Camp Administrators

Dr. Sam J.W. Romeo MD, MBA ~ President/CEO

Sam Romeo, MD. MBA is a nationally recognized health care administrator and physician with over 40 years of experience.  .  He received his B.S. degree from St Mary’s College, California, M.D. degree from St Louis University School of Medicine, and M.B.A. from National University.  With the integrity he exudes and the warmth in his handshake, even his barber doesn’t know that he has served as the President/CEO of medical groups as large as 3,000 physicians strong, has held senior faculty and deanship positions at the USC School Of Medicine, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and St. Louis University School of Medicine, and has been the CEO and Medical Director of Health Maintenance Organizations in California, Florida, and New York.  He continues to be tirelessly committed to improving health care on a national level and participates in such organizations as the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Care (AAAHC) which insures quality standards are met by medical facilities.  He has served on the AAAHC Board of Directors, AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement (IQI) Board of Trustees, and has been a methodologist in the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement which is developing evidence-based performance measurement sets for physicians to enhance the quality of patient care.  Dr Romeo is a member of the Performance Measures Advisory Group to the CPT Editorial Panel which creates Category II codes for reporting Performance Measures on CMS 1500 forms.  These codes significantly reduce Quality Improvement reporting costs by facilitating reporting through Electronic Medical Record systems.   Dr Romeo has lectured, been published, and consulted around the country on medical ethics, managed care, family practice, outcomes measurement that reflect the quality in health care, quality improvement, and the role of academic health care centers in the managed care environment.

 

Although he has achieved immeasurable success and recognition as a physician, university professor, academic official, and business executive, when asked, “What are you most proud of?”  He responds without hesitation, “My family.”  A man born and raised on a desolate ranch in Northeast Nevada and the first person in his family to go to college, he beams when sharing that 5 of his 6 children are practicing physicians and the 6th child has her Master’s Degree in Social Work (a Licensed Clinical Social Worker).  True to form, he humbly credits his wife Patty of 47 years for this “true accomplishment.”   Optimistic, reflective and a leader by example, it’s not a wonder why he is known by most as “Papa”…