{"id":42383,"date":"2019-06-03T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=42383"},"modified":"2019-06-03T14:55:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:55:54","slug":"royals-business-spotlight-ct-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/royals-business-spotlight-ct-assist\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Business Spotlight: CT Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>The<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/royal-connections\/\"> <b><i>Royal Connections<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> Business Spotlight is a monthly feature about businesses owned by EMU alumni featured in the university&#8217;s\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/royal-connections\/\"><b><i>interactive business directory<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Jair Drooger \u201897<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Scott Yoder \u201896<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are co-founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ct-assist.com\/\">CT Assist<\/a>, a healthcare staffing company that contracts with hospitals to fill personnel shortages. The company began in Philippi, West Virginia, and recently opened a second office in Harrisonburg, Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">&#8221;The world needs business leaders to rise from the STEM fields of study.&#8221; \u2014Scott Yoder &#8217;96<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among their 50 employees are several EMU alumni, including<\/span> <b>Daryl Bert \u201897<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, chief financial officer; <\/span><b>Jason Good \u201805<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, director of CT Assist locum tenens; <\/span><b>Minnette Burkholder Hostetler \u201895<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, director of human resources and operations; <\/span><b>Jen Schlabach Litwiller \u201895<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, director of business development; <\/span><b>Bonnie Moore \u201814<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, recruiter and marketing manager; and <\/span><b>Delight Tigoe<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong> \u201818<\/strong>, accounting and credentialing specialist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company was founded in 2013 as a staffing company for cardiac surgery physician assistants and nurse practitioners. A year after procuring its first contract, CT Assist expanded into other states. In 2018, the company earned certification by The Joint Commission, a private independent accreditor, and was ranked in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/inc5000\/list\/2018\/industry\/health?cid=profile500016-honorlist-industry\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">top 500 of Inc. 5000\u2019s fastest-growing private companies in America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company has since expanded service offerings to include cardiac surgeons, nurses and perfusionists, which are skilled professionals <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who operate cardiopulmonary bypass machines<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>How the business started<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Scott Yoder: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly 20 years ago, as a new graduate physician assistant (PA) working for a hospital, I saw many experienced PAs quit the surgical subspecialty of cardiac surgery because they were becoming &#8220;burned out.&#8221; It seemed almost tragic to me, knowing how much effort these persons have poured into developing skills and achieving knowledge, never to use them again. Most of the &#8220;burnout&#8221; could be blamed on scheduling issues, such as working long hours, working weekends, being on-call too frequently, getting called into emergencies at night, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believed that if the hospitals or another company would provide their employees with a better lifestyle, they would not leave the specialty. This notion was the basis for my company which came to fruition many years down the road when a representative from a former employer, a hospital,\u00a0 repeatedly called me every three months asking if I would return to support their program. After about a year of graciously declining their offers, I formed a business to hire other providers along with myself to cover the hospital&#8217;s needs. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>EMU\u2019s impact<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EMU gave me a solid base of scientific knowledge to do anything I wanted. Upon admission into PA school, I realized I was as well prepared as anyone in our class. I wasn&#8217;t formally trained in business, but the world needs business leaders to rise from the STEM fields of study. \u00a0EMU helped develop a work ethic and world view that definitely was beneficial to our business.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Helping employees learn, grow and lead<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We try to make CT Assist the best place for our employees to learn and grow. We want our company to be a setting where leaders are can develop, whether continuing to work for us or taking their achievements to another organization. \u00a0We value our relationships and we trust and support each other. We believe these values, empower our employees to make wise decisions which strengthens the company. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One way we&#8217;re able to share our values is through the support of important experiential learning opportunities for EMU students who plan to be healthcare professionals. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/pphs\/ct-assist\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CT Assist Health Experiential Learning Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> awards funds to pre-professional health science students to support clinical experiences that help prepare students for professional health programs and to be better healthcare providers. [<em>Read about <\/em><\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/seven-weeks-in-peru-ct-assist-awards-fund-student-explorations-of-health-care-delivery\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">summer 2018<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/summer-kauffman-miller-research-awards-and-ct-assist-experiential-grant-recipients-announced\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">summer 2019 <\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>student experiences provided by CT Assist scholarships.<\/em>]<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Best business insights<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s OK for people to make mistakes but we need to learn from them. If mistakes are punished, then people won&#8217;t try new things.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a young company, we have used a lean start-up mentality, where we build something, measure it, and learn before repeating the process with the next iteration. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Connections Business Spotlight is a monthly feature about businesses owned by EMU alumni featured in the university&#8217;s\u00a0interactive business directory. 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