Currently employed at Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical CenterA patient-focused pharmacy operations leader with over 15 years of pharmacy management experience. My philosophy is that pharmacy exists to continually improve patient’s lives by optimizing care and operational processes, adopting new technology and leading an engaged staff. Experienced leading operational excellence projects and new process development with a focus on optimizing the standard of pharmaceutical care for patients and operations of the pharmacy department. Pharmacy practice experience includes: outpatient pharmacist, independent pharmacist, consultant pharmacist, community retail pharmacist, inpatient pharmacist, pharmacist in charge, and pharmacy supervisor.16 years of experience in the profession working in various settings and positions. Management and increasing the efficiencies of operations have been the emphasis over the past 6 six years. Current and previous position include activities:~Project Management/Optimization of pharmacy programs:*Design: work flow, physical layout, and opening of new County pharmacy facilities (currently working to open the VMC @ Downtown Pharmacy open date 6/13/16*Project Management design tools: Charter, team resource management, user acceptance testing, cutover plans, deployment plans, tracking issues and product enhancement.~Staffing/Human Resources*Interview and hire, Pharmacists, Technicians, and Pharmacy Clerks*perform annual evaluations on these staff*ensure staff are up to date with recent trainings*Provide orientation and training for some of the new hires~Pharmacy Informatics: *Participated with the implementation of an electronic medical record system(NextGen)*Participated with the Outpatient workflow for Healthlink/Willow/Epic deployment*Participated with deployment and integration of the Point of Sale system (Emporos) *Familiarity with Kaiser's Pharmacy Manager System, EPIMS as well as GSL prescription storage system ~Finance/Analytics:*Review FTE data and prescription volume to assist with creating staffing models and budget forecasting*In conjunction with Finance and Business unit, review and establish insurance contracts for Pharmacy Business Management (PBM) contracts.*Review productivity data based on job classification*Analyze monthly data trends with volume and strategize on how to increase market share and improve wait time.~Operations*staffing to keep updated with workflows and to understand issues better*Liaison between staff and Informatics group to resolve work flow problems.
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