History:

Our Background

Ascent
is a division of MDS Consulting Group. Inc. owned and operated by Michael Spencer, and was formed to help healthcare facilities meet vital patient care goals with the highest caliber supplemental staff by:

  • Controlling the Process
  • Building Synergistic Relationships
  • Assuring Value
  • Nurturing Staff Retention

  • Ascent's
    founder has 25 years experience as a successful agency owner recognized for providing quality supplemental staff to acute care hospitals. This time period spans the outer edges of the nurse recruiting cycle from severe shortage to relative abundance and back. Mr. Spencer is keenly aware of the adverse consequences of agency excesses and facilities reactionary responses during these extremes.

    The service package offered by Ascent, from individual project assistance to a feature-rich web-based software solution, enables hospitals to have a seasoned agency professional on their side of the table.

    Career Summary - Michael D. Spencer:

      Ascent:   Founder/Owner/President
      STI Nursing Services:   Founder (1999), Owner,
      CEO/President - Temporary nursing and
       travel agency
      STAT Nursing Services:   Founder (1979), Co-Owner,
      CEO/President - Regionally dominate   Temporary nursing agency
      Mt. Zion Medical Center:   Area Co-Coordinator, Managed 5
       in-patient acute Nursing units
      United States Air Force:   Medical Service Corps - Officer, Hospital   Administration
      University of Oregon:   Master of Business Administration
      University of Maryland:   Bachelor of Science


    Disclosure of Relevant Industry Relationships:

     Liz Lynch:  Prior:  Co Founder - STAT Nursing Services.
     Current:  Owner - Across America Staffing
     KathleenCleary:  Prior:  Employee then Co-owner - STAT
     Nursing Services
     Current:  Owner - STAT Nursing Services
     Art Flaster:  Prior:  Owner - HRN Services Inc. which
     acquired STI Nursing Services in August of  2003.
     Current:  Owner - HRN Services Inc.
     
    Web-based VMS Solution
    delivers best practice
    efficiency to the mission
    critical supplemental
    staffing effort and
    drives effectiveness,
    quality and cost savings.
     
     
     
     
     
     
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