John Alden

• Provided telemedicine consultations for remote patients who could not travel to the clinic in person, improving access to care within the region.

medical director of hospice in joplin mo, lamar mo and pittsburg ks from 2008 to 2023

• Instructed patients and families on medical diagnoses and treatment options.
• Developed strong rapport with colleagues and staff members, promoting teamwork within the workplace environment.
• Assessed, diagnosed and treated emergency and chronic medical conditions.

consulted and directed the hospital palliative care program

Returned as attending physician with full complement of family medicine both outpatient and inpatient

• Diagnosed complex cases by ordering appropriate tests and interpreting results accurately, ensuring timely intervention.
• Delivered emergency treatment on-site and responded appropriately in urgent or emergency situations.
• had busy obstetrical practice performing vag deliveries, cessarean sections (after going back for training) and post partum tubal ligations. This included newborn care as well
• managed critical are patients. performed procedures on my patients as well as other physician patients including intubation and ventilator management, arterial lines, central lines, thorocostomy chest tubes, paracentesis and thorocentesis. Also performed the bone marrow biopsies for the hospital

• Recruited back to assume Director position
• I recruited full compliment of Emergency Department Physician staff then stepped down as Director to Attending Physician.

• Level 1 Trauma Center, provided care as an attending and also involved in teaching of medical students and residents.
• this was a part time position

• Received excellent training in high risk obstetrics, surgical obstetrics, and surgical gynecology
• Performed 63 C-Sections as primary surgeon and 17 as assistant, 136 vaginal deliveries as primary and 27 as assistant and 21 bilateral tubal ligations as primary.
• taught interns and medical students on performing newborn circumcisions

• Single physician coverage in an Emergency Department with an annual volume of 15,000 patients
• Newly formed position in 1990, turnaround operation where quality of care, professional/lay relations and census improvements occurred
• Responsibilities included project development, physician recruitment, billing and charge structuring, public relations, and design and involvement in construction planning of a new Emergency Department
• Responsible for the education of residents, medical students, nursing students, and pre-hospital personnel
• Also served as Medical Director for hospital based EMS and local outlying EMS services
• During this tenure served on Executive Committee, Medical-Surgical Quality Improvement Committee, EMS Committee, and Education Committee.

Full scope of family practice and emergency medicine...procedures included endoscopy

• Total general practice which included critical care and busy obstetrical practice
• Over ninety-four vaginal deliveries, including use of vacuum extraction and forcep deliveries
• First assisted all C-Sections, BTL, and TAH
• Managed all critical care patients
• Other privileges included colonoscopy and EGD procedures
• Additionally served as Emergency Department Director and Director of Obstetrics
• Also worked as an Emergency Physician at other institutions.