CHARLESTON, SC, June 19, 2015 – SE Healthcare Quality Consulting (SE) has announced a strategic partnership with Saxton & Stump, LLC, a full service health care firm that shares the company’s vision for delivering innovative solutions to accommodate the changing and challenging needs of the healthcare community.
Based in Central Pennsylvania, Saxton & Stump focuses their practice on defending doctors, hospitals and nursing homes in medical professional liability claims and providing risk mitigation and safety consulting services to health care professionals. The firm also provides representation in medical staff matters including credentialing and peer review, licensing and professional board matters and has a broad insurance coverage litigation practice. The Saxton & Stump teams employs 40 professionals including sixteen lawyers, five paralegals, five doctors and six nurses, in addition to health care consultants and strategy and development staff.
“We decided to partner with Saxton & Stump given their unique combination of resources as well as known track record for innovation. James Saxton [CEO of Saxton & Stump] is well known in the surgical community, having been an invited speaker at numerous prominent national meeting,” indicated Dr. Philip R. Schauer, President of SE and the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute of Surgery.
SE Healthcare Quality Consulting is a physician owned, specialty-specific safety and quality improvement company, founded by national and international clinical quality and safety leaders. The SE Board of Directors consists of clinical experts including Philip R. Schauer, MD, Peter B. Cotton, MD, Adrien E. Park, MD, Dennis F. Fowler, MD, MPH, T. Karl Byrne, MD, Peter C. Leport, MD, L. Gregory Pawlson, MD, MPH, FACP, and Richard N. Waldman, MD. James Saxton also serves on SE Quality Healthcare Consulting’s Board of Directors. In addition to the Board, SE also has an Advisory Board which includes leading expertise in other clinical areas such as orthopaedic surgery, spine surgery, emergency medicine and cardiology.