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Briggs Names New Chief Clinical Consultant for Home Care
DES MOINES, IA (September 27, 2007) - Briggs Corporation today
announced Kristy S. Petersen, RN, CHPN as the new Chief Clinical Consultant for
the home care, hospice and assisted living markets.
Her primary responsibility as one of the leading clinicians on staff is to provide clinical support for the current business plan through new product initiatives, regulatory updates, marketing and advertising strategies, sales team interaction and trainings, customer meetings and by attending industry conferences nationwide.
“Ms. Petersen is passionate about building long-lasting relationships with customers, and her first objective is to prepare for the new PPS and subsequent OASIS changes that will be made by January 1, 2008. We are excited to see her leadership and interpersonal skills being used as a motivating factor in the future initiatives here at Briggs,” states Jim Baker, Marketing Director.A registered nurse, Ms. Petersen comes to Briggs from Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, where she was manager of the Israel Family Hospice House. In that position, she was the only onsite manager responsible for developing the case management model for home care, inpatient and outpatient hospice, developing new policies, managing day-to-day operations, marketing and education.
Prior to that, Ms. Petersen was the Satellite Director of Hospice of Central Iowa, where she supervised operations in five different offices throughout Iowa, managing local employees, assisting in the development and monitoring of fiscal budgets, and maintaining quality control functions for each office.
“I feel honored to be employed by a well-known name such as Briggs in the medical community, and I look forward to the further development of Briggs lines of documentation as well as achieving our sales goals,” states Petersen.
Kristy is an Iowa native, and she currently works and resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Briggs is pleased to have such an enthusiastic and positive individual join the clinical team.
About Briggs
Serving more than 40,000
customers in the senior care, home care, acute care, and physician markets,
Briggs is the leader in providing products and services for maintaining
regulatory compliance, managing risk and achieving clinical excellence. The company provides a comprehensive set
of 6,500 products, including documentation systems, medical products, staff
training and patient education.
Through its network of six distribution centers, the company is capable of
2-day, small-package ground delivery anywhere in the continental U.S. In 2007, Briggs celebrates its 60th year
as a trusted partner to health care professionals. Visit Briggs online at
www.BriggsCorp.com.
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