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Dr. Stasia Wieber, sleep medicine expert and director of the Fairfield County Sleep Center, will present a free lecture titled “Sleep Right Tonight” to the Westport Rotary Club on Tuesday, September 27 at Bertucci’s restaurant in Westport, CT at 12:00 noon. The focus of the presentation is on sleep disorders, and the general public is welcome at a $20 fee, which includes lunch.

Dr. Wieber received her medical degree from the State University of New York, Health Science Center, at Brooklyn, and completed her residency and postdoctoral training at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and Director of the Comprehensive Center for Sleep Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

In practice since 1999, Dr. Wieber has authored and contributed to more than a dozen research articles published in leading medical journals. She appeared on NBC’s “The Today Show” to discuss insomnia treatment options, as well as ABC’s “Night Line” to discuss Kleine Levin syndrome. She hopes to raise public awareness of sleep disorders and their link to other serious health problems, such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.

For a follow-up to this sleep lecture, visit WestportNow.

featuring Amit Rastogi, M.D., President of PriMed, LLC.

As organizations struggle to navigate through the regulations surrounding ACOs, learn first-hand how PriMed has developed a successful physician led ACO strategy enabling them to productively and rapidly align physicians.

Understanding the benefits of providing coordinated care before it became popular, PriMed looked to align with other local physicians in order to provide quality care while maintaining costs and achieving rational reimbursement levels.

What You’ll Learn:

How to successfully develop a physician led ACO

How physician alignment can improve quality of care

Common pitfalls to avoid when starting out

How to successfully work with insurance companies

How to continue growing during healthcare reform

PriMed offers a new approach to help achieve more integrated and regimented care by offering local practices group accountability for quality and costs through performance measurement and “shared savings” payment reform.

PriMed began in 1996 as a primary care group consisting of board certified internal medicine and family practice physicians. The group was formed in response to market pressures surrounding access and reimbursement. PriMed is a unified group practice governed by a fifteen member Management Committee. While PriMed operates as a unified group, it does provide significant autonomy for physicians to govern activities within their practice location. Each practice location operates as an independent profit/loss center. As such, every practice has autonomy over their financial decisions.

View the webinar that took place on June 8:

Every year, National Nurses Week focuses attention on the diverse ways America’s 3.1 million registered nurses work to save lives and to improve the health of millions of individuals. This year, the American Nurses Association (ANA) has selected “Nurses Trusted to Care” as the theme for 2011. PriMed is pleased to recognize our RNs that contribute to our patients in so many ways.

Annually, National Nurses Week begins on May 6, marked as RN Recognition Day, and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of nursing as a modern profession. In honor of National Nurses Week and RN Recognition Day, registered nurses around the country are encouraged to wear the official “RN Pin.”

ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting economic and general welfare, promoting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and lobbying Congress and the regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.

PriMed has 52 RNs across their 20 locations. “We are proud to honor all our registered nurses for their hard work and dedication to PriMed and the patients they serve every day,” says Dr. Amit Rastogi, President of PriMed. “It’s important to take time out to thank, recognize and acknowledge our outstanding nursing staff for all that they do.”

Traditionally, National Nurses Week is devoted to highlighting the diverse ways in which registered nurses, who comprise the largest health care profession, are working to improve health care. From bedside nursing in hospitals and long-term care facilities to the halls of research institutions, state legislatures, and Congress, the depth and breadth of the nursing profession is meeting the expanding health care needs of American society.