GeriScan Geriatric Consulting

As the senior population grows, it is likely that Alzheimer's cases could triple by 2050 to more than 13 million patients.

HISTORY

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GeriScan Geriatric Consulting
PO Box 777
Clarks Summit, PA 18411
570.586.0655

Susan Scanland began her geriatric career in 1968 as a teen hospital volunteer. She worked as a nursing assistant in a summer college internship and spent part of senior year on a clinical neurology rotation at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda MD. Completing her BSN in 1979 from Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre PA, she was amazed at the percentage of elderly patients she cared for on a medical/surgical unit in NEPA. Sold on the role of the nurse practitioner during her undergraduate years, she entered the MSN nurse practitioner program at University of Pittsburgh in 1980. Inspired by gerontological mentors who served on her thesis committee (Susanne Robb, PhD and Joan McDowell, CRNP, PhD) she completed a master's thesis on Alzheimer's and other dementias.

Since then, Alzheimer's research and the field of geriatrics have exploded along with the expanding elderly population. Susan practiced as a geriatric nurse practitioner in a Veterans Administration nursing home from 1982-1987, following many patients with Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, depression, and other geriatric syndromes longitudinally for six years, while educating and counseling their family members. Susan offered regional geriatric seminars through CV Mosby, and then spent 12 years teaching family medicine residents geriatrics while visiting elders on house calls and in nursing homes from 1987-1999 at the Wyoming Valley Family Practice Residency in Kingston PA.

GeriScan was initiated on September 9, 1999. A part-time teaching position from January 2000 to May 2003 on the graduate nurse practitioner faculty at Binghamton University (SUNY) cushioned the new business venture financially and expanded Susan's geriatric educational experiences. Susan's new venture was also supported by her husband, John Scanland, DPM.

GeriScan has grown each year and has become a profitable national consulting firm. Business coach Hart Davidow began consulting GeriScan four years ago. Susan has reached approximately 500 audiences in 38 states and Canadian provinces, as well as the Bahamas.

GeriScan has been recognized twice regionally: Susan was named The Scranton Times Northeast Woman of the Week on September 12, 2004 and recognized as one of the Top 25 Women in Business in Northeastern Pennsylvania by the Northeast PA Business Journal on June 22, 2005. GeriScan's mission is improved quality of care to elders through education of health care providers and consumers, which Susan Scanland remains passionate about… maybe because we are all aging!