Dennis Lewis, Mha, Cprp-Dei Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Responsible for leading the Physician Integration Services teams that recruit, credential, onboard, and facilitate the growth of physicians, advanced practice and allied health providers for Baptist Medical Group.

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Greater St. Louis Area

• Led the development of a dedicated, in-house physician recruitment team. This includes selection, training, and development of recruitment professionals.
• Worked with a multi-disciplinary team including physician leadership, transformation support and senior executives to re-design and enhance provider recruitment workflows.
• Instituted a system of metrics to benchmark process milestones against national data and year over year performance.
• Collaborated with physician leadership team to improve candidate experience, establishing physician site visit best practices that dramatically improved interview to hire ratios.
• Annual yield for hired providers increased from 60 (19 physicians/41 APPs) in 2016 to 114 (68 physician/46 APPs) in 2019.
• Diversified sourcing strategies resulting in continued growth for 2020, despite pandemic-driven market factors. Through the second quarter, our team exceeded 2019’s record results.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Managed the provider recruitment, acquisition, onboarding and practice startup processes for assigned hospital regions within the BJC system.
• Oversaw the planning and onboarding processes for newly recruited providers and/or acquired practices.
• Working with the Medical Group finance team and hospital leadership, completed a pro forma for targeted provider recruitment and acquired practices.
• Promoted to Director when the provider recruitment team was positioned to focus exclusively on recruitment.

Cape Girardeau, MO

• Directed all operations for the physician practices of Southeast Medical Group, which consisted of 18 practices ranging from primary care to cardiothoracic surgery.
• Led a team consisted of 3 senior leaders (operations, clinical and finance), 12 managers, and 250 staff supporting the work of over 130 physicians.
• Responsible for annual budget in excess of $50 Million.
• Established productivity metrics for employed providers and worked with physician leadership to support any providers falling short of system targets.
• Worked to standardize physician employment agreements and compensation structure to eliminate system-wide inconsistencies that negatively impacted provider engagement.

Boonville, Missouri, United States

• Led operational, financial and admissions processes for a 76-bed Joint Commission accredited chemical dependency and substance abuse treatment facility.
• Effectively managed operational expenses while driving stronger patient revenue, resulting in a 29% increase of revenue surplus.
• Launched internal review of medication expenses leading to project work collaborating with the Director of Nursing to refine ordering and management practices. This resulted in a significant cost savings for our.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Led all day to day operations of the Donor Services Center (DSC), which served as the nexus for coordinating the cornea and tissue donation and recovery processes.
• Regions served by the DSC included the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Alabama and New York.
• Led a team of 25 shift leaders and coordinators that staffed the call center 24/7 to educate families and manage the logistics associated with tissue recovery.
• Developed workflow to seamlessly transition from donor eligibility screening, family approach for donation decisions, to tissue recovery and processing.

• Consulted with health systems nationally to improve provider recruitment outcomes and fulfill key physician growth strategies.
• Worked collaboratively with leadership team to design and implement a system of metrics to evaluate team performance, establish and achieve departmental goals.
• Quickly established rapport with physicians of diverse specialty, cultural and training backgrounds to effectively qualify a mutual fit for clients and candidates.

Upon earning a Bachelor’s degree, I worked in marketing and sales roles within the information technology industry in Nebraska and Missouri. This experience solidified a strong work ethic, relationship building skills, and a results-driven consultative approach. Success in these areas created opportunity in health care that drove my decision to pursue a.

Master'S, Health Administration

Coursework consisted of extensive study in care quality, performance standards, regulatory requirements and compliance, health care.

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication

Coursework completed consisted of a primary focus on organizational and interpersonal communication.