Baptist Health recently named Wendell Pahls, MD, as the healthcare system’s medical director of emergency and transfer services.
In this role, Pahls will focus on improving quality and efficiency in Baptist Health’s emergency medicine services systemwide as well as improving hospital transfer processes to better care for the people of Arkansas.
Pahls will continue serving as medical director of the emergency department at Baptist Health-Little Rock and as a physician in the ED. He will also remain medical director for occupational and employee health.
One of the first residency trained emergency physicians in the state, Pahls has been in practice in emergency medicine for 36 years.