It's Nice to Meet You!

My name is Jason Krupp. I am an internal medicine physician and the new Chief Medical Officer of Anna Jaques Hospital.

I asked to do this “blog” in order to try to communicate on a regular, if informal, basis, how I am working with everyone here at Anna Jaques to improve the hospital daily.

In this age of transparency, hospitals provide a great deal of information on things they are doing well and things that need improvement. However, there is so much that goes on behind the scenes every minute in a hospital, I thought this snapshot would be of interest.

I get asked an awful lot what a “Chief Medical Officer” does. I believe my job is to utilize my experience as a physician to assist Administration in ensuring that our hospital provides the safest and highest quality environment and processes that allows physicians, nurses and other practitioners to provide their best care to all of our patients and their families.

Maybe this is not an elegant description, but I think it is inclusive. I’m not sure if my kids comprehend it either. As an example of the breadth of my role, today I have met with a physician about numbers of shifts, I am going now to Chair our Compliance Committee, and I have been working on a program that will allow us to provide even more coordinated care with our community physicians.

I look forward to blogging with you, and appreciate your feedback.