Her mother is a practice administrator for the department of neurology at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y.
"It takes a lot of time to train someone who is not experienced," said Ingrid Tomney, a practice administrator with Pediatric Cardiology Associates, a medical office in Fairfax, Va., that is a partner with Training Futures and recently hired one of its graduates after a successful internship.
The study notes that if a physician is not a champion, a practice administrator can play that role [ 33].
As a young mother of two, Ms. Holcomb, a medical practice administrator, chose the neighborhood because of its school district, paying $73,000 for her home in 1996.
She is a licensed rehabilitator and holds the title of practice administrator at Animal General; she is not a veterinarian.
Women were introduced to the idea of group prenatal care by the practice administrator during their first phone call to the clinic.
The focus groups used to evaluate the program's feasibility in the participating practices were only conducted with the health coaches involved and the practice administrator most responsible for implementing the program.
More peripheral practices were less likely to have a practice nurse or administrator, and were less likely to be involved in teaching undergraduates or postgraduate students or to have a GP registrar (doctor in training) in the practice.
But the practicalities of making that referral (i.e. providing men with a letter of referral and/or the contact details of a provider of PFMT) were delegated to a practice receptionist or administrator.
The COMPC study used a cross-sectional design where patients, providers and practice administrators were surveyed and chart audits conducted to examine a range of primary care performance parameters.
Practice administrators aimed to add their patients to the DESP lists as soon as possible by letter or fax.
