Grace Pointe & Medical Partners
The NCH Group provides on-site services for all rehabilitation residents at Grace Pointe. When a rehabilitation patient arrives at Grace Pointe, a dedicated member of the physician team will follow their care to provide consistent, coordinated, and person-centered care. Once the patient is discharged from Grace Pointe Rehabilitation, their Primary Physician is contacted to resume their care in the community.
Northern Colorado Hospitalists Group provides Physician and Nurse Practitioner services for the residents of Grace Pointe, should a resident choose to use the onsite services. Residents who choose NCH Group’s services benefit from being seen in the privacy of their apartment rather than at a medical clinic. NCH Group also uses Epic as the patient charting system. Epic is a fully integrated, CMS-certified electronic medical record (EMR) system and is the most widely used EMR in the US. To date, more than 50 percent of the US population has their medical records in Epic. More than 1,800 physicians throughout Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska utilize UCHealth’s shared ambulatory patient record in Epic.
Our History
Northern Colorado Hospitalists Group was founded in 2004 by 3 Hospitalists that joined forces to provide inpatient care at Poudre Valley Hospital. Since that time, the group has grown to over 60 physicians with two additional UC Health hospitals, Medical Center of the Rockies in 2007 and Greeley Hospital in 2019. Two of our founding partners are still with the group, 18 years later.
Hallmarks of NCH
With the average annual physician turnover for Hospital Medicine at nearly 11% in 2020, NCH boasts an unprecedented physician retention rate with an industry-low turnover of just 2.9% over the past 5 years.
Many of our physicians hold the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine certificate from SHM
All of our Hospitalists are ABIM-certified
Largest and oldest independent Hospital Medicine group in Northern Colorado
Multi-generational and diverse group
Our clinical quality metrics are some of the best in the country.
The Grace Pointe NCH Team
Masumi Arakane, MD
Dr. Masumi Arakane grew up in Ecuador where she attended medical school. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and then worked as a hospitalist in Iowa before deciding to move to Colorado. In her spare time, Dr. Arakane enjoys traveling, playing piano, cooking and enjoying the outdoors with her husband and two dogs.
Sarah Burton, NP
Sarah graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2020 with an NP degree and a focus in geriatric and acute care. Prior to graduation, she had been a registered nurse for over a decade. Sarah’s experience as a nurse shaped her passion for caring for the geriatric population and since obtaining her NP, she has served the northern Colorado community in the long term and post-acute rehab setting. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her husband and their many rescue fur-babies. Sarah loves to hike, travel, tend to her garden and flowers, paint and create things, sports, and spending time with her extended family and friends.