Imagine dealing with a difficult challenge at work and thinking to yourself, “I sure wish my boss could see what I’m dealing with right now.” At ApolloMD, that wish is an everyday reality because of the company’s structure as an employee-owned enterprise.

In 2023, ApolloMD provided me the opportunity to attend the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in Chicago, a melting pot of innovation in the health care sector. The conference featured numerous discussions about one common subject – Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health care.

Based on an eloquent essay, an extraordinary commitment to emergency medicine, and experience gained at one of Brooklyn’s busiest emergency departments, Bilal Shaukat, DO, is the winner of ApolloMD’s 6th Annual Emergency Medicine Residency Scholarship.

The ApolloMD Emergency Medicine Administrative Fellowship is an immersive two-year program for new and recent emergency medicine residency graduates with an interest in emergency medicine administration, operations, and department leadership. The comprehensive program provides hands-on involvement and mentorship that prepares residency graduates with leadership, administrative, quality, risk management, research, and operational skills to lead an emergency department, hospital, or health care system.

For the three years that she has worked as a physician assistant (PA) at an ApolloMD partner hospital in rural North Carolina, Noelle Griffin has focused on key aspects of her career:
● Taking excellent care of the patients who visit the emergency room
● Taking advantage of ApolloMD-offered education and training opportunities to learn, sharpen, and leverage new skills — especially for treatments or procedures that are not common or available at her community hospital
● Focusing on a leadership position at ApolloMD

The most meaningful health care awards are those that come from patients. ApolloMD congratulates our own Jesse Ellsworth, MD, an emergency medicine physician at our partner Novant Kernersville Medical Center in Kernersville, NC.

ApolloMD has created the position of Patient Experience (PX) Coordinator in select partner hospital EDs to turn those stressful, difficult ED patient experiences into tolerable, manageable. and even pleasant encounters. The PX Coordinator serves as a liaison between the health care professionals who provide emergency care and the often anxious, injured, or stressed patients in the treatment and waiting rooms