USACS Announces Annual Clinical Excellence Award Winners

CANTON, Ohio, March 7, 2024 – US Acute Care Solutions (USACS), the nation’s largest physician-owned provider of hospital-based emergency and inpatient medicine, is pleased to announce eight Clinicians who have been named recipients of the National Clinical Governance Board’s (NCGB) Clinical Excellence Award. These recipients were honored during USACS’ annual Assembly meeting held in Denver, CO, last month.

The Clinical Excellence Award was created to recognize outstanding clinical care by individual physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) who do not serve in leadership or management roles and represent each USACS service line. Nominations are submitted year-round by clinical colleagues and are reviewed at the beginning of each calendar year. Recipients are selected and notified before the annual spring Assembly meeting.

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2023 Clinical Excellence Award:

• Matthew Baltz, MD, Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center— Mechanicsville, VA
• Calen Hart, MD, AdventHealth Tampa—Tampa, FL
• Waleed Hussein, MD, Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital—Hollister, CA
• Omar Naji, MD, StoneSprings Hospital Center—Dulles, VA
• Ryan Nguyen, PA-C, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas—Austin, TX
• James (Ian) Richardson, DO, Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center—Mechanicsville, VA
• Nathan Scherer, DO, AdventHealth ER and Urgent Care at Meridian—Parker, CO
• Melissa Volpe, PA-C, Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital—Charlottesville, VA

National Director of Clinical Education and Vice Chair of the NCGB, Roya Caloia, DO, MPH, FACEP, shared, “These are the people you work alongside who make you want to be a better physician or APP. Their efforts and commitment to high-quality patient care remind you of why you chose to go into medicine in the first place. Congratulations to each recipient, I am honored to call each of you colleagues!”