Health & Wellness
Memorial Health announced today that Jacob Boucher, MD, has been tapped to serve as Medical Director of Memorial Medical Group (MMG), the employed provider network of the health system. In this role, Dr. Boucher will be engaged in creating opportunities for the continued growth of the medical group that now includes a network of 55 providers, more than 140 employees, and office locations throughout Marysville, Richwood, Plain City, and Urbana.
Spence Fisher, Executive Vice President, Memorial Health and MMG President, comments, “Our medical group was formed in 2008 and has grown substantially over the last decade. It’s time to add additional clinical oversight and infrastructure to further drive our quality, satisfaction, and results. Based upon Dr. Boucher’s demonstrated leadership and the clinical initiatives he has led since joining our team, we are confident this is the right time and the right person to support the maturation of MMG.”
In addition to being part of the team overseeing overall growth within MMG, Dr. Boucher will also have responsibilities related to quality improvement, policy and protocol development, provider recruitment and onboarding, and patient experience coaching.
Dr. Boucher joined MMG in 2017 as a fellowship-trained sports medicine and family practice provider. Due to the growth of Memorial’s sports medicine program, in 2021, he transitioned to a focus on that specialty as part of the Memorial Orthopedics & Sports Medicine team. He also served as team physician for many of the organization’s school partners, including Marysville Exempted Village School District, Fairbanks Local School District, and North Union Local School District.
Also in that year, he assumed the role of Assistant Medical Director of MMG as part of the broad oversight structure aimed to increase provider involvement with Memorial’s outpatient structure. In that role, he spearheaded a number of initiatives related to peer review, controlled substance prescription practices, EMR-use efficiency and improvements, and pre-admission testing processes.
Fisher adds, “With Dr. Boucher’s passion for continuous improvement, we have great anticipation for all he will accomplish in a role that allows him to dedicate his work to MMG’s continued focus on patient care.”
Dr. Boucher holds an undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Central Arkansas and attended Medical School at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. After a family medicine residency at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center where he served as Chief Resident his final year, he completed a fellowship in sports medicine, also at Grant.
