February 1, 2012 We're happy to have Dr. Jesse Burch back as our pharmacist after her time away spent getting used to her brand new twins! We are currently working with Jesse on a plan to add another clinical pharmacist to our program hopefully starting this coming summer. Stay tuned!
January 31, 2012 Our last interview for the Class of 2015 took place today. We interviewed over 100 candidates for our six positions and want to extend a big thank you to all of the medical students who took time out of their busy lives to interview with our program. We're glad that you chose to spend time with us, and hope that you had a great time visiting with our program.
January 10, 2012 GO LIVE DAY! The Rose Residency is now "live" with our EMR, "eClinical Works" and we are on track to have all residents and faculty using ECW by the end of February.
January 1, 2012 Happy 2012!
December 31, 2011 The Rose Residency would like to wish all of our best to Dr. Hilary Stevens, whose last day is today. Dr. Stevens joined our intern class this past summer, but after some big life changes (marriage!) is leaving our program to head for California, where we have helped her secure an intern position in a program closer to family and her husband's career. We are sorry to lose you but Happy for your new events! We're now recruiting for a second year resident to join our program in the summer of 2012.
December 22, 2011 We'd like to with everyone a Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
December 20, 2011 Rose is happy to announce that we have just submitted our application for NCQA Level 3 recognition for the Patient Centered Medical Home. Some of the highlights from the application include:
- Tobacco Flow sheet and AAFP tobacco cessation program
- OB Care packets (Red folders)
- Warfarin Registry
- Abnormal lab tracker
- EBMQI process and the Do or Die Website
Way to go Rose Family Medicine!
December 18, 2011 Rose would like to update the news about Dr. Burch and congratulate her once again. We are anxiously awaiting her return to the residency as she returns after welcoming one new baby GIRL and one new baby BOY into her family. I know that she and her husband couldn’t be happier.
December 5, 2011 Dr. Pete Smith picked up the Family Practice Management award for 2011 for Practice Improvement at the STFM conference in California. Congratulations to all in our program for a job well done!
November 24th, 2011 We'd like to extend our best wishes to all for a Happy Thanksgiving!
November 21st, 2011 Interviewing update: We're having a great time interviewing applicants for our program and to date have interviewed 30 great candidates for the class of 2015. If you haven't received an actual interview date but have been already been invited, please check back with Jeanne Rozzo for any potential openings that may occur.
November 14th, 2011 Rose is happy to welcome Jeanne Rozzo to our residency administration team as our Project Coordinator. She's been working for us in a temporary capacity but we are pleased as punch to have her on board with us as a regular employee. Many of you know her from your contacts around interviewing. Please congratulate her!
October 25th, 2011 "Congratulations to Jessie Burch, who is the proud new mother of twin girls! We're super excited and couldn't be happier for her!"
October 17, 2011 Check out the latest picture of Dr. Eric Traister skydiving. Additionally, Eric, who is known for his Ultimate Frisbee talents, has let us know that his team has made it to nationals! Congratulations!
October 4, 2011 Congratulations to the staff at the Rose Family Medicine for outstanding employee satisfaction. Today we received recognition that we received awards related to employee engagement and satisfaction, which is a testimony to the success of our practice changes as we undergo transformation to a patient centered medical home. Specifically: Rose Family Medicine Center received recognition for our Employee Engagement Scores for 2011.
We received recognition as achieving the top score of all hospital departments at Rose Medical Center, and we also received recognition as a department for achieving scores that are in the top 5th percentile for all of the HCA departments nationally/internationally (that is, when compared to thousands of hospital departments among all 166 HCA hospitals nationwide)
Congrats!
October 2, 2011 Rose would like to congratulate our own Dr. Rebecca Burgtorf on her return from her honeymoon and her recent marriage to Josh. Congratulations! She will now, at some point, be changing her lab coat and hospital ID to reflect her new life as "Dr. Bub".
(She's always "Dr. B" either way you look at it)
October 1, 2011 We have received notice that our practice and Dr. Pete Smith have been awarded the 2011 Family Practice Management Award for Practice Improvement by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. The award will be presented at the STFM conference on practice improvement in December. This award recognizes our practice's innovative work around patient safety, data reporting, and collaboration within our hospital system for improved patient outcomes. Way to go!
September 30, 2011 New Pictures! Please check out the link to Creede Pictures 2011 to view some of our latest photos, along with a picture of the infamous Erika Wentarmini driving escapade of late August. The car was REALLY CHALLENGING to dislodge, but not damage done. What the rental car company doesn't know, sometimes, is a good thing.
