Chief Operating & Development Officer for multispecialty physician practice (nephrology, ob-gyn) including outpatient dialysis centers

Consulting firm specializing in healthcare leadership services, physician/hospital integration, strategic planning, capital formation, physician manpower planning, and leadership performance.

Creation and leadership of an integrated hospital and health system through the design and implementation of a long-range strategic plan. As CEO, served extended interim roles as both chief operating officer and chief financial officer directly supervising fiscal services, plant operations, ancillary services, clinical centers of excellence, information systems, foundation, health information management, quality assurance, medical staff services, and marketing/public relations.• Formed regional, semi-rural referral medical center for a four-county market area resulting in a 300% patient population base increase (overall 27 point increase in regional market share).• Actively led physician recruitment/retention activities resulting in an expansion of medical staff from 20 to 105 physicians through physician employment model.• Reorganized hospital operations:1st year fiscal turnaround of $3.6 million w/positive net incomes in subsequent years (range of 2.5% to 7.5% of revenues). Gross patient revenues reflect greater than five-fold expansion accomplished in an economically depressed area. • Initiated clinical partnerships with St. Vincent Hospital– Indianapolis (Ascension Health) & Reid Hospital–Richmond; development/construction of joint venture cancer treatment center, cardiovascular center (1st year revenue increase of $4.7 million), & hospitalist services. • Led integrated teams on multiple building projects totaling over $50 million in capital • Established an integrated physician - hospital organization through creation of 40-physician employment model, multiple joint ventures, and managed care network (PHN) covering 20,000 lives.• Implemented CQI focused on process redesign and productivity (LEAN methodology), reducing operating expenses as a % of patient revenues by 11.5%.• Hospital Quality Awards included Top 50 non-teaching hospitals (CHIPS), HealthGrades (pulmonary medicine), PRC inpatient & Gold Standard Management Award (Management House).

Led development of regional, health care system under the direction of system chief executive officer. Management of multi-state, multiple affiliated hospital system; interim executive management roles (including 2-yr. CEO at 130 bed facility); clinical outreach through specialty clinics; mobile diagnostics including cancer, cardiovascular, mammography & corporate health, strategic/business planning and rural medical outreach program development with the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine (resulting in establishment of rural health family practice/nurse practitioner centers), and; member of planning team for multiple, successful Certificate of Need applications.

Venture capital hospital and physician practice investment/ management firm. Strategic planning and operations management of health care consulting and management firm. Merger and acquisition analysis on behalf of health care organizations. • Brokered the acquisition of three hospitals and participated on interim turnaround management team during transitions.• Developed hospital strategic plans, medical staff development plans and MSO services.• Provided management services to both solo and multi-specialty physician practices.• Negotiated acquisition of physician practices on behalf of hospitals and physician groups.• Planned and developed urgent care centers, satellite physician offices and ambulatory surgery centers, including $9 million medical mall.