Nicholas Kuhl, MD, FACEP
System Medical Director of Emergency Services – Emergency Care Specialists
Dr. Nicholas Kuhl is the System Emergency Services Medical Director for the Corewell Health West group of 11 hospitals. He leads clinical care delivery in the emergency departments, representing 205K patient visits per year. Dr. Kuhl’s focus is on guiding best practice and process alignment across facilities, including quality improvement, operational efficiency, and clinical innovation, frequently collaborating across institutions. With the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium, he has led successful antibiotic stewardship efforts to reduce catheter associated UTIs and exposure to unnecessarily long antibiotic courses for CAP patients. Within Corewell Health he’s published numerous multispecialty collaborative clinical guidelines including outpatient blood culture management, ED based HIV screening, evidence directed behavioral health medical clearance, and ED induction of medication assisted therapy for opioid use disorder.
