Brenda Kaplan Rn

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Manager of Process Improvement at Providence Medical Group - formerly St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare
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Novato, California, United States, United States
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About Brenda Kaplan Rn

I am a registered nurse with expansive experience as a program manager and case manager in the hospital setting as well as for a large health insurance company in a variety of roles. I created and managed a program which resulted in over $56-million in cost-savings. I successfully case managed a large service line and assisted with the creation and implementation of processes improving the bed availability for scheduled admissions, generating additional revenue. Additional strengths include: ability to collect, analyze and synthesize data, allowing the improvement of existing processes. Proven ability to create partnerships with internal and external organizations resulting in an increase of jointly run projects.

Brenda Kaplan Rn's Current Company Details

Manager of Process Improvement at Providence Medical Group - formerly St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare
Brenda Kaplan Rn Work Experience Details
  • St.Joseph Heritage Healthcare
    Manager, Population Health
    St.Joseph Heritage Healthcare Nov 2016 - Apr 2023
    Santa Rosa, Ca
    Supports multi-disciplinary quality improvement teams in creating, investigating, analyzing, and executing quality and performance improvement projects across multiple outpatient practice settings.o Collaborates with Medical Directors and operations leaders to develop and maintain a standard reporting package which can be produced monthly for physicians and providers to monitor P4P and organizational goals performance.o Problem solving and analysis: utilizes effective and creative problem solving techniques in conjunction with variety of information systems (Allscripts, QIS, and Cozeva) to develop solutions and resolve problems.
  • St. Joseph Heritage Health
    Care Network Nurse Manager-Contractor
    St. Joseph Heritage Health Jun 2014 - Nov 2016
    Santa Rosa, Ca
    FOCUSING ON QUALITY IN A CHANGING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. Assist the organization to remain competitive in a rapidly changing healthcare environment by identifying opportunities, developing and assisting in the successful implementation of improved processes.
  • Blue Shield Of California
    Medicare Star Program Manager
    Blue Shield Of California 2012 - 2014
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Maximized CMS Medicare STAR ratings by interfacing with organizational stakeholders including Health Services, Pharmacy, Customer Service, Provider Relations and other key stakeholders to develop relationships, anticipate or resolve issues, and promote mutually beneficial strategies and processes for quality improvement. • During HEDIS pursuit, identified internal resources on short notice when measures were in jeopardy.• Established relationships with provider groups leading to their active participation in the improvement of various star measures.
  • Blue Shield
    Statewide Program Manager Healthy Families Program
    Blue Shield 2001 - 2012
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Built and oversaw day-to-day operations of California’s SCHIP program for Blue Shield. • Created processes by partnering with the various departments within BSC such as claims, pharmacy, medical management, and provider relations which led to $56 million cost-savings. • Streamlined department operations allowing doubling the workload without the need to increase staff.• Routinely evaluated and improved operations giving the team the ability to identify new cases up to two months sooner than the original process.
  • Blue Shield Of California
    Manager Of Care Management-Northern Region Hmo
    Blue Shield Of California 1997 - 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Responsible for a team of nurses and non-clinical staff which promoted the delivery of quality; cost-effective health care services based on medical necessity and contractual benefits as well providing support to IPA/MGs, members and their families. • Seamlessly transitioned the functions of entire team to San Francisco, including hiring and training a team comprised of registered nurses and authorization coordinators with minimal to no impact to members, and or providers.• Created workflows and interviewer reliability tools specific to the HMO product increasing staff morale.
  • Blue Shield Of California
    Regional Case Manager
    Blue Shield Of California 1996 - 1997
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Responsible for assisting in the case management of HMO and POS members within the 9-bay area counties.• Coordinated out of area admissions, flexing of benefits, and contracting with providers. • Partnered with IPA/Medical Groups to manage members with complex needs, acting as a resource when appropriate. • Collaborated with brokers to help transition difficult cases.• Identified the need and created a process to inform finance of high-dollar cases.
  • Lucile Packard Children'S Hospital @ Stanford
    Case Manager- Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplants
    Lucile Packard Children'S Hospital @ Stanford 1992 - 1996
    Palo Alto, California
    Case managed one of the hospital’s busiest service lines, attending rounds, monitoring utilization of patients, keeping third party payers apprised of a patient’s stay.• Conceived and led initiative to transition department from unit to service line based case management. • Identified the need & jointly created & implemented the process to move certain chemotherapy regimens from an in-patient to out-patient setting. • Selected to participate on a team responsible for coordinating the transition of the kidney & liver transplant team to LPCH from another facility.

Brenda Kaplan Rn Skills

Managed Care Process Improvement Healthcare Health Plan Operations Experienced Program Manager Utilization Management Hmo Delegated Model Schip Medicare Advantage Care Manager Data Analysis Disaster Response Introduction To The Incident Command System Medicare Health Insurance Provider Relations Health Policy Healthcare Management Quality Improvement Management Program Management Medicaid Hipaa Hospitals Disease Management Case Management Training Business Process Improvement U.s. Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

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What is Brenda Kaplan Rn's role at the current company?

Brenda Kaplan Rn's current role is Manager of Process Improvement at Providence Medical Group - formerly St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare.

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Brenda Kaplan Rn has skills like Managed Care, Process Improvement, Healthcare, Health Plan Operations, Experienced Program Manager, Utilization Management, Hmo, Delegated Model, Schip, Medicare Advantage, Care Manager, Data Analysis.

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