Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawlins. 

So far, APW has signed three providers for NPVMC according to Board President Joann Bourlier-Childress. Reggie M. Gillens, nurse practitioner; Steven L. Martin, physician assistant; and Christopher Shores, advanced practice nurse practitioner will work as part of the North Platte Valley Medical Center team. Bourlier-Childress said the emergency department would need 4-5 advanced practice providers (APPs) as well as a medical director and practice administrator to fully staff NPVMC’s emergency medicine and inpatient programs.  

Aligned Providers Wyoming offers a customized suite of services and uses its extensive recruiting network to fulfill the clients’ staffing requirements. Bourlier-Childress said Aligned Providers Wyoming plans to recruit full-time providers to serve NPVMC who will be an integral part of the Saratoga community.   

“Our focus on Wyoming, Nebraska and surrounding states has allowed us to build a robust network of candidates with specialized skills and to be able to deploy them efficiently,” Bourlier-Childress said. “When the North Platte Valley Medical Center opens, we’ll be ready.”

 

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