September 19, 2011 Rose wants to welcome Dr. Nida Awadallah to our faculty. Nida is a 2010 graduate of our program and we couldn't be happier to have her on faculty with us. Welcome aboard!
September 10, 2011 Bill, Eric, Amanda, Laura, and Bridget had the time of their lives and brought fear to their program director's plans for resident retention by skydiving over the northern metro area! It was a great celebration of camaraderie and Colorado, and went perfectly. Please click on the attached link to see some great pictures of Dr. Reeder!
September 1, 2011 Recruiting is underway. Rose FM has opened our residency to ERAS and we are receiving applications from all across the country for our Class of 2015.
August 29-September 2, 2011 The RFMR PGY-1 class, along with Dr. Hartman's, Stern, Bacak, and Erika Wentarmini, spent a fabulous week in Creede, Colorado at the annual PGY-1 retreat. We hiked, mountain biked, cooked, and learned wilderness medicine skills, teambuilding activities, and great ways to commune with nature , all without injuries. (Except to Erika's rental car...pictures coming soon ☺)
August 4, 2011 Rose Family Medicine was recognized by the American Academy of Family Physicians for excellence in Tobacco Cessation. Please "click here" to read the article...
July 27-29, 2011 Select faculty and residents are attending the Colorado Health Foundation's annual Keystone Health Symposium at Keystone. This yearly conference brings together state and national leaders on Health Care systems, reform, and economics for health care policy discussions and conversations on how to improve the health of Coloradans and citizens across the US.
July 25, 2011 EMR update. Our electronic medical record Champion, Dr. Hartman, and her team have made some adjustments to the EMR implementation schedule to allow for system fixes and some fine tuning. During this temporary period over the next several months, select faculty and residents are continuing on eCW while the remainder of the clinic continues in a more traditional pattern with paper charts.
July 24, 2011 Congratulations to our 2011 graduate Dr. Duried Kassab on his new bride, Sherry, on their Sunday afternoon wedding. We're excited as they start their new life together!
July 23, 2011 Upcoming event: On Saturday the 23rd were meeting at the Frisco, CO visitor's center and leaving at noon for a bicycle ride up 10-Mile Canyon. It's all uphill, but the ride back is SWEET.
July 15, 2011 EMR Update: We are 6 weeks into the implementation of eCW. Our third years are soldiering away with paper charts (to keep their patient contacts up and provide our patients access!) while the rest of us are working through templates, interfaces, and order-entry. We couldn't do this without the support of Rose, The Colorado Health Foundation, and our project team of Sherrie, Melissa, Laura, and Anna.
July 2, 2011 Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Connery... not only has she graduated, but more importantly, we want to congratulate her on the birth of her new baby boy Jack! Although technically he was born AFTER graduation, he's still a part of the Rose Family Medicine Family.
July 1, 2011 We are delighted to have Dr. Chris Taggart start with us as faculty. Dr. Taggart is a Palliative Care trained physician from Ohio. Check out his bio on our website!
June 30, 2011 We want to congratulate our Class of 2011 on their accomplishments! Denver, Granby, Aspen, and the great state of Wisconsin are lucky to have our graduating residents and it was a pleasure having Matt, Jenny, Meghan, Duried, Monica, and Andrew pass through our lives. We wish them all the best.
June 23, 2011 Welcome aboard to our new interns: Marianne, Hilary, Rebecca, Carolyn, Erin, and Laura... we loved hosting you for our picnic on the 22nd and we're excited that you are starting your Family Medicine Career with us.
June 18, 2011 Congratulations to our 3rd year residents... the Rose Residency had a WONDERFUL graduation ceremony at the Marriott in Park Meadows. We were proud to host the event for all the residents and their families... who flew in from all across the country, and even a few from overseas. We wish them well in their new careers post residency!
June 1, 2011 The practice goes LIVE with eClinical Works... stay tuned for continued updates!
May 26, 2011 Congratulations to our Executive Director, Preston Ems, on his marriage to Jeannine! We're all really excited for them as they begin a new chapter in their life. The ceremony at Hudson Garden's was beautiful, and the DJ spun both Rap and 80's Rock Ballads... who suspected we'd hear both genre's mixed together with Jason Mraz! Congrats!
April 30, 2011 The residency would like to recognize Jessie Burch, PharmD, our clinical pharmacist, for her recognition as the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy 2011 Faculty of the Year. This honor is well-deserved. Congratulations!
