Sanford to share workforce solutions at national conference
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Jon Berg
Sanford Health Media Relations
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Jeremy Cauwels, M.D., chief medical officer at Sanford Health, will join top-level leaders from medical groups and health systems across the country for the American Medical Group Association’s (AMGA) Large Group Executive Summit Jan. 24 in Austin, Texas.
Cauwels will be joined for a panel discussion, Filling the Gaps: Recruitment and Workarounds Addressing Shortages, by Chris Sclafani, president of Summit Health and Rae Vagg, chief operating officer at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The panel discussion will focus on the need for medical groups and health care systems to be creative with recruitment and discover new ways to address the evolving wants and needs of patients.
Cauwels will share how Sanford Health has made an unprecedented expansion in graduate medical education programs to bring clinical expertise, resources and subspecialties to the upper rural Midwest, including a new three-year gastroenterology fellowship program that will launch this summer in Sioux Falls, S.D.
“The new GI fellowship is part of the educational investment funded by a generous gift from Denny Sanford,” said Dr. Cauwels, chief medical officer at Sanford Health. “This allows us to grow our own providers in our own backyard. As the first GI fellowship program in the Dakotas, we know that if we train these future health care providers, there’s a greater chance they’ll stay with us and grow their family in the Midwest and help us advance health care in rural parts of the country.”
Cauwels will also discuss how Sanford’s virtual care initiative, including the recently opened Sanford Virtual Care Center, is serving as a premier training ground for the next generation of clinicians.
Born in South Dakota and raised in northwest Iowa, Cauwels has bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology from the University of Northern Iowa and a medical degree from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He completed his residency and a chief resident year at the University of Kansas in Kansas City, Kansas. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Society of Hospital Medicine.
For more information about Sanford Health, visit SanfordHealth.org.
About Sanford Health
Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization serves 2.4 million patients and more than 425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes 56 hospitals, more than 270 clinic locations, 144 senior care communities, 4,500 physicians and advanced practice providers, nearly 1,000 active clinical trials and studies, and nine world clinic locations around the globe. Learn more about Sanford Health’s commitment to shaping the future of rural health care across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.
