Hess Hired at Hot Springs; Elser Moves to WLR PCC (CHI St. Vincent Movers & Shakers)

Clockwise from top left: Dr. Travis Hess of CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs; Nisa Trenthem, Jenny Bowe and Tabitha Childers of CHI St. Vincent Infirmary; and in center, Dr. Joseph Elser of CHI St. Vincent Primary & Convenient Care-Little Rock (Chenal).

Dr. Travis Hess has joined the staff of CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs as a physician working in the Emergency Department. Hess completed his residency at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Baton Rouge. He attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.

Dr. Joseph Elser, a board-certified pediatrician, has joined CHI St. Vincent Primary & Convenient Care-Little Rock (Chenal). Elser has served for three decades as division chief in general pediatrics at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and as a professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Nisa Trenthem was recently hired to manage the Registered Nurse Residency Program at CHI St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock. Jenny Bowe has been named clinical director of maternal child health, medical services and behavioral health, and Tabitha Childers has been named clinical director of emergency services.

Trenthem most recently was part of the startup leadership team for the new Baptist Health Medical Center in Conway, where she supervised the ICU, cardiac cath lab and interventional radiology services. Before that, she was assistant director of nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Bowe has been at CHI St. Vincent Infirmary since 1977 and has served in a number of leadership roles, including as clinical nurse manager of the neonatal intensive care unit and clinical nurse manager of maternal child health.

Childers had been nurse manager in the emergency department since starting at CHI St. Vincent in 2015. Before that, she was clinical supervisor at White River Health System at Batesville.

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