Brenna Westhoff

Internal Medicine | McLaren Bay Region, Bay City MI

Family Medicine | Scheurer Health, Pigeon MI

General Surgery | MyMichigan West Branch, West Branch, MI

Psychiatry | MyMichigan Midland, Midland MI

Women's Health | MyMichigan Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant, MI

Emergency Medicine | U of M Health Sparrow Lansing, Lansing MI

Pediatrics | MyMichgian Mount Pleasant, Mount Pleasant MI

Great Lakes Plastic Surgery | Munson Healthcare, Traverse City, MI

• Perform stress echocardiograms, nuclear, pharmacological, and exercise stress tests while interpreting real-time EKG results and patient vitals
• Coordinate and manage implantable cardiac device clinic which involves remote monitoring for all pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), and loop recorders
• Obtain prior authorizations for all cardiac tests and procedures ordered by the Cardiologist and Physician Assistants
• Complete billing for the office anticoagulation clinic, process patient co-pays, maintain and order monthly office and medical supplies
• Integrate patient information into EMR systems, schedule patient appointments and diagnostic testing
• Assist patients obtain free medication through complex patient assistant programs, and process cardiac medication refills

• Facilitated nuclear, pharmacological, and exercise stress exams in collaboration with nuclear medicine technologists and cardiac sonographers
• Monitored patient's cardiac rhythms, heart rate, and blood pressure responses to exercise
• Analyzed and informed doctors of critical EKG changes during stress tests

• Performed various stress test, pharmacological and exercise, in combination with nuclear medicine or echocardiograms
• Analyze a patient's medical history by navigating through Nextgen to identify patient's risk factors for their stress test
• Operates cardiac equipment and monitors patient's vitals throughout the procedures

• Explain the function and process of EKG exams to patients prior to the test
• Prepared patients for 12-Lead EKG electrode placement
• Provide physicians with patients test results
• Analyzed and determined critical heart rhythms

• Administered chemical, metabolic, and nuclear stress exams
• Prepared, cleaned, and abraded electrode placement for 12-lead EKGs
• Explained physiological testing procedures and exercise programs
• Monitored patient's cardiac rhythms, heart rate, and blood pressure responses to exercise
• Designed exercise programs to improve participant strength, flexibility, endurance, and circulatory function