• Lead weekly Utilization Management(UM) meetings forMedicare/managed care skilled services and barriers to discharge effectively reducing re-hospitalization rates for inpatient and discharged residents over 30-, 60-, 90- day metric• Developed programming forPDPM leveling and appropriate CMI/function scores to maximize relevant reimbursement• Developed, managed, and developed systems for QAPI assessments addressing falls, weight loss,GG accuracy, splint and orthotic use, productivity, group & concurrent use• Developed Covid policies and procedures addressing testing, visitation, isolation and special precautions per DPH and CDC guidelines• Developed data management strategies for facility wide Covid-19 testing results• Managed Covid communications to all staff and family re: testing results, new positive cases, and changes in visitation policies per CDC and DPH guidelines• Case management for short-term rehab patients with discharge planning to VNA and elder services or conversion to long term care• Reduced over utilization of therapy minutes to 5% under PPS• Under PDPM, increased therapy group and concurrent use to 18% of all Med A minutes over arolling 7-day lookback.• Consistently exceeded efficiency expectation of 50%• Developed and implemented nursing and rehab CHF programming to achieve American HeartAssociation certification for heart failure residents with objectives to reduce rehospitalizationusing early identification strategies for CHF risk factors• Developed policies & protocols addressing thickened liquids, resident functional statuscommunication, bed rail and entrapment risk• Collaborated with nursing team to develop interventions for all resident falls• Provided regional level pre-survey assessments• Developed orthopedic rehab programming in coordination with facility ortho MD withobjective to reduce infection rate and length of stay in conjunction with operating ortho MDprotocols

• Assessments and Treatments for Speech, Language, Voice, Cognitive impairments. • assessment and treatment of dysphagia• maintained > 85% productivity• CPR certified• MOCA certified• developed training for facility use of translation services• developed dysphagia management protocols for carryover facility wide