SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass. – July 16, 2015 – Christian G. Heinis, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, has joined Harrington HealthCare System’s Emergency Care Department.
Harrington HealthCare System services 21 communities across South Central Massachusetts and Northeastern Connecticut.
Dr. Heinis, who lives in Harvard, Mass. and grew up in Hanover, Mass, will provide care to patients of all ages at Harrington’s two Emergency Care Centers in Southbridge and Webster (the Remillard Family Emergency Department). Harrington employs more than 20 emergency care physicians and mid-level practitioners.
Dr. Heinis has 15 years of experience. He received his medical degree from Chicago Medical School’s Finch University of Health Sciences. He completed his residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y.
“Dr. Chris Heinis is very experienced, comfortable working both in large, high-volume, high-acuity departments and in community and rural departments when he is the only physician in the hospital,” says Dr. James Sullivan, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Harrington. “He is procedurally very skilled. He will be a full-time, night physician for the ER.”
For the past two years, Dr. Heinis has served as a physician in the Emergency Department at Heywood Hospital in Gardener, Mass. Previous to his time at Heywood, Heinis spent nine years working at the UMass Memorial Medical Center Emergency Department, where he was also an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine.
In addition to accepting the new position as a provider with Harrington, he will continue to work as the Medical Director and Hair Transplant Surgeon for Distefano Medical Group.
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