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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

• Selected to complete a 1-year postgraduate fellowship, operating directly under the Regional CEO and hospital President to develop leadership and management skills through broad, system-wide experiences.
• Developed and operationalized comprehensive dashboard to track regional COVID-19 statistics: used to forecast spikes in cases, monitor PPE and ventilator utilization, and assess inpatient unit capacity.
• Co-directed weekly, 14-hour Incident Command Center shifts: responsible for… Show more
• Co-directed weekly, 14-hour Incident Command Center shifts: responsible for COVID patient tracing, evaluating capacity limitations, and implementing new policies and procedures.
• Reduced readmissions by 18% in Q2 through co-facilitating a weeklong Rapid Improvement Event (RIE), including value stream analysis, process mapping, and Gemba experiments.
• Collaborated with community stakeholders to host a "See, Test, and Treat" event, which provided free cervical and breast cancer screenings to 100+ uninsured women in the community. Show less

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Instructed two Introduction to Management courses each semester, a course designed to introduce students to the strategies behind effective team performance, cohesiveness, and management.
• Functioned as a liaison between the professor and 104 students per semester; interpreting and translating lecture material into meaningful weekly lesson plans for students.
• Evaluated, identified, and mediated intergroup conflict. Provided guidance and direction and developed customized performance… Show more
• Evaluated, identified, and mediated intergroup conflict. Provided guidance and direction and developed customized performance improvement plans for poor-performing teams.
• Received highest student approval rating (95%) across all Teaching Assistants in the Department of Management & Organizations for three consecutive semesters. Show less

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed and proposed recommendations to Executive Leadership Team to secure a $2M investment to merge 2 infusion centers and expand service line growth by 71% in 4 years.
• Identified $86,000 of unrealized reimbursement opportunity through analyzing biologic medication usage. Presented to leadership to justify creating a patient-acuity tool for the infusion center.
• Redesigned nurse staffing models to optimize workflows, enhance efficiency, and increase patient volume in the… Show more
• Redesigned nurse staffing models to optimize workflows, enhance efficiency, and increase patient volume in the NorthShore Skokie Hospital infusion center by 10% without expanding operating hours.
• Managed a 15-person, interdisciplinary team developing a system-wide care continuum redesign to increase care coordination for total joint replacement, complex surgical, and complex medical cases. Show less

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Identified process interruptions in the hospital billing and collections cycles, and implemented sustainable resolutions to proactively identify and address future issues that arise.
• Relieved A/R by $215K by discovering aged accounts requiring resolution.
• Built and applied internal framework for bad debt escalation process, estimated to increase both payor and patient collections by 19% quarterly.
• Collaborated with senior-level strategy executives to begin developing plans for… Show more
• Collaborated with senior-level strategy executives to begin developing plans for a second physical children's hospital: including capital expenditures, proposed timelines, and land requirements. Show less

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Established 5 and 10-year strategic plans for the department, including a business plan outlining recommendations for a new $10M Hepatology outreach clinic location.
• Facilitated strategic engagement with external marketing agency to rebrand service line to focus on targeting key patient population.
• Conducted volume and patient analysis of 11 Iowa regions to determine location feasibility.
• Forecasted 13% year-over-year growth of new clinic volume over 5 years using predictive… Show more
• Forecasted 13% year-over-year growth of new clinic volume over 5 years using predictive analytics, financial modeling, and market analysis. Show less

Master Of Health Administration (Mha), Healthcare Management & Policy

Activities and Societies: Iowa Student Association of Healthcare Leaders (ISAHL), American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), With Honors, Management, Minor: Economics

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, Dance Marathon, Fellowship of Christian Athletes

Education record