David Northern, has over 35 years of transformational leadership experience in acute care hospitals, hospital consulting, and physician practice management. His hospital background includes senior level leadership of hospital clinical, ancillary, and support services departments in both proprietary and nonproprietary hospitals.EXPERTISEClinical Transformation, Change Management, Performance Improvement ImplementationProject Management, AccreditationLabor Management, Patient Throughput ImprovementWork Flow Improvement?implementation, CompliancePatient Satisfaction Improvement, Physician Practice ManagementProductivity Improvement, Core Measures ImprovementService Improvement, Revenue ImprovementRESULTS• Initiated new programs and services that increased hospital’s net revenue by over $2.5 million. Services included cardiac catheterization service, and MRI service.• Achieved annualized revenue improvements for client hospitals ranging from $1 million to over $4 million.• Implemented Care Coordination/Case Management plan reducing inpatient average length of stay by over one-half day.• Increased emergency department billable volume by 9 percent (from 29,930 annual visits to 32,623 annual visits), while reducing emergency department overall length of stay by 32 percent (from 252 minutes to 171 minutes).• Improved client hospital emergency department Core Measures compliance to 95 percent or better.• Reduced client hospital’s staffing costs by $1.3 million through work redesign.• Established surgical pre-admission testing processes that improved surgical throughput, decreased day of surgery cancellations, and improved patient satisfaction.Specialties: Performance improvement, patient throughput improvement (emergency department, inpatient units, and surgical services), productivity/labor management, acute care hospital management, physician practice management, and revenue cycle improvement.