Welcome to the website of Physician Specialists in Anesthesia, based on the campus of Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta. I am proud and honored to serve in a leadership role for this extraordinary organization dedicated to providing high-quality anesthesiology, pain management, and perioperative services.

PSA's vision is strong and clear. We will continue to be the leading provider of adult anesthesiology services within the Atlanta healthcare community. To do so, we must maintain our priorities: the recruitment of highly capable physician and anesthetist employees, the promotion of education and achievement for our staff, and maintaining excellent service to our surgical colleagues. Most importantly, we will nurture a culture within our organization that assures exemplary service and safe care for our patients.

Like every other successful organization, education and communication will be critical components for us to accomplish our vision and to meet our goals. This website is a work in progress. It will ultimately serve both our customers and our employees as a valuable tool to enhance our ability to effectively educate and communicate. It is my hope that our patients will utilize our website to acquaint themselves with their anesthesia providers and to acquire more knowledge about the entire process of anesthesia. In this way, they will become more informed healthcare consumers. Eventually, this website will provide a vehicle for our patients to communicate with us prior to their scheduled procedure. This will ensure that we are aware of all important information that we need in order to safely care for the patient. It will also allow all of the patient's concerns to be addressed prior to surgery.

One of the unfortunate disadvantages of a career in anesthesiology is that the physician-patient interaction is often brief. We are usually not privileged to follow patients beyond a day or two after surgery. It is my sincere hope that this website will eventually provide an effective communication tool to facilitate your post-procedure communication with us, your anesthesiologist or pain management physician. This may provide us with important performance-based outcome data. It is only with such feedback that we can identify our strengths and weakness, address our failures, and realize our potential and our vision.

We thank you for the opportunity to serve you. Please let us hear from you.

Steven L. Sween, M.D.
Chairman of Anesthesia and Medical Director
Physician Specialists in Anesthesia, P.C.