Cheshire Medical Center has added two new positions, both reporting directly to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cherie Holmes and serving as members of the Medical Center’s leadership team.
Rachel Lovins, MD, serves as medical director and vice president of Acute Care Services and Michael O’Shea, MD, leads Ambulatory Care Services as medical director and vice president. In these new roles, Lovins and O’Shea work collaboratively with other executives and clinical leaders across the organization to create best-in-class systems and key performance metrics that establish standards of quality and value care. They also play leadership roles in the improvement of patient services, physician alignment and satisfaction, and lead evidence-based programs, practices and activities that deliver quality, service and financial results.
As medical director and vice president of Acute Care Services, Lovins oversees the clinical quality and medical standards of care for Acute Care Services at Cheshire Medical Center while spearheading clinical initiatives aimed at improving quality and safety outcomes across the continuum of care.
Prior to Cheshire, Lovins served as chair of the Department of Medicine and medical director for Palliative Care at Middlesex Health in Middletown, Connecticut. She earned her Doctor of Medicine from Yale University School of Medicine, where she also served as assistant clinical professor of medicine there from 2003 to 2014. She has more than 15 years of experience in health care leadership.
“Although I trained at a large academic center, I’ve spent my professional life in community hospitals,” Lovins said. “It’s vitally important to me to work at a place that has a true mission to its community. I see that here in everyone I’ve met. I know that Cheshire Medical has already made, and will continue to make, real and deep improvements in the lives of our community and staff. At the same time we are going through exciting changes with our larger Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health community. I am sincerely thrilled to be part of these opportunities and to live in such a naturally beautiful place.”
O’Shea leads the clinical integration and management of Ambulatory Care Services serves as a catalyst for clinical integration, enhancing access, improving practice standardization and reducing the variation of care across the physician enterprise. He also provides leadership and expertise for Cheshire Medical Center large multi-specialty, multi-site physician practice including integration and alignment, clinical quality improvement, medical staff oversight, physician recruitment and leadership development.
He previously served as executive medical director at Trinity Health of New England in Hartford, Connecticut. Prior to Trinity Health, O’Shea was the medical director for Baycare Health Partners in western Massachusetts. O’Shea has maintained an active clinical nephrology practice for more than 20 years and will continue to provide nephrology care to the Cheshire community. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
“I am really excited to be part of a clinical center that is in a growth phase as well as a member of a delivery system that is as interested in the health of its surrounding communities as it is in treating disease,” O’Shea said.
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