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Here at the Oklahoma City VAMC, we have a long history of providing excellent patient care. This is demonstrated through recent achievements in successful program accreditations in Joint Commission, College of American Pathologist, and Commission on Accreditation of Rehab Facilities. As we continue on our journey towards excellence, I am confident that the Oklahoma City VAMC will continue to provide the caliber of care that we can all take pride in.
While change is an inevitable part of our lives, here at the Medical Center our mission and our course will remain constant, true and steady. Some of my goals as the Medical Center Director are to meet the exceptional level on our performance measures, provide top ranked customer service, provide safe, high quality patient care in a fiscally responsible manner, be an employer of choice workplace, full implementation of Advanced Clinic Access and enhance mutually beneficial community affiliations. Through achievement of these goals, the staff of the Oklahoma City VAMC can continue providing the highest level of care of any hospital inside or outside the VA healthcare system.
The Oklahoma City VAMC will continue to provide the highest quality medical care to the men and women who have earned it in service to our nation. Every day, the members of our armed forces are engaged in the dangerous work of preserving our freedom and ensuring our safety around the world. When they, too, become veterans, they should expect, and will receive, the same exemplary level of medical care as those who have come before them. I am confident that our medical center will embrace and meet future challenges in a way that will continue to reflect on the exceptional care our staff provides for America's heroes.
Again, welcome to Oklahoma City VAMC!
OKLAHOMA CITY VA MEDICAL CENTER LEADERSHIP
Interim Medical Center Director, Oklahoma City VAMC
Adam C. Walmus, M.H.A, M.A. F.A.C.H.E.
Adam C. Walmus, M.H.A., M.A., F.A.C.H.E., was recently appointed interim medical center director of the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center. Walmus, who has been with the Department of Veterans Affairs since 1981, currently serves as the medical center director of the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
During this temporary assignment, Walmus will serve as the chief executive officer at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center charged with management of more than 1,900 employees and an annual budget of approximately $400 million. In addition to caring for more than 53,000 Veterans in the western portion of Oklahoma and north central Texas, the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center operates nine community based outpatient clinics and serves as a regional referral center for many services including radiation therapy.
Prior to his appointment as director of the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Walmus served as director of the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His more than 30 years of federal service includes VA positions in Houston, Dublin, Georgia, and New Orleans as well as a Department of Health & Human Services position in the Washington, D.C. area.
Walmus obtained a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He holds two master’s degrees, one in Health Care Administration from Tulane University and one in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan.
A Fellow and board member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), Walmus serves on the VA ACHE Regent's Advisory Council and received the ACHE Senior-Level Health Care Executive Regent's Award for significant contributions of the college and advancement of health care management excellence in March 2011. He was a preceptor and clinical adjunct faculty member of the Health Care Administration Department at Oklahoma University and is currently a member of the graduate advisory board at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Texas A&M University, Master in Healthcare Administration Program.
Walmus has been recognized by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for his achievements in workplace diversity with the VA Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2010 and for his outstanding efforts in promoting alternative dispute resolution with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Excellence and Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Award in 2011. In 2011, he was selected to serve as the vice-chairman for the Houston Federal Executive Board, awarded the VA Graduate Healthcare Administration Training Program Preceptor of the Year Award, recognized as a Patriotic Employer by the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, and received the Award of Merit from the Houston Bar Association. The same year, Walmus received an honorary society membership to the West Point Society of Greater Houston and was given the title of “Honorary Colonel” with the U.S. Army’s 75th Mission Command Training Division.
Associate Director, Oklahoma City VAMC
Anne Kreutzer, MS, FACHE
Anne B. Kreutzer was appointed Associate Director of the Oklahoma City VAMC in November 2007. Mrs. Kreutzer has been an employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs since 1989. Most recently she served as the Associate Director for Contact Management at the Health Revenue Center (HRC) in Topeka, Kansas. While there Mrs. Kreutzer created and implemented the First Party Call Center, which now serves veterans in all 21 VISNs. While at the HRC, Mrs. Kreutzer received the VA Secretary’s Hero Award for her work in providing call center support for veterans and employees impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
Mrs. Kreutzer has served on several national and VISN committees and is a member of the VA Executive Career Field Class of 2007. She holds a Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Kansas State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Missouri. Mrs. Kreutzer has also earned the distinction of Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Chief of Staff, Oklahoma City VAMC
Mark Huycke, MD
Dr. Mark Huycke was appointed the Chief of Staff of the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center on August 16, 2009. , Dr. Huycke did his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS. He interned and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. From there, he completed his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. Dr. Huycke is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. He has been a VA physician since 1987, accumulating 22 years of federal service in which he served as the Chief of Medicine Service at the OKC VAMC for eight years.
Currently Dr. Huycke holds the rank of Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He is an outstanding researcher with 14 previously funded grants totaling over $5,500,000.00. Dr. Huycke has been awarded a number of recognitions for his excellence in service to include the Hammarsten Physician of Excellence Award, Fellowship in the Infectious Diseases Society of American, Fellowship in the American College of Physicians, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Certificate of Recognition, Robert W. Kent Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Undergraduate Research, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lambda Upsilon and the Owen W. Maloney Scholarship for Outstanding Student in Inorganic Chemistry.
Associate Director for Patient Care Services
Donna DeLise, RN, MS
Donna DeLise, RN, MS, was appointed Associate Director for Patient Care Services (ADPCS) at the Oklahoma City VAMC in September 2010. As ADPCS, Ms. DeLise is responsible for the clinical and administrative operations of inpatient nursing and for the nursing standards of care and practice in clinical units throughout the medical center.
Prior to her appointment as ADPCS, Ms. DeLise served as the Director, Office of Performance and Quality at the Oklahoma City VAMC from 2003-2010. She also previously worked as the Quality Improvement Specialist at the Oklahoma City VAMC for ten years. Ms. DeLise began her RN career at the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City as a staff nurse in the Medical Intensive Care Unit in 1990.
Ms. DeLise received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing and her Master's in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Oklahoma Nurses Association, American Nurses Association and many other professional organizations and she has received numerous professional awards and honors throughout her career.
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