Principal, Owner
Lean Management Systems (Lms) Consulting
Greater Seattle Area
Launched independent consulting business to leverage deep experience in leading large-scale initiatives, strategic planning and business analysis to help other healthcare organizations overcome key business challenges. Representative clients are Dignity Health, Kaiser Permanente, The Vancouver Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare, The Everett Clinic (Optum), and Seattle Children’s. Worked with primary care, pediatric behavioral health, women’s health, pediatrics, gastroenterology, cardiology, sports medicine, orthopedics, podiatry, ENT, dermatology, physical therapy clinical service lines.• Led 2-year organization-wide initiative at Dignity Health to develop and deploy new primary care operational model, facility design and patient experience across 3-states sponsored by the CEO of ambulatory care (referred to as “Care of the Future”). Outcomes: 40% increase in team satisfaction, 53% reduction in wait-time for patients during the visit, 50% increase in exam room utilization.• Led 3 major rapid process improvement initiatives at Kaiser Permanente - Santa Clara Medical Center sponsored by the COO and CMO that addressed major cultural challenges in the emergency department and the medical and surgical floors. Outcomes: increased multidisciplinary round compliance from 10% to 90%, reduced ED boarding hours from 124 to 54, and increased the patients admitted in less than 60-minutes from 30% to 49%.• Led 10-month strategic initiative at The Vancouver Clinic to redesign the ambulatory surgery center for a new facility in Salmon Creek, WA. Created innovative neighborhood care team model with integrated sterile processing. Outcomes: reduction of lead-time from arrival to case start from 90-minutes to 45-minutes, 23-minute pre-op prep cycle-time, reduction in time to re-order supplies by 70%, and reduced supply and drug costs by $10 million.