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Clinical Match Me was presented with the Better Business Bureau 2016 Torch Award for Ethics this past May in Jacksoville. The service management company, located in Rincon, matches nurse practitioners with clincians

around the country.Thursday, July 14, 2016

Lighting The WayRincon Management Service Company Earns BBB Torch Award for EthicsBy Stephen Prudhomme

Clinical Match Me (CMM) sounds like a dating service for members of the medical profession, and there is a component of bringing people together. The similarities end there, however, as the goal is to connect nurse practitioners with facilities where they can complete their clinical education rather than finding that special romantic someone.

Helping to ensure it’s a long and happy clinical marriage is a Rincon business that has earned recognition for its ethical practices.

CMM, which is operating in Rincon for the fifth year, has been named the winner for the Better

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Business Bureau (BBB) 2016 Torch Award for Ethics. Company founder and CEO Dino Soriano attended the awards ceremony in Jacksonville, Fla., in May. "Being a finalist for this award is a strong validation of the hard work and effort put into CMM and helping nurse practitioner students for over four years,” he says. "CMM is honored to be recognized as a leading organization committed to ethical business practices.”

Soriano, who is also a practicing clinician with a FNP (family nurse practitioner), notes that CMM leadership continually manages performance by establishing goals and implementing its mission to every employee on the team and is dedicated to educating the next generation of caring, competent, and compassionate health care providers. Its unique business model, he adds, is what sets CMM apart. "CMM is a business that only gets paid after delivering acceptable service to its clients,” he says.

Nurse practitioner students, unlike their nursing counterparts, don’t have as many options when it comes to places to go to complete their clinical education. Nicole Morgan, consiglieri and senior certified professional (SCP) with CMM, says the nurse practitioner students are under a high level of stress when they contact them. Noting they have to be creative in finding placement for an average of 30 students who contact them every week through networking, conferences and referrals, she says they’re always looking for clinical positions around the country and are able to offer compensation in the form of honorariums to the clinicians, who typically are nurse practitioners but also doctors as well. The students pay CMM a service fee after they’ve been placed.

Nurse practitioners are valuable members of the medical profession. Morgan says they’re independent, can open a practice and treat patients and can prescribe medications. CMM helps these individuals achieve the final component in their training so they can use their specialized skills to help others.

CMM’s mission is to support the clinical education of the next generation of caring, competent, compassionate providers. It supports clinical education to help diminish the number of students who discontinue their education and to advance the profession by helping the public perceive nurse practitioners as a viable option at a time when there’s a growing demand for health care services. "We’re connecting people,” Morgan says. "We’re a bridge.”

The Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics is the BBB’s highest honor conferred on a business. Being a recipient indicates that the business not only believes in the high standards promoted by the BBB, but also consistently acts on them and continuously integrates them into daily business practices.

Judging criteria includes: leadership commitment to ethical practices, communication of ethical practices, leadership practices to unify the organization, organizational commitment to performance management practices, organizational commitment to ethical human resource practices, and organizational commitment to the community.