Press Releases

Anesthesia Efficiency is Key Differentiator for SAC Hospitals In 2011 SAC continued to provide hospital and physician partners with efficiencies to help streamline their case loads. Using Quantum Clinical Navigation System™, SAC’s proprietary perioperative quality assurance software, SAC measured 100,775 cases from January 1 through October 31, 2011... Read More

Physician Profile: Richard C. Franklin, MD Richard C. Franklin, M.D. is the Chief of Anesthesiology at Cleveland Medical Center. He grew up in Raleigh, NC and received his bachelors at North Carolina State University. He went to medical school at Wake Forest University and completed his residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is board certified in anesthesiology... Read More

SAC Focuses on Communication to Help Improve Patient Care The importance of communication between healthcare providers continues to grow. The following statistics highlight the importance tied to communication and improving patient care... Read More

Anesthesia Quality Scorecards SAC is sending out personalized anesthesia quality scorecards to all surgeons and physicians who worked on five or more cases with SAC in 2011. These scorecards include case data from January 1 through October 31 of 2011... Read More

SAC Aids Beyond Limits Program with Startup Gift Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants became a premier sponsor helping the YMCA and Carolinas Healthcare System achieve their $50,000 startup goal for a new program called Beyond Limits... Read More

Patient Satisfaction above 99% for all Anesthesia Care Metrics Patient satisfaction continues to be a driving factor in quality of care. Communication is a primary driver of patient satisfaction and the quality of care was significantly better in hospitals... Read More

New Physician Hotline Communication is the cornerstone of excellent patient care. In order to reaffirm our commitment to our hospital and physician partners SAC has formed a communication task force. The task force is identifying ways... Read More

Physician Profile: Stephen Houser, MD Dr. Stephen Houser is the Chief of Anesthesiology for CMC-Union. He went to medical school at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and completed his anesthesiology residency at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital. Houser is board certified... Read More

SAC Sponsors Keeter Stadium & American Legion World Series SAC of Cleveland Regional signed a four year sponsorship deal with Keeter Stadium in Shelby, NC. Keeter Stadium is known for the famous American Legion’s World Series held every August. The American Legion was chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919... Read More

Excellence in Health Care: Measurements allow practice to boost patient satisfaction. Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants has developed an advanced program for applying continuous quality improvement principles in a medical setting. In the last five years, by using the Quantum Clinical Navigation System... Read More

HealthStream Ranks SAC’s Quality 98th Percentile. In 2010, SAC had Healthstream Research perform an independent survey of 352 physicians and surgeons who utilize our services. The physicians/surgeons represent all of the hospitals, ASCs and endoscopy centers listed in our Quantum CNS database... Read More

A New Year's Resolution That Saves Lives and Costs Nothing Mecklenburg Medicine, January 2011. Dr. Romanoff, MD Article Published – If I told you thatn with a mouse click, you could help prevent half of the accidental deaths that occur in North Carolina each year, would you do it? While you are pondering the question, I would like to explore the doctor-patient relationship... Read More

American Anesthesiology Announces the Acquisition of Charlotte-Based Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants American Anesthesiology, a subsidiary of MEDNAX, Inc., (NYSE: MD) today announced the acquisition of Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants, P.A... Read More

7 Steps for Creating a Viable Pay for Performance Model The rising cost of healthcare has been an ongoing concern of the nation's business community. When the 2001 Institute of Medicine landmark report titled "Crossing the Quality Chasm" revealed that 98,000 hospitalized patients die unnecessarily... Read More

'Tennis Palooza' raises money for schools Two men plan to play tennis for 24 hours to raise money for local schools. Dr. Menkhaus and Coach Watson played tennis (doubles) for 24 hours straight (Friday 5 p.m. - Saturday 5 p.m.)! Read More

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