April 27, 2011
Check out the latest from Pete Smith on our Patient Centered Medical Home Experience!
I had the pleasure of joining nearly 1300 Family Medicine educators from 10 countries at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Annual Spring Conference in New Orleans this past week. STFM is always a fantastic opportunity to glimpse the cutting edge of Family Medicine teaching across the country and beyond. Although I always come away from STFM with a slew of new ideas, this year I was struck by how much we are doing under the banner of the Patient Centered Medical Home here at Rose Family Medicine that is already far out at the front of the curve: integrating pharmacy, case managers, and behavioral health; data-driven continuous quality improvement; advanced chronic disease management; teaching practice innovation; coping effectively with a multi-lingual world; developing solutions for safe transitions of care, population management, multi-practice learning collaboratives; care plans and birthing plans; chronic pain management; using mid-level providers; practice coaches; chronic disease registries; patient safety initiatives and near-miss reporting; leadership development; the list goes on and on!
April 19, 2011 WE ARE LIVE on our new electronic medical record, or EMR. Today we implemented the practice management piece of our new EMR and even did a few e-prescriptions. We'll be going live with our complete record in June of this year. Stay tuned for updates!
April 11, 2011 Rose Family Medicine is happy to announce that Jeremy Orr, MD, a graduate of our 2004 class, is joining our program as part-time teaching faculty. Jeremy brings EMR expertise and private practice experience to our group, and is a welcome addition. Welcome aboard, Jeremy!
April 1, 2011
Rose Medical Center was ranked in the top five in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals Metro Area Rankings" for the Denver Metro Area.
Rose ranked fourth in the Denver metro area in U.S. News & World Report's first-ever Best Hospitals rankings, available online at www.usnews.com/
hospitals. To be ranked in its metro area, a hospital had to score in the top 25 percent among its peers in at least one of 16 medical specialties. The new rankings recognized 14 hospitals in the Denver metro area with a record of high performance in key medical specialties.
March 18, 2011 The Residency is proud to welcome the newest members of our program: the incoming intern Class of 2014: Rebecca Burgtorf, DO, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA, Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, Marianne Lopez, MD, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, Erin Schafer, MD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, Hilary Stevens, MD, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, CA, and Laura Webster, MD, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY.
March 15, 2011 Rose Family Medicine is happy to announce that we have filled all 2011 PGY-1 positions in the National Residency Match. Congratulations to our new group! We'll update the list of our new residents shortly... please stay tuned!
February 17, 2011 Special recognition goes out to Rose Family Medicine's Residency Director, Brian Bacak, MD. He has received the 2011 Teacher of the Year Award from the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians outstanding teaching and transformational leadership. The award will be presented at the CAFP's Annual Scientific Assembly in Colorado Springs on April 16th. Congratulations!
February 17, 2011 The residency, along with Rose Medical Center, The Colorado Health Foundation, and the University of Colorado, hosted a gathering that showcased the Residency's 40th anniversary of continued accreditation. The event was a wonderful success and gave everyone a chance to socialize and re-connect, including a graduate of our very first class. Thanks to all for making the program such a huge success.
February 2, 2011 Accreditation news: Rose Family Medicine is happy to report we have received notice of a 4 year reaccreditation cycle! On February 17th, we are marking the 40th year of continuing ACGME accreditation as a Family Medicine program, and so this news is particularly exciting. Our goal has been and continues to be one of training the best Family Medicine physicians possible. Receiving this regular, full, and unrestricted accreditation is validation of our energy, initiative, and commitment to providing our residents with the best education possible.
January 25, 2011 Board Certification news: Rose Family Medicine is proud to announce a 100% first time pass rate on the American Board of Family Medicine's board certification examination for the class of 2010. Way to go!
January 17, 2011 Graduating resident news: Monica Morris, DO, will be heading back to her hometown in Westminster, CO to work at Kaiser Permanente after completing her residency this summer. Congratulations, Monica!
Congratulations to Jenny Connery, MD. She'll be joining a private practice group in Aspen and Basalt next summer after she graduates.
January 6, 2011 Congratulations to Dr. Matt Leiszler, a member of the class of 2011 and one of our Chief Residents, on matching for a Sports Medicine Fellowship! He'll be completing his fellowship right here in Denver at the University of Colorado's Primary Care Sports Medicine program. We're going to love to continue to work with you and look forward to the New Year.
