Cheri Miller, Ms Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Greater Milwaukee Area

Consulting ServicesDeveloped and provided staff training for patient center medical home physician (PCMH) practices. Consulted with PCMH practices to implement motivational interviewing techniques to effectively set patient goals with the result of improving patient engagement and disease outcomes. 🔸 Increased staff knowledge of diabetes education and importance of patient self-management training by 30%. 🔸 Provided a five series program where the staff member mimicked patient behavior including glucose testing with the results of increased empathy for patients and understanding of glucose testing and response to values obtained.Presenter/SpeakerVarious presentations on health topics related to heart disease, diabetes, women's health through generations, mindfulness, stress reduction, cardiovascular and strength training for seniors. Benefits of combining safety initiatives with health and wellness messaging.Clinical Exercise PhysiologistProvided personal and sport-specific training for individuals and teams. Designed exercise prescriptions to help the individual meet cardiovascular, muscular fitness and health goals while adapting to clinical issues such as pulmonary disease, cancer, orthopedic recovery, adolescent obesity/diabetes and heart disease.

Wisconsin, United States

> Patina offers experienced Professionals on demand to help clients execute on key projects and initiatives, address open executive positions, and develop talent. Members of the firm’s extensive community of experts are available to help clients through consulting, interim and fulltime leadership roles, and talent development initiatives, including coaching and mentoring. My specialties are process improvement, technology implementation and team building.

Greater Milwaukee

For clients: Developed implementation strategy for wellness third party reseller clients. Provided implementation expertise and support for clients to successfully launch and utilize Motivation Alliance® health and wellness technology. Consulted with employers and third-party resellers to maximize health and wellness technology to create innovative wellness program to meet employer and employee health and wellness goals. Internal: Implemented project management principles to help internal initiatives come to fruition. Developed operation manual to guide staff members and use for new hire training. Provided trend information and expertise to ensure company continues to stay relevant as health and wellness environment evolves. Mentored executive and management positions to create a positive work culture. Outlined business development strategy and tips for sales and marketing.

Sussex, Wisconsin

🔸Redesigned biometric screening process to ensure financial viability resulting in demonstrating positive financial margins for each daily event🔸Enhanced program development to standardize across nationwide locations and capture program outcomes🔸Facilitated request for proposal and review process for procuring new wellness technology for client use 🔸Formulated detailed activity –based cost analysis in order to develop pricing models🔸Mentored wellness leadership team to enhance supervisory and client strategic planning skills and provided leadership training.🔸Launched new technology with client programs and worked through client-specific transitions

Cincinnati, Ohio

Executed network strategy by developing and implementing health management solutions to support internal employee, external corporate and service line community wellness initiatives. Recruited and built a cohesive and complimentary team of registered nurses, exercise physiologists, wellness coaches and group fitness/yoga instructors. Led customer-focused changes and improvements to billing and services.🔸 Led strategic planning for internal employee outcomes-based wellness program which resulted in an 80% employee participation rate and generated significant health improvements. 🔸 Produced an 8:1 ROI within three years of launching business to business population health and wellness solutions business initiative. Hospital and physician division new patient downstream revenue increased from $156,000 in 2015 to $315,000 for the first 6 months of 2017 fiscal year and $36,000 to $90,000, respectively.🔸 Provided subject matter expertise regarding population health management strategies and incentive program design in accordance to affordable care act requirements for 50+ corporate clients and benefits consultants. Customized and implemented software as a service (saas) for population data and incentive tracking. 🔸 Collaborated with service line executive directors to provide outpatient wellness services to support network center of excellent and value-based programs which resulted in a significant increase in patient referrals.

Cardiac Wellness/ Cardiac Rehabilitation

Oversaw daily operations for cardiac rehabilitation program including referrals, data outcomes and billing. Mentored staff utilizing individual and departmental goals to encourage personal and professional development for registered nurses, exercise physiologists and office coordinator🔸 Project managed successful application for American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) program certification 🔸 Implemented a heart healthy menu restaurant program that was awarded the American Heart Association community innovation award.🔸 Oversaw vendor selection and successful implementation of telemetry system

Cincinnati Area

Generated individualized exercise prescriptions and guided cardiac patients through cardiovascular and strength training sessions. Helped cardiac patient successfully reduce risk factors utilizing motivational interviewing techniques. Created MS Access database for pulmonary patient documentation to track program outcomes and provide a streamline approach for physician communication and reporting.🔸 Reduced smoking cessation rates by 70%. 🔸 Improve patient quality of life and functional capability scores in pulmonary patients by 30% by utilizing individualized exercise program, self-care strategies and incorporating fun challenges to engage patients.🔸 Achieved AACVPR pulmonary rehabilitation new program certification.

Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiology

Collaborated with registered nurses to provide cardiac rehabilitation services for patients. Increased responsibilities within one year to include participation in episode of care teams, medication compliance research, departmental JCAHO accreditation team, implementation of Marquette/GE CardioWindow system and Super User training and process improvement initiatives. Pioneered Episode of care outpatient disease management interventions.🔸 Successfully reduced hospital admissions (61%), length of stay (37%) and total charges (59%) by initiating a heart failure telemanagement program as part of Episode of care team.🔸 Designed and implemented heart failure telemanagement program, including transplants, with desired outcome of decreasing length of stay per admission (any diagnosis) from 6.8 days to 4.29 days and reducing total charges from $23,764 to $9,703.🔸 Identified and recovered over $30,000 per month in loss of charges by reviewing billing processes in the heart station after implementing hospital wide Marquette bedside ECG system. Reduce ECG reading time from 2 days to under 12 hours. 🔸 Prepared and presented performance improvement data to JCAHO accreditation team for the cardiology department, including cardiac rehabilitation, stress testing, nuclear imaging, echocardiography, heart station, and clinic areas.

Master Of Science (Ms), Exercise Physiology

Master Degree in exercise physiology with concentration in adult fitness and cardiac rehabilitation. Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

Bachelor'S Degree, Physical Education, Minor, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Nu -Professional co-ed business fraternityK-12 physical education teaching certificate 7-12 Computer.