Press Releases

Carolinas MED- 1 Mobile Disaster Drill at Charlotte’s International Airport The Carolinas MED-1 project was formally initiated in 2003 as a pilot program to fill the void involving mass casualty patient care... Read More

UnitedHealthcare Extends Relationship with Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants
Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants (SAC) and its Quantum Clinical Navigation System division have extended their relationship with UnitedHealthcare, ensuring that UnitedHealthcare commercial health plan participants have continued, in-network access to Consultants’ full scope of affordable, quality anesthesia and pain-management services. Read More

Cornelius doctor in Haiti during quake aftershock
Dr. Art McCulloch of Cornelius was probably doing surgery shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday when a powerful aftershock hit Haiti. His wife, Kim, heard through the family of another member of his team that he and the others are OK. "I feel very comfortable," Kim McCulloch said, knowing that the compound where her husband is working was built to tough U.S. building codes. Read More

SAC Doctor Leads Relief Team to Haiti After hastily recruiting a team of nurses to accompany him to Haiti, Charlotte anesthesiologist Art McCulloch arrived Monday at Operation Double Harvest, a Christian ministry outside Port-au-Prince, where he began working with a surgeon to treat victims. Read More

Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants Merges With Shelby Group Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants, one of the nation’s leading anesthesiology practices, has merged with Shelby Anesthesiology Associates, PA. As a result of the merger, SAC will now provide anesthesia services to Cleveland Regional Medical Center and Cleveland Ambulatory Surgical Center. Read More

Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants Named Alpha Testing Practice for AQI Data Registry Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants (SAC) has become an alpha site for the first national anesthesia data registry developed by the Anesthesia Quality Institute (AQI). Read More

Best Doctors® 2009-2010 Named Seven physicians from Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants have been named “Best Doctors® 2009-2010” by the Best Doctors organization... Read More

Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants Garners Exclusive Contract with Two Area Facilities Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants has become the exclusive provider of anesthesia for endoscopy services at Carolina Digestive Health Associates’ University office and Carolinas Gastroenterology Center’s Ballantyne office... Read More

Giving Back In Hard Times Gets Creative Even with the economy still in a recession, one Charlotte business is still giving back - and in quite a creative way. Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants is sponsoring the BB King concert at The Fillmore on Oct. 6 and giving $12.50 for every ticket sold to the soon-to-be-built Ronald McDonald House... Read More

John Kunysz, FACHE, Joins Quantum Clinical Navigation John M. Kunysz, FACHE, has joined the team at Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants, PA as the Chief Operating Officer for its Quantum Clinical Navigation System? subsidiary... Read More

Jerry Ippolito Join Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants
Gerard “Jerry” Ippolito has joined the team at Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants. Ippolito is the new director of perioperative services and pain management business development. Regarded as one of the nation’s leaders mediating relations between hospitals and physicians, Ippolito has specific expertise in developing hospitals’ surgical programs, increasing surgical case volume and developing anesthesiology programs... Read More

Harry Marino Join Southeast Pain Care Harry Marino has joined the team at Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants. Marino is the new administrator for Southeast Pain Care... Read More

Southeast Anesthesiology Consultant’s CEO Speaks in Latin America
Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants CEO, Dr. Richard Gilbert, spoke at The Healthcare Leaders’ Summit in Chile, Brazil and Argentina last week

The summit is an ongoing, multi-year, continuing education event sponsored by the Latin America Division of the Medical Devices & Diagnostic Group of the Johnson & Johnson Company...Read More

Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants Physicians Honored Four physicians from Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants were named to Charlotte Magazine’s “Best Doctors 2009” list...Read More

Harvard University’s Eighth Annual Quality Colloquium
Dr. Gilbert will speak about the drivers of healthcare quality by discussing Quantum Clinical Navigation System, a division of Southeast. The presentation entitled, "Can A Data-Driven Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) System Change Physician Practice to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Outcomes?" Quantum CNS is a web based quality measurement system developed to measure patient satisfaction... Read More