January 1, 2011 Happy New Years! The residency would like to welcome Dr. Christopher Taggart as a new faculty member, who will be joining us in July of 2011. Dr. Taggart is a graduate of the Family Medicine Residency in Akron, Ohio at the Summa Health System, and is completing a Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Care, also in Akron. Welcome aboard!
December 1, 2010 Congratulations to Dr. Krista Ault, a member of the fabulous class of 2012, on the birth of her new baby boy, Jacob ("Jake")... on November 16th. A wonderful addition to our residency family!
November 30, 2010 We're through with our first full month of residency interviews, and we've enjoyed meeting the folks we may work with next year. This year, we've got approximately 110 interviews scheduled, with occasional openings as people readjust their travel plans. Not surprisingly, we plan to be busy with interviewing through the months of December and January. Thanks to all of those applicants who have signed up to interview with us. We think we have a wonderful program, and we are proud to show it off!
November 15, 2010 Please congratulate Pete Smith, MD, on his new appointment as our Interim Associate Director. Pete's been with the residency for over a decade, and serves as our director for both patient safety and the patient centered medical home.
November 1, 2010 Please congratulate our Program Coordinator, Pam Sullivan, on being awarded her Initial Certification from TAGME (Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education) as a certified Program Administrator with added qualifications in Family Medicine. This certification is impressive! Pam qualified for the certification through completion of a standardized exam on Graduate Medical Education program administration, participation in GME activities at the regional and national level, and presentation at regional conferences on GME related issues. Currently, only 16 other Family Medicine Program Coordinators, out of 480 or so programs, have met the TAGME qualifications for certification. We've always known we had a high-performer. She's wonderfully deserving of this honor. Congratulations, Pam!
October 18, 2010 A big Rose Family Medicine round of applause to Jackie Stern for hosting our fall get-together at her house yesterday evening. Great food and camaraderie, (blunting but not completely eliminating the pain caused by the Broncos loss to the Jets... but here's to the 59 yard Bronco field-goal anyway!) and a wonderful chance to further meet all of the significant others who stand behind our residents and faculty.
On the recruiting front, out of 375 applicants, we've got 110 interviews scheduled for our upcoming recruiting season. We look forward to meeting each and every one of you!
October 13, 2010 Rose serves the community in a different way Please see the PDF to the Colorado Health Foundation's "The Huddle" discussing the residency's Creede Experience mentioned on September 23rd.
September 23, 2010 The Rose Family Medicine Class of 2013 just completed their "Basics of Family Medicine" month including the residency's annual (eleven years in a row) trip to Creede, Colorado, for team building, lectures on everything from diabetes to wilderness medicine, and group activities. As a group, we framed a house for "Habitat for Humanity" and it is sure to withstand those cold winter winds that will soon be moving in.
September 9, 2010 Our very own faculty member, John Hill, received the highly coveted and elusive "Leadman" Buckle for his recent completion of the Leadville 100: Made up of a 100 mile mountain bike race in under 12 hours, a 100 mile run, a 10-K run, a marathon, and a 50 mile ultra-marathon... all at above 10,000 feet, all running over consecutive weekends. Congratulations John! Thanks to Vanessa Rollins, our psychologist, for her midnight pacing on the 100 mile run somewhere just past of mile marker 72, and to John, for the spirit he brings to our residency. A special accomplishment since missing out on last year's buckle by something like 8 minutes too long cumulatively over all events.
September 2, 2010 We are happy to announce that our Executive Director of Operations and faculty extraordinaire, Preston Ems, is now official engaged! He and Jeannene have our congratulations and best wishes! and hope that the next year of wedding planning goes off without a hitch.
August 23, 2010 Summer is winding to a close and we are now preparing for the annual intern retreat and teambuilding adventure in Creede, Colorado. The aspens will be changing and the events will be fun as always. Congratulations to our 3rd year resident, Monica Morris, for her selection as a resident representative on the Board of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians. Her first (long 8 hour meeting) was on August the 8th, led by our very own program director... Brian Bacak... also the Chair of the CAFP for this year... and she survived. It will prove to be an exciting year!
June 7, 2010 Welcome to Lori DePriest, newest member of our residency program support team. Lori comes to us with over six years experience as residency program assistant at the Southwest Georgia Family Medicine Residency at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, Georgia. She will utilize her valuable skills as our new Residency Project Coordinator.
June 5, 2010 Rose Family Medicine celebrates it's 40th year of accreditation as a Family Medicine Program. Please check out the blog. It's an awesome feeling to have trained family physicians for four decades!
