She has worked in most aspects of medicine, including both inpatient and outpatient settings. For the past fifteen years, DeeAnn has worked with a large variety of physician groups across the nation helping them incorporate successful Group Medical Appointments into their practices. She uses her innovation of Group Medical Appointments and her vast array of skills to enhance the patient's and phys
ician's experience of healthcare. As a facilitator of change, DeeAnn creates an environment for patients and physicians to learn not only from herself, but also from each other. With the added support of a group, patients in Group Medical Appointments make changes in weeks that they had not been able to make in years. Physicians experience joy in practicing medicine again; some physicians said Group Medical Appointments kept them from leaving medicine. Patient satisfaction and access to physicians has greatly increased due to Group Appointments. Physicians like GMA's as they can leverage their time by at least 200%. DeeAnn has also written, implemented, and supervised other programs dealing with Integrative Medicine, Chronic Pain and Chronic Disease Management, specifically dealing with the topics of asthma, anticoagulation, nutrition and exercise for seniors, memory, sleep, diabetes…. These programs can be used with GMAs, part of an Integrative Medicine program or separately. They focus on giving patients the tools necessary to better manage chronic conditions and how to partner effectively with healthcare professionals. All of this relates directly to Change Management. DeeAnn has developed a change management program based on Trust, Relationship, Plan and Feedback. She has used this foundational concept to provide training to physicians and their staff on working with patients to obtain doable action plans that directly pertain to their quality of health. She has also used this concept to work with all levels of employment to implement organizational change and in the process build better communication pathways. This has been especially successful in the implementation of Electronic Health Records.
