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Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Helping clients identify, measure, and manage risk exposure.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Provide organizational and systems leadership to the medical group leadership and employed physicians / mid-level providers on elimination of health disparities and promotion of patient safety and excellence in practice. Develops and operationalizes initiatives related to clinical quality and quality measurement as required by risk management, compliance, payors, regulators, and other key stakeholders. Assures compliance with state licensing agencies, NCQA accreditation/certification standards, and other regulatory bodies. Analyses incident reporting trends to design, direct, and evaluate quality improvement methodologies to promote system-wide safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered care. Employ effective communication and collaborative skills in the development and implementation of practice models, peer review, practice guidelines, health policy, and standards of care. Develop and sustain therapeutic relationships and partnerships with patients (individual, family or group) and other professionals to facilitate optimal care and patient outcomes. Provide leadership in the evaluation and resolution of ethical and legal issues within the healthcare system.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Primary responsibility focused on protection of corporate assets from loss, improvement of patient services and safety, prevention and reduction of hospital-acquired infections with full compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation and regulatory reporting. Established a clinically driven corporate loss prevention program to reduce areas of high-risk potential in hospitals located in six states. Ensured that risk and infection prevention programs were effectively implemented, trends were identified, reported, analyzed, and corrected. Evaluated the efficacy of clinical risk management and infection prevention programs, and analysis of clinical interventions and outcomes of patient care. Developed and coordinated system-wide clinical risk and infection prevention educational programs. Participated in the planning and implementation of product lines to ensure clinical risk and infection prevention initiatives were in place. Member of Hospital Operational Improvement Team. Ensured compliance with risk management and infection prevention related regulatory and state guidelines, standards, and reporting requirements for Joint Commission and DNV. Identified issues and adverse trends that jeopardized the safety and/or quality of the relationship between patients and facility staff and facilitated corrective action and preventative measures to prevent future occurrences. Provided guidance and assistance to facility administration, medical staff, nursing leaders, quality directors, and risk managers in the promotion of patient safety and infection prevention. Supported the activities related to the medical staff credentialing process providing on-site support if patient safety concerns occur.Developed and implemented a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) operational plan for Florida Market including policies and procedures to accurately identify and manage patient safety work product (PSWP) and automate incident report submission to contracted PSO.

Accountable to the market leadership and corporate operations team for the provision of guidance to facility leaders that enables the facilities to ensure the safe and efficient operation of clinical departments and functions. Provide leadership, direction and consultative guidance to the management, medical staff, and clinical areas in planning, promoting, and conducting organization-wide resource management activities including case management, performance improvement, and risk prevention/management activities and compliance with regulatory agency standards.

Create and maintain a safe healthy environment for all patients, visitors and employees of IASIS Healthcare facilities.

Florida Hospital Healthcare System (FHHS) - an Integrated Delivery System (IDS) affiliated with Florida Hospital. Managed two healthcare networks serving the needs of Central Florida: the FHHS IDS Tri-County Network and the Complete Health Network (CHN). As a partnership between Florida Hospital and its physicians, coordinated high quality, cost effective patient care to help members remain healthy. The integrated system includes physicians, hospitals and ancillary providers – all committed and working together, as well as offering complete third party administrative (TPA) services.

Doctorate In Nursing Practice, Executive Leadership

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau Honor SocietyDoctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) with a specialization in executive leadership. Key.

Mba Msn, Business Administration And Nursing Leadership In Health Care Systems

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society

Bsn, Nursing