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Physician Profile for Dr. Samantha L. Collier, MD

Address:
500 Golden Ridge Road
Golden, CO 80401
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Personal Facts

Personal Facts:
Accepting New Patients: No
Female
Years Since Graduation: 14
Current Title: Executive Vice President/Chief Medical Officer, HealthGrades, Inc.
 
Awards and Honors:
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
2004-2005, America's Top Physicians, Consumers' Research Council of America
 

HealthGrades Recognized Doctors are board certified in the specialty they practice; have never had their license restricted or revoked; are free of state or federal disciplinary actions; and are free of any malpractice claims.

Professional Appointments:
University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Department of Internal Medicine, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Publications:
First Time Preplanned and Patient Choice Cesarean Section Rates in the United States
HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study
Patient Safety in American Hospitals
2005, The Consumer Has the Right to Know, Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare
 

Patient / Medical Philosophy

Her current role as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Health Grades, Inc. has allowed her the opportunity to discuss the important impact of consumerism and healthcare ratings, public profiling, and patient safety to multitudes of national conferences, including the Harvard Quality Colloquium, CMS National Customer Service conference, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the National Association for Healthcare Quality. She has also assisted over 100 hospital organizations throughout the country with the development of quality improvement initiatives that have improved their public profiling positions and competitive positioning and quality of care while continuing to practice part-time as a hospitalist in Denver. Prior to joining HealthGrades, Dr. Collier served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa in the Department of Internal Medicine. While there, she innovated and developed a “Business in Medicine” curriculum for the residency training program and led pharmacy and therapeutics, peer review, and multiple quality improvement committees She has developed several new outcomes measurements for HealthGrades to be used by payers, business groups, insurers and consumers that provides more useful information to make informed choices about where to seek healthcare. Dr. Collier has co-authored several studies at HealthGrades, including First time Preplanned and “Patient Choice” Cesarean Section Rates in the United States, HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, and Patient Safety in American Hospitals) that have received significant public attention- including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CNN, Time, Modern Healthcare and many others. Dr. Collier’s background also includes a private practice in geriatric medicine and medical director experience with outpatient, long-term care and hospice facilities. Her experience as a medical director in the continuum of clinical facilities has allowed her to gain valuable experience in understanding the unique difficulties in caring for the elderly and patients at the end of life

Experience / Training

Verified Specialty
Specialty:
Internal Medicine
(HealthGrades has verified that Dr. Samantha L. Collier, MD is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine)
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Medical School:
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, NJ 1995
 
Internship:
University Of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO
 
Residency:
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO
 

Disciplinary Actions

HealthGrades has examined disciplinary actions within the last five years from the Office of Inspector General and 50 state medical boards.
HealthGrades could not detect any disciplinary actions for Dr. Samantha L. Collier, MD as of 07/10/2009.
Note: HealthGrades reports on state and federal disciplinary actions (if any) from the previous five years.

Malpractice History

HealthGrades did not find any closed malpractice claims for Dr. Samantha L. Collier, MD in the states of California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, or West Virginia.    Learn More
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