Barbara Maclellan Email & Phone Number

South Weymouth, Ma

-Prepare and present Diagnosis Accuracy reports to various department heads.-Work with the coding manager to facilitate validation between the coding and CDI departments for accuracy in DRG’s being coded.-Review and revise policies of the department after being promoted to the manager position.-Develop new orientation manual for new staff after promotion to the manager position.-Communicate with Quality and Legal departments with any potential HAC’s or PSI’s that could be a problem.-Participate on the team scoping documents for upcoming 3M 360 conversion.-Develop workflow with 3M 360 for conversion for CDI department.-Developed an escalation process with the Chief of the Hospitalist Department to manage any queries that were not answered within three days.

South Weymouth, Ma

-Perform concurrent reviews of the Intensive Care Units to ensure the documentation accurately reflects the severity of the patient’s illness -Partcipate in template committee meetings for critical care templates to be used for EPIC and identified trends and issues in their documentation.-Collect progress notes to evaluate change in documentation and areas needing improvement for teaching the providers.-With clinical knowledge of the disease process, education and support was given when needed when queries were given to providers in the ICU.-Assist in training new employees who were added to the staff in the department.-Create wound card with the wound care nurse for the hospital that was distributed throughout the hospital for better charting of pressure ulcers.-Assist in plans to develop and continuously adjust the Access database that was developed to track the queries while our CDI team was number one on the matrix for the hospital. -Achieve the 50% query rate (Department query rate expectation is 30%).

Natick, Ma

-Initiated first clinical documentation program in the hospital to educate the medical staff on accurately documenting the severity of illness and risk of mortality.-Provided clinical resource for the medical staff for their documentation questions.-Coordinated with inpatient coders to lower the number of post discharge queries.

Boston, Ma

-Assisted in reformatting billing sheets to make them more precise in capturing a more accurate diagnosis and DRG.-Provide skilled care to patients with high risk pregnancies including pre-eclampsia, diabetes, pulmonary embolus, pulmonary edema, renal disease, chronic hypertension, and prematurity.-Provide post surgical care to patients after OB/GYN procedures.-Assist patients with the birth of their babies in a high risk center.-Experience in an outpatient setting including phone triage, outpatient testing, education and medications. (Flu shots, birth control, and Rhogam)-Input patient charts in the hospital computer system.

Dorchester, Ma

Dorchester, Ma