Husband, wife physician assistants join CPH as hospitalists to shift burden off primary care doctors
Monday, June 16, 2008, 4:24pm
POTSDAM -- A husband-and-wife team of physician assistants is joining the staff at Canton-Potsdam Hospital in the Hospitalist Department.
Michael and Terri Joyce believe your spouse is likely to be more understanding of the long hours that come with a career in health care if he or she is doing the same job.
The Joyces, husband and wife physician assistants, are part of the new Hospitalist Department at the hospital.
The primary focus of the hospitalists -- physicians and PAs -- is the medical care of hospitalized patients. The Joyces, under the supervision of CPH Hospitalist Dr. Virginia L. Barlow, help manage patients through their stay at the hospital, often seeing patients in the emergency room and admitting them.
Dr. Barlow and the Joyces are helping shift some of the burden of primary care back to the hospital -- a move welcomed by both patients and primary care physicians.
Michael Joyce has an extensive background in hospitalist medicine and health policy administration and has been chosen to be Manager of Hospitalist Operations. He has served as a hospitalist physician assistant and director of "express care" at Charles Cole Memorial Hospital, Coudersport, Penn. He has also been a at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Penn. and at other health care facilities in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Terri Joyce, comes to CPH from Coudersport Primary Care Clinic, Coudersport, Penn. She has worked as a hospitalist physician assistant in emergency departments, urgent care facilities, and family medicine clinics. Like her husband, Joyce was a hospitalist physician assistant at Geisinger Medical Center and has practiced in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. She has also been a PA at the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo.
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