MIDDLETOWN, NY — Crystal Run Healthcare’s Chief Quality Officer and Medical Director Scott Hines, MD has been named a health care leader joining the American Medical Group Association’s (AMGA) 2018 board of directors. Each member serves a three-year term and will actively provide leadership and direction to ensure the success of its member groups and its own operations.

Hines is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism and joined Crystal Run in 2006.  He earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University in Winston‐Salem, NC and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Dartmouth‐Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. Dr. Hines completed his endocrinology fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD.

As chief quality officer and medical director of Crystal Run’s Medical Specialties Division, Dr. Hines helps to cultivate and implement the clinical programs necessary to deliver value-based care, which include the creation of best-practice guidelines, a variation reduction program, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.

For more information visit www.crys talrunhealthcare.com or call 845/703-6999.