PAPN TX Private Practice Owners Roundtable - Thursday, June 26th 7:00 - 8:00 PM
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Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 7:00pm CT - 8:00pm CT
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Discussion of matters of interest to private practice owners
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PAPN Texas | Private-Practice Owners Roundtable
Are you running—or dreaming of launching—your own psychiatric-mental-health practice? Join our lively, come-as-you-are roundtable where Texas PMHNPs trade real-world insights on the business side of care.
What to expect
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Candid conversations on the triumphs and headaches of outpatient practice ownership—from keeping your clinical passion alive to taming cash-flow gremlins.
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Peer mentorship for mid-career nurse practitioners already in private practice and those gearing up to make the leap. All PAPN Texas members are welcome.
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A safe, supportive space to celebrate wins, crowd-source solutions, and build a network that has your back.
Past topics
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Setting—and sticking to—profitable fee schedules
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Surviving payer variability (plus a live demo of our revenue-projection calculator)
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Finding, vetting, and affording a delegating physician
June spotlight
This month we’ll dive into the nuts and bolts of practice infrastructure:
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Choosing an EHR & billing platform that won’t make you want to throw your laptop.
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Marketing that moves the needle—from Google Business hacks to referral pipelines.
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Your pressing questions—bring them and we’ll crowd-solve in real time.
Details
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Format: Drop-in discussion group (registration required)
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Who: PMHNPs and PMHNP students who own—or plan to own—a private practice
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Why: Mentorship, career support, and personal/professional growth in one energetic hour
Take the plunge with colleagues who get it. Secure your seat today and leave with practical tips, fresh perspectives, and a community that cheers you on. Registration is free but required.
Speakers
PMHNP at Synapse Psychiatry
Sherry Grogan APRN, RN, PMHNP-BC is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) with more than 14 years of experience. She has extensive experience across multiple professional and academic domains, including inpatient and outpatient clinical practice, professional leadership, nursing education, and scholarly writing. Ms. Grogan earned her psychiatric practitioner degree from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. Prior to graduate school, she served as a secondary school nurse and became a PMHNP as a response to the shortage of mental health clinicians for adolescents. Since graduation, she has worked as a psychiatric consult for transplant patients, as well as a provider at Houston’s Menninger Clinic, one of the nation’s premier mental health facilities. She spent 10 years in clinical research studying mood disorders and has published multiple research articles and book chapters. Ms. Grogan has also presented at several conferences on topics including psychiatry and heart disease, ADHD, transplant psychiatry and delirium. For the past 9 years, she has precepted and mentored PMHNP students from Texas Tech University, University of Texas, and others. She is also a founding board member of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses of Texas (PAPNTX), the first organization created to unify PMHNPs across the state. Ms. Grogan is the founder and owner of Synapse Psychiatry in Houston, where she treats patients with mood, anxiety, ADHD and thought disorders, as well as those with comorbid medical conditions. She takes pride in serving the mental health needs of her community. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family in Missouri City.