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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.

Thomas Hale, M.D., Ph.D., participated in panel discussion on telemedicine and electronic medical records as they pertain to the management of the chronically ill during an episode of the KETC Channel 9 series, Remaking Missouri Medicine. The national series, Remaking American Medicine (which will air in September on KETC), tells the stories of people struggling with the challenges facing our health care system. In partnership with Primaris (Missouri's Quality Improvement Organization) and community partners throughout the state, KETC's local companion series, Remaking Missouri Medicine, explores the health care challenges Missouri faces. Stories for the local programs come from throughout the state.

 


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.

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.

 

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
St. Peters, MO 63376
Phone: 636-928-5950

SJMMG pediatricians, Tracey Daly-Wilson, M.D., Sandeep Rohatgi, M.D., and Douglas Sakmar, M.D., together with pediatric nurse practitioner, Rebecca Bartholomew, RN, MSN, CPNP, have relocated to a new building:

12348 Old Tesson Road, Suite 160
St. Louis, MO 63128
Phone: 314-467-3800



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
Marc Merbaum, M.D.
Pilaipun Jane Saengsamran-Williams, M.D.
12680 Olive Blvd, #100
St. Louis, MO 63141
Phone: 314-251-8900


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.

 

 

 


 

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