Tucker
By Diane Duke Williams
June 15, 2001
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Rose A. Walker and Kimberly Tucker will team up to direct the Center for Advanced Medicine, the new ambulatory care center scheduled to open in November. Walker will represent the School of Medicine, and Tucker will represent Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
In her new medical school position, Walker will coordinate clinical operations and policies with the 14 clinical centers housed in the Center for Advanced Medicine. She will work with Tucker on issues that cross institutional and departmental management lines, such as service issues affecting all patients. As a liaison, she will assist patients or faculty members with concerns that arise among departments or between the medical school and the hospital.
Walker, who played a critical role in developing the Center for Advanced Medicine, also is director of ambulatory operations of the Faculty Practice Plan. She formerly worked as a nurse clinician and a nursing administrator for inpatient and ambulatory services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and as a physician practice administrator for the medical school.
Walker earned a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1984 and a master's degree in nursing administration in 1989, both from Saint Louis University.
Tucker will coordinate the center's operational responsibilities related to Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She will establish standards of practice and care and develop policies and procedures in collaboration with Walker.
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A clinical manager, Tucker has been in management at Barnes-Jewish Hospital since 1987. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and she is completing a master's degree in nursing from The Jewish Hospital College of Nursing and Allied Health.
Additionally, Tucker has served in leadership roles for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and is a member of the American College of Health Care Executives.
The 14-story Center for Advanced Medicine, at the corner of Forest Park and Euclid avenues, will allow patients to receive world-class outpatient care, diagnosis and treatment in a single location. The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center also will be housed there.
The Center for Advanced Medicine will be organized into multidisciplinary clinical centers, which group together specialties that tend to see the same types of patients. For example, the lung center will include specialists in pulmonary medicine, allergy and immunology, thoracic surgery and lung transplantation. Associated ancillary services, such as chest X-ray and pulmonary function testing, will be located in the physician practice area.
