Keystone Partners with Anderson Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department


April 25, 2019

Meridian, MS

Keystone Healthcare Management, a growing and innovative provider of Emergency Medicine and Hospital Medicine physician staffing and management services, has announced a partnership with Anderson Regional Medical Center (ARMC) to provide Emergency Medicine staffing and management services. Keystone began managing the Hospitalist program.at ARMC in March 2017.

ARMC is located in Meridian, Mississippi. The hospital was first opened by a local doctor as Anderson Infirmary in 1928, with 30 beds. It is now a 400-bed facility, with 30,000 annual ED visits.

This further partnership between Keystone and ARMC will help the hospital continue to serve the medical needs of the community, while improving communication and synergy between departments. Keystone will provide a Medical Director, board-certified physicians and advanced practice providers, as well as industry best practices for managing the department.

“We have established a good working relationship with Keystone through their effective management of our Hospital Medicine program. We look forward to the successes that will come from expanding that relationship into Emergency Medicine,” said John G. Anderson, President and CEO, Anderson Regional Health System.

“We are very excited to continue to grow and strengthen our relationship with Anderson Regional Health System,” said Dr. Hatem Mourad, Keystone’s Director of Hospital Medicine and ARMC’s HM Site Medical Director. “We believe that our integration of EM and HM services will continue our mutual success in the delivery of excellent medical care to the community we serve. ARHS have been an outstanding partner and we are proud to be a part of such a great organization.”

Keystone assumed staffing and management responsibilities of the Emergency Department starting April 1, 2019.

About Keystone

Keystone Healthcare Management has provided leading-edge solutions in Emergency Medicine Management since 1996 and Hospital Medicine Management since 2005. Keystone provides a full range of practice management, billing and administrative services for EM and HM practices. We help our clients overcome the many challenges of the modern healthcare marketplace. We focus on helping to properly align EM & HM clinical services with the quality and performance requirements you must meet.

The Keystone team becomes an important extension of the hospital’s structure, ensuring that your EM & HM services perform at required levels and deliver proper reimbursement, compliance, and satisfaction. To be successful, hospitals must align EM & HM Services from both a quality and budgetary standpoint. With this goal in mind, we will partner with your facility to improve EM and HM quality, safety, satisfaction, efficiency and resource utilization.

To learn more about partnership opportunities with Keystone, call Don Booth at 1-800-839-8493 or contact us.