Susan Blume, M.S.N., R.N., CEN, Emergency Department Clinical Educator, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, Texas

Susan Blume, MSN, RN, CEN has 46 years of emergency nursing experience in staff, supervision, and management positions. She is employed at Texas Health Resources as an Emergency Department Clinical Educator in Clinical Learning. Susan has a Master of Nursing in Nursing Education from the University of Texas at Arlington. 

She has volunteered for Unbound North Texas, an anti-human trafficking organization, teaching health care professionals how to identify and respond to human trafficking since 2017. Susan is a graduate of the TCU Fellowship in Evidenced Based Practice. Her project was on Identifying Human Trafficking Victims in the Emergency Department and her poster won the Silver Award.

She was nominated for the 2019 Rose Award for emergency nursing excellence at Texas Health. She received the 2019 Northeast Tarrant Chamber of Commerce Hometown Hero Award.  She has been recognized as one of DFW's Great 100 Nurses. Susan presented at the National Emergency Nursing Association Conference on Human Trafficking. She was featured in a CBS11 news report about human trafficking.

Kenneth Braxton, Jr., J.D., Assistant General Counsel, Texas Health Resources, Arlington, Texas

Ken Braxton has been a health care attorney for the past 35 years.  He was in house litigation counsel and adjunct professor for the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, as well as faculty at the Texas Tech Law School where he taught Medical Negligence and Health Law. 

He has tried over 100 medical negligence cases as first chair and defended over 1,000 cases for health care providers before the Texas licensure boards.  For the past 11 years, he has been an Assistant General Counsel for Texas Health Resources, with primary responsibility for representation of Texas Health Physicians Group, a physician organization with over 1,000 primary care and specialty providers.

Lynn Myers, M.D., CPC, CHC, Sr. Vice President; Chief Medical and Quality Officer, Texas Health Physicians Group, Arlington, Texas

Dr. Lynn Myers is a Family Physician. Dr. Myers was in private practice for twenty years before moving into an administrative role for Texas Health Physicians Group. She takes great pride in building and leading diverse interdepartmental teams to accomplish strategic initiatives in well being, professionalism, quality, safety and compliance.

Primary in her priorities is performance improvement in ambulatory quality in both the ACO realm, CMS reporting and helping individual providers meet quality and outcomes goals for their patients. She is also a driver of well being within the physician group, utilizing collegiality forums, interactive online tools and in-person strategies to create an intentionally good place to work within the physician group.

Dr. Myers also leads the organization’s clinical care goals, including strategies for addressing disparities in health care, access to care, and emerging diseases.

Dr. Myers has been instrumental in Texas Health’s journey to High Reliability.  She has coordinated the leadership education on high reliability as well as the education of frontline staff in the ambulatory setting and continues to reinforce the use of high reliability leadership principles and use of error prevention tools. 

Dr. Myers is a committed to documentation improvement and is certified in Healthcare Compliance. She works to help physicians improve their documentation to confidently support the levels of service and diagnoses reported for reimbursement, and to allow electronic capture of clinical data for quality monitoring.

Lynn Myers, MD is currently, Sr. Vice President, Chief Medical and Quality Officer at Texas Health Physicians Group.

Todd Richwine, D.O., M.S., FAAFP, Chief Medical Informatics Officer; Family Practice Physician; Associate Professor; Texas Health Physicians Group, TCU/UNTHSC School of Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas

Since 2018, Dr. Richwine has led and assisted in planning, coordinating and overseeing the electronic health record (EHR) and other information technology solutions which providers and clinicians use within THPG.

As a member of Physician Comp Committee, he was also an integral part of the development and deployment of all improvements and modifications to the primary care provider reimbursement structure. In an effort to meet the needs of the community, the providers and prepare for future changes in health care, this committee recently launched the latest version of the Physician/APP salary index including traditional guaranteed salary, wRVU-based salary and an innovative panel model.

Dr. Richwine began his career as a physician at THPG in 2011. Along with providing patient care, he also worked as the physician champion for THPG. As the physician champion, he was the primary Epic physician builder who oversaw the Ambulatory PAC committee and helped leadership in the Epic Refuel. In addition, Dr. Richwine worked to improve the CareConnect One EHR experience for providers and assisted with their training.

He earned his undergraduate degree at Baylor University and earned a masters in integrative physiology at the UT- Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. In 2000, he received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of North Texas Health Science Center - Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth and completed his post graduate residency at the St. Louis University-Forest Park Hospital.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, attending his children’s’ sporting events and playing golf.