David Semple Email & Phone Number

• Provided guidance to board, management and medical staff leaders of rural West Virginia hospital as to how implementation of Affordable Care Act may affect them and suggest strategic response in order to thrive.
• Developed comprehensive work plan to stabilize, focus and grow clinical, administrative and financial operations while serving as Interim CEO of a Massachusetts Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
• Provided guidance to senior executives of a major US manufacturer regarding the challenges facing US hospitals as a result of Affordable Care Act and what problems and opportunities they may present for sales of its.
• Analyzed for rural Massachusetts hospital and FQHC the benefits of transferring hospital-employed physicians to the community health center.
• Identified closure of ICU in a cost saving move, to be the cause of dramatic decline in emergency, surgery and inpatient volume at a rural California hospital. Prepared financial case for re-opening ICU and secured.
• Provided economic, service and financial analysis that averted hostile take-over of rural Tennessee District Hospital by regional referral hospital. Presented the case to the voters, resulted in their rejection of.

Recruited to CEO position to create and implement new vision for struggling 216-bed facility. Responsible for all financial and clinical operations of hospital. Developed and implemented strategic plan that turned around financial performance. Led team to initiate new clinical services, recruit physicians and improve profitability. Developed flexible.

As vice president, I held primary responsibility for improving hospital management’s relations with medical staff who typically held appointments at two nearby competing hospitals. Accomplishments included:§ Recruited dozens of physicians to existing practices, providing income guarantees at no cost to hospital.§ Created “time-share” physician offices to.

Promoted to planning position in recognition of collaborative planning skills involving physicians, nurses, other clinical and support staff to improve hospital operations. Identified multi-department and multi-profession operational issues, developing and implementing improvement plans. Created strategic vision and operating plans for sixteen clinical.

§ Developed reimbursement program for newly created Community Homes for Retarded Citizens. § Prepared first Program Budget for DMH, which identified funding by major clinical programs.

Cushman Management Company owned and operated four skilled nursing facilities in eastern Massachusetts. Responsible for all clinical and financial operations. Administrator§ Twin Oaks Nursing Home 120 bed facility, Danvers, MA § Oxford Manor Nursing Home 120 bed facility Haverhill, MA

Mba, Strategic Planning & Management

Ba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Beta Alpha Psi Accounting Society, Best Original Paper