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SJMMG in the News
SJMMG internal medicine physician, William F. Beaman, M.D. (Des Peres Internal Medicine North), has been named one of three Unity Health Hospice Medical Directors, providing clinical direction and support to multi-disciplinary hospice teams. Dr. Beaman will guide and support the north, south and west St. Louis County teams. “I am very fortunate to have such a dedicated group of physicians,”said Lisa Heisserer, director of Unity Health Hospice. “Each one of them has a true heart for hospice. They work as a part of the hospice interdisciplinary team to allow Unity Health Hospice to be part of patient and families lives and provide quality end of life care.” Dr. Beaman is board certified in internal medicine. He received his medical degree in 1991 from the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Mo., and completed his residency at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis. Dr. Beaman feels that Hospice allows a unique and rewarding opportunity to help patients when they most need it. “We help patients through the last stage of their life and allow for a death with dignity and peace,”he commented. “It is a privilege for me to work with such a great collection of wonderful, compassionate caregivers.” Unity Health Hospice provides vital end-of-life services to more than 1,140 patients and their families each year in St. Louis and Washington, Mo. Hospice is available 24 hours a day to assist with the care of patients, regardless of their age, race, gender, creed, physical condition or ability to pay for services. For more information, please call 314-729-4400 in St. Louis or 1-877-236-8141 in Washington.
SJMMG was recognized recently with a 2005 Environmental Award by Shred-Pro. MMG’s paper recycling activities resulted in 303 trees saved during 2005. Shred-Pro is an on-site document destruction company located in Maryland Heights, Mo. Mercy Family Medicine, part of St. John's Mercy Medical Group, is welcoming two new family medicine physicians to the practice: Sarah Cole, D.O., who joined effective April 17, and Serin Phruttitum, M.D., who will join effective July 5.
Mercy Family Medicine is located in Suite 300 at 12680 Olive Blvd. in Creve Coeur. In addition to Drs. Cole and Phruttitum, the practice includes Peter Danis III, M.D.; Grant Hoekzema, M.D.; James Lord, M.D.; Marsha Mertens, M.D.; and Sandra Minchow-Proffitt, M.D.; St. John's Mercy Medical Group (SJMMG) is a physician-governed group practice affiliated with St. John’s Mercy. SJMMG consists of 150 board eligible and board certified primary care and specialist physicians practicing in 65 locations throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area. . Dr. Robert Bradshaw and Dr. Judith Stucki of Primary Care Pediatrics have closed their Hazelwood, Mo., office and transitioned their North County patients to the practice’s St. Peters location: 107 Piper Hill Drive, Suite 230  On
February 6th, board eligible internal medicine physician, Pilaipun Jane Saengsamran-Williams,
M.D., joined MMG's Creve Coeur Primary Care, located in the St. John's Mercy
Building at Olive and Mason. Dr. Saengsamran-Williams obtained her medical
degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City and
completed her internship and residency at St. John's Mercy Medical Center.
She is a member of the American College of Physicians.
Contact information for the practice appears below: Creve Coeur Primary Care
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Dr.
Cole graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in biology from Truman State
University in Kirksville, Mo. She obtained her medical degree from the Kirksville
College of Osteopathic Medicine, also in Kirksville, and completed her family
medicine residency at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in 2006, serving as Chief
Resident. Dr. Cole is board eligible in family medicine and on staff at St.
John’s Mercy Medical Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Family
Physicians, the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, the American
Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association.
Dr.
Phruttitum obtained his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of
Missouri, Kansas City, and completed his medical degree at the University of
Missouri, Kansas City, School of Medicine. He completed his family medicine
residency at the Michigan State University McLaren Family Practice Residency
Program in Flint, Michigan, serving as Chief Resident. There, he was awarded
the Cyrus Farrehi Award for excellence in academic medicine in both 1998 and
1999. Prior to joining Mercy Family Medicine, Dr. Phruttitum served as a full
time faculty member for the McLaren Family Practice Residency Program and as
an assistant clinical professor for the Michigan State University College of
Human Medicine. He is board certified in family medicine and is a member of
the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Karen
Slattery, F.N.P., G.N.P., a nurse practitioner, has joined Abercrombie
Family Medicine, located at 18 Fox Valley Center in Arnold, Mo. Slattery
completed a geriatric nurse practitioner program, as well as her Master’s
and bachelor’s degrees in nursing, at Rush University in Chicago,
Illinois. She trained as a family nurse practitioner through a post-graduate
program at the University of Missouri, Columbia.Sisters of Mercy Health System
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