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Honolulu, Hi, Us

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Responsible for overall development and administration of a comprehensive and integrated risk management and insurance program for the medical centers, outpatient/ambulatory care clinics, and other clinical practice locations of Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH), with over 7,000 employees and 1,500 physicians. ➣ Plans, coordinates, and administers a comprehensive insurance and alternative risk financing program for the system. ➣ Provides financial and operational management of the HPH corporate captive as President of Providers Insurance Corporation (PIC). Oversees the claims function of PIC.➣ Coordinates securing of risk financing from outside reinsurance markets for lines of enterprise risk coverage beyond the scope of PIC.➣ Supervises and coordinates the provision of risk management services at HPH facilities, clinics, and with the HPH Medical Group.➣ Collaborates with corporate and facility leadership, medical staff, Patient Safety/Quality, and other leaders in development of systems and infrastructure with the objective of improving quality, creating a pervasive culture of safety, and minimizing loss to the organization.➣ Facilitates system and facility identification and collection of incident trending indicators in order to improve quality of care, reduce risk to patients and visitors, and prevent potentially compensable events.

Honolulu, Hi

Straub Medical Center is a 159 bed hospital with multiple clinics in 32 medical subspecialties, a part of the Hawaii Pacific Health network of hospitals.Key Achievements★ Worked collaboratively with medical center partners in the development and implementation of appropriate systems and infrastructure that creates a pervasive culture of safety for the benefit of patients, visitors, employees and the medical staff.★ Planned and implemented risk management processes to meet the hospital’s needs and reduce potentially compensable events. Evaluates programs and effects changes as needed to make improvements.★ Evaluated event (incident report) trends to identify potential areas of risk throughout the organization; and collaborated with PSQ and involved areas to improve care and decrease risk.★ Managed sentinel events and leads root cause analysis efforts in collaboration with PSQ and other departments; conducted other investigations of unexpected events and potentially compensable events; reported claims and PCEs in a timely manner.★ Consulted with and advises the organization’s administrative team, medical staff, and/or committees on matters pertaining to risk management, including the development, implementation, and training on risk management policies and procedures.

Mission Viejo And Napa, Ca

*■ QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, Napa, CA – Program Manager, Risk Management (10/2015 –12/2015)■ MISSION MEDICAL CENTER, Mission Viejo, CA - Interim Director, Department of Risk Management (03/2015 –08/2015); Interim Clinical Risk Coordinator, Department of Risk Management (10/2014 to 02/2015)Key Achievements:★ Oversaw risk identification and reduction processes. Performed and directed staff on Critical Event Investigations and Root Cause Analyses, with corrective action plans. Assisted with claims and litigation functions involving the hospital. Managed grievance, patient complaint and privacy processes.★ Restructured risk management departments, including hiring and development of risk management department staff. Conducted general employee and physician risk management education. ★ At Queen of the Valley, managed the response to a significant event involving multiple patient potential exposures due to improper sterilization processes.

San Francisco, California

Coordinated professional liability risk management consulting services for insured healthcare organizations in the Western and Southwestern US. ■ Management of Risk and Patient Safety Consulting Staff■ Risk/Patient Safety Program Development■ Client Training and EducationKey Achievements★ Identified and developed risk consulting initiatives with healthcare organizations to help reduce risk in significant healthcare exposures.★ Created innovative consulting processes such as best practice assessments and insured self-assessment tools, with resources to address findings and reduce risk. ★ Managed field consulting staff including recruitment, hiring, orientation, and performance review. Provided guidance and direct supervision to field staff on a daily basis.★ Introduced innovative modalities of risk management and patient safety education taking advantage of online capabilities. ★ Provided individual consulting services to select healthcare insured accounts, including hospitals, clinics and physician practices.★ Selected risk/patient safety topics and speakers and coordinated both annual live day-long seminars and monthly web-based educational programs.

San Francisco, California

Designed, reviewed, enhanced and monitored risk and performance improvement structures in a variety of healthcare entities, including multi-hospital systems, community and rural medical centers, long-term care organizations, and other miscellaneous healthcare organizations. Key Achievements★ Designed strategies that incorporated measurement of effectiveness of risk management approaches. ★ Developed numerous best practices, risk reduction approaches, risk survey tools and other loss control strategies, incorporating evidence-based patient safety and high reliability concepts. Content areas included high-risk healthcare departments such as obstetrics, emergency medicine, behavioral health, and long-term care.★ Developed and presented over 50 education programs on various risk management topics to healthcare audiences with sizes ranging from small unit presentations to large presentations at state association meetings.

Over 10 intermittent years of staff/charge nursing experience, from nursing assistant to LVN and then RN. Worked at various hospitals while attending college and graduate schools.Included both medical/surgical experience in acute care settings and Psychiatric Emergency, Chemical Dependency, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric populations in behavioral health settings.Facilities at which I worked:■ 1998 - 1999 Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame, California■ 1990 - 1992 St. Mary of the Plains Hospital, Lubbock, Texas■ 1987 - 1988 Shoal Creek Hospital, Austin, Texaas■ 1984 - 1993 Brazos Psychiatric Hospital, Waco, Texas■ 1981 - 1984 Grant-Buie Hospital, Hillsboro, Texas

Shreveport, Louisiana

In-house Counsel and Risk Management Advisor to 187-bed Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana and Primary Counsel and Advisor to 263-bed Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Alexandria, Louisiana. Key Achievements★ Provided risk management and legal advice to top leadership and management of major health care facilities on a wide variety of medical-legal issues.★ Investigated and determined risk reduction strategies based on sentinel events and incidents in collaboration with hospital staff. ★ Performed over 200 investigations and settlements of personal injury and medical malpractice claims for healthcare facilities, negotiating settlements of up to $500,000.00. ★ Coordinated pre-litigation support efforts for healthcare entities in conjunction with local counsel. Represented organizations in over 20 employment discrimination and labor arbitration cases from discovery to appeal.

Doctor Of Jurisprudence, Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity■ Winner, 1992 State Bar of Texas Health Law Writing Competion. Article entitled.

Master Of Arts, Communication

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology

Associate Degree, Nursing