June 5, 2010 marks the 40th year of the Rose Family Medicine Residency at Rose Medical Center! We first received our accreditation on June 5th, 1970. Congratulations and well-wishes to all who have made this partnership so successful over 4 decades of educating family medicine physicians.
June 1, 2010 The Rose Family Medicine Residency bids goodbye to one of our longtime faculty, Marc Grushan, MD. Marc has been with the Rose Residency for more than a decade, and is moving from a position as residency faculty to a private practice opportunity in Boulder. Marc will be part of a group that makes house-calls to the elderly and home-bound, and is excited about his new opportunity but will miss RFMR immensely. Marc leaves behind a legacy of education and contributions to the Rose program that will benefit our program for decades to come, and we will miss you! Best of luck in your new endeavor! (A search for new faculty is underway!)
April 1, 2010 Rose Medical Center has been named as a Top 100 hospital by Thomson Reuters for 2009. This is the 3rd year in a row that Rose has received this honor and Rose is the only Colorado hospital to be recognized this year. Rose is one of only 4 HCA hospitals nationwide to receive this recognition. The ranking is based on clinical quality, operating efficiency, and financial performance, and is compiled by Thompson Reuters through a review of publically available data to include Medicare quality reports.
Mar 22, 2010 Rose Family Medicine is excited to welcome our new Class of 2013 ! Please welcome us in congratulating Bill Chisholm, MD (UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School), Carol Kerr, MD (University of Colorado School of Medicine), Lynley Rader, DO (Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences), Amanda Reeder, MD (University of Nebraska College of Medicine), Bridget Shariat, DO (Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine), and Eric Traister, MD (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine). We are looking forward to their arrival to our program as we start our new academic year.
Dec 1, 2009 Rose Family Medicine would like to welcome our newest faculty member, Chandra Hartman, MD. Chandra joins us from the Salud Community Clinic network in Denver, where she has been working as a community medicine physician and part time teacher for the last 4 years. She is a welcome addition to our teaching staff and we look forward to her new energy and enthusiasm!
Oct 19, 2009 Pam Sullivan, our Program Coordinator, was recently nominated for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) "GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award" by The Colorado Health Foundation and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Her nomination for this award reflects her outstanding work on behalf of our program, hospital, and the University.
Oct 10, 2009 Rose Medical Center was recognized for clinical excellence in a recent study by HealthGrades comparing top rated hospitals across the country. For more information, click here.
Oct 5, 2009 Rose Family Medicine wants to recognize our very own Medical Assistant, Christy Roberts, for her hard work. She was named "Rose Medical Center Employee of the Month" for October 2009. This is a tremendous honor and is just one illustration of the wonderful employees who work in our Family Medicine Center and support our residency on a daily basis.
Sep 10, 2009 Our first year residents and several faculty returned to Denver after spending a week on our annual team-building exercise in Creede, Colorado. It was a great week marked by a trip to the top of Handies Peak (14, 053 feet high), some mountain biking, beautiful scenery, and lots of tasty food and treats. This marked our 10th year in Creede and we are already making plans for next year.
Aug 1, 2009 Our program is set to welcome Dr. Chandra Hartman (MD) as our newest faculty member. Chandra will be joining us as full time faculty and will start on December 1st. She is joining us from a community health center and will be a welcome addition to the Rose Residency.
July 1, 2009: The residency wants to congratulate its Program Director, Dr. Brian Bacak, as he takes the reins as President of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians, an 1800 member organization dedicated to the specialty of family medicine.
Jun 20, 2009: The residency would like to welcome its new residents, who start their rotations on June 23rd, and congratulate our outgoing residents on a job well done. The members of the Class of 2009 and their future plans include: Charlene Borja, DO, going to Ponderosa Family Medicine, Aurora; Erin Hekmatpour, MD, doing Locum Tenens, long term plan - overseas missions; Amber Koch-Laking, MD, going to Westwood Family Medicine, Denver; Lorraine Rufner, MD, going to SALUD Family Medicine, Ft. Lupton; Alicea Wu, MD, going to Metropolitan Medical Group, San Francisco, CA
May 19, 2009: The Rose residency participated in a state-wide forum devoted to the Patient Centered Medical Home(PCMH) and will participate in the pilot project overseen by the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative (CCGC). During this process, the residency will evolve into a practice that is focused on team-based care, solid quality improvement, and patient satisfaction in a model consistent with the principles of the PCMH.