Lisa Tager named Director of Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine

Lisa Tager

FALL RIVER, Mass. — Southcoast Hospitals Group has named Lisa Tager as Director of the Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine Center at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River.

Tager joins Southcoast from Rutland Regional Medical Center in Rutland, Vt., where she served as Director of Social Work and Trauma Support.

She has also held the position of Director of Outpatient Services & Contracting at Westwood Pembroke Health Systems in Westwood, Mass., and Contracts Manager at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts in Boston.

She holds a Juris Doctor degree from the New England School of Law in Boston. She has a Master of Social Work from New York University in New York and received her Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

Tager was a member of the Board of Directors for PACE Vermont, a nonprofit health care provider for seniors and the first rural PACE site in the country.

She lives in Falmouth, Mass., with her husband, David, three children and two dogs.

The Southcoast Wound Care Center

The Southcoast Wound Care Center is scheduled to open in February 2010 at Charlton Memorial Hospital. Southcoast has partnered with Diversified Clinical Services, the pioneer and leader in wound management services, to integrate the new center into Southcoast Hospitals' existing clinical programs and primary care services. Diversified's experience with approximately 300 hospital-based wound care centers throughout the United States, will bring innovative treatment plans for wound care to the area. The Southcoast Wound Care Center will offer the latest in hospital-based outpatient wound care, including circulatory system diagnostics and treatment, nutrition, wound pain management, diabetes wound care and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, also known as HBOT.