CONTACT SUMMARY
A Board Certified Family Doctor with thirty-five plus years of clinical
experience, specializing in patient care, urgent care, and family medicine by building positive relationships with patient through compassionate and empathetic care.
WORK EXPERIENCE
URGENT CARE PHYSICAN
Nextcare Urgent Care August 2022 – March 2023
URGENT CARE PHYSICAN
MedExpress Urgent Care October 2021 – August 2022 FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
Ascension/St. John April 2017 – April 2021
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
FILL IN AT URGENT CARE
Premier Family Clinic August 2015 – April 2017
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
IHCRC January 2015 – July 2015
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
Sam Hider Medical Center July 2011 – July 2015
Cherokee Nation Health Services Instituted EMR in this clinic and have been instrumental in the transition to another EMR system. LOCUMS CONCORDE PHYSICAN
Urgent Care November 2013 – December 2015
HOSPICE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Heaven and Earth Hospice June 2010 – December 2012 NURSING HOME MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Higher Call Nursing Center January 2008 – July 2011 918-***-****
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Broken Arrow, OK
CERTIFICATIONS
AOBFP BOARD CERTIFIED
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
500 hours of continuing
education and practice to achieve
Board Certification
July 1989 – May 1995
EDUCATION
GENERAL ROTATING
INTERNSHIP
Enid Regional Hospital Enid, OK
July 1987 – July 1989
DOCTOR OF OSTEOPATHY
OSUCOM Tulsa, OK
August 1983 – June 1987
MAJORED IN CHEMISTRY AND
MATH, MINOR IN
COMPUTERS
No Degree Achieved
Northeast Missouri State
Kirksville, MO
August 1981 – June 1983
MAJORED IN CHEMISTRY
No Degree Achieved
Northwestern Oklahoma State
Alva, OK
August 1981 – August 1983
BOARD CERTIFIED,
DOCTOR OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
WESTENHAVER, DO
RITA
WORK EXPERIENCE (cont.)
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Residential Care May 2010 – March 2011
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
Craig General Hospital May 2010 – March 2011
Resumed responsibilities for two physicians that left the practice. Help institute EMR to satisfy National Practice Standards. EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSCIAN
Craig General Hospital April 2008 – May 2010
EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSCIAN
FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
Integris Baptist Regional Hospital October 2007 – April 2008 Family practice physician in start-up of new practice. Emergency room physician on part time basis. Normal responsibilities of family physician. Helped institute first EMR of this site for physicians. EMERGENCY ROOM PHYSCIAN
Memorial Hospital of Texas County February 2005 – October 2007 Worked part time in emergency room while continuing to manage my own successful practice full time.
OWNER, FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSICAN
Self-Employed August 1989 – October 2007
Instituted EMR in my private practice. Opened and managed a rural health clinic in nearby town for four years. Employed as physician in charge of medication management with State Department of Mental Health.
LOCUMS TENENS FAMILY PRACTICE PHYSCIAN
Self-Employed July 1988 – July 1989
Worked part time in emergency rooms and private physician practices all over Oklahoma on a fill-in basis.
OTHER
EXPERIENCE
LPN Degree 1974
Worked as a full time Nurse until
starting College full time in
1981.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
WESTENHAVER
RITA, DO
BOARD CERTIFIED,
DOCTOR OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE