Bios

Steven Hahn, M.D.

Kissito Healthcare has partnered with Steven Hahn, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Instructor in Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York to develop Kissito’s Collaborative Patient Care Pathway™. This innovative program is distinct from those of other skilled nursing facilities, designed to prepare patients and their families to successfully self-manage the patient’s medical conditions at home after leaving the post acute rehabilitation setting.

Dr. Hahn has been an invaluable component in developing the Collaborative Patient Care Pathway™ and is well-prepared by his skill set and background. The first spark of interest in medicine came in high school in New York when Dr. Hahn was inspired by a biology teacher to pursue science in college. While in college, he discovered the teachings of Carl Jung which opened up the fascinating world of psychology and human behavior. He became torn on whether to choose psychiatry or medicine and to this day, he focuses on both, refusing to choose one over the other.

The Collaborative Patient Care Pathway™ is the perfect arena for applying this dual focus. Dr. Hahn says, “I share Kissito’s passion for understanding that our patients have to live on a daily basis with their chronic medical conditions, and the time we spend with them in the office, hospital or post acute rehabilitation setting will be all for nothing if they go home and cannot successfully self-manage the many challenges that come with chronic disease.” Dr. Hahn brings his expertise in helping patients and their families manage their medical problems and his expertise in education and program development to his partnership with Kissito Healthcare in fostering the Collaborative Patient Care Pathway™.

Dr. Hahn received his bachelor’s degree from Yale College in psychology and philosophy and went on to Yale School of Medicine for his medical degree. He completed his residency in primary care internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and a fellowship in behavioral sciences for primary care medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

His clinical, teaching and research activities for the past thirty years have focused on helping doctors, nurses and physicians help their patients live with and care for their chronic medical problems as well as helping patients and their families successfully manage those problems. He has published research papers in prominent medical journals, authored chapters of medical textbooks and lectured all over the United States, Canada and Europe on these themes in medicine. He has been the Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Track of the Residency Program since 1999 and has trained a generation of medical residents in that three-year program.  In his experience as Co-director of the Gero-Psychology Consultation Clinic, Dr. Hahn has addressed behavioral and psychological issues in older adults with combined medical and psychological problems from within the services of the Hospital’s adult medicine ambulatory care service.

In addition to his medical credits, as substantial as they might be, the doctor has a life outside of medicine. Dr. Hahn has four children, two still at home and two out in the world. He loves gardening, country western and ballroom dancing, outdoor sports and has studied tai chi for the past forty years – with the same teacher. At the end of the day, it is valuable to him to stay grounded, centered and relaxed.

Angela Mattocks, RN, MHA, LNHA

Though Angela Mattocks admired the nurses who cared for her grandparents, she did not consider pursuing the nursing field at first. She started as a business major at Hampton University, but a pull to do something meaningful and purposeful with her life led her to graduate as a nursing major.  This decision would later lead her to play an integral role in the development the Collaborative Patient Care Pathway™ at Kissito Healthcare.

Nursing school at Georgetown Medical Center in Washington D.C. was the next step during which time Mattocks held an eight-year position as a floor nurse in a medical neurology unit. Patients from all over the world would come to Georgetown and for that reason, Mattocks was able to receive a well-rounded experience in neurology. However, the scheduling eventually did not align with her lifestyle which led her to consider other possibilities in the nursing field. She decided to work part time at a research clinic and part time as a floor nurse at a nursing home and discovered she loved her work at the nursing home. Eventually, she became a nursing manager of a facility close to home.

At a different nursing home, Mattocks later had the opportunity to completely revolutionize an Alzheimer’s unit. She created and implemented a brand new program and became the Director of Nursing. Later she went back to school to receive her master’s in health care administration and became the Nursing Home Administrator. At some point during this process, Tom Clarke, CEO and President of Kissito Healthcare, discovered Mattocks and “snatched her away”, as she endearingly referred to the switch.

Mattocks was hired as the Chief Nursing Officer in which position she streamlined operations of all Kissito facilities by creating and implementing new, universal policies and by developing a method by which to evaluate facility performance, later known as the Clinical Scorecard.               She set the bar and raised it, set the bar and raised it  – little by little bringing Kissito facilities to operate at the highest levels and to produce the highest quality of care.

In her experience with a staffing agency, Mattocks was able to see many hospitals and identify strengths and weaknesses in them. She was most impressed with one that had successfully implemented a clinical pathway; a day-by-day rehabilitation plan for patients after surgery. The concept for this pathway became the rudimentary concept for the Collaborative Patient Care Pathway™ that Kissito would later develop and implement. Since a Kissito facility could admit a patient that had already started the rehabilitation process, Mattocks knew that a program designed phase-by-phase rather than day-by-day would be most practical. Later, Dr. Steven Hahn took the Pathway to a new level, making it an evidence-based model based on patient self-management.

In the future, Mattocks hopes to obtain a Ph.D. in public health and continue to impact people’s lives in a positive way. Even outside of the workplace she does this in her church as the leader of the church’s health ministry. She feels what she does is her calling. To do what is right and to change people’s quality of life for the better is God’s work.