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Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Serve as a board of directors member for Beacon Clinic, a free healthcare clinic. Provide strategic guidance, governance, and support to enhance access to quality care for underserved populations.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

• Collaborate with C-Suite, service line, and operational leaders to develop strategic plans.• Effectively present data-driven strategic insights to audiences of up to 70 individuals.• Utilize external and internal data to monitor the System’s competitive market and the organization’s current state. Train colleagues to utilize resources.• Lead strategic service line initiatives.• Identify ambulatory expansion areas, driving new patient, procedural, and network integrity growth.

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

-Assist hospitals across the country to quantify opportunities for growth in the cardiovascular, neuroscience, and orthopedic service lines. Perform data analyses of internal hospital volume & financial data as well as market data to determine opportunities for growth or re-structuring. Produce multi-year financial pro formas based upon past volume trends, market trends, and reimbursement payments. -Performed an economic analysis of cardiovascular procedures across multiple settings of care (inpatient, hospital outpatient department, ambulatory surgery centers, and office based labs). -Analyze Medicare data (including financial indicators, volume trends, and physician outcomes) at hospitals nationwide. Benchmark hospitals against regional & national standards. Use this data to find opportunities to improve patient care.-Monitor the accreditation of 50+ cardiovascular programs across the nation including: cardiac catheterization labs, chest pain centers, open-heart surgery programs, electrophysiology labs, and peripheral vascular programs.-Performed statistical analyses of: clinical quality data from national registries, operational data, and process metrics. Used data to find opportunities for improvement with hospital leaders. Worked with clients to develop & implement Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs). Continually monitored outcomes data & PIPs for progress.-Presented data findings to hospital executives, state departments, and to the Corazon leadership team.-Oversaw User Group operations for clients, including executing quarterly calls, managing topic discussion, synthesizing data trends, and managing the corporate User Group LinkedIn page. Use this forum as a way for clients to network with one another, ask questions, and discuss "best practices."-Manager for physician case & peer review services.-Continued interaction & coordination with CV service line leaders, Interventional Cardiologists, and Cardiothoracic Surgeons.

State College, Pennsylvania

State College, Pennsylvania Area

As an intern at Juniper Village at Brookline, I assisted the Nursing Home Administrator in her day-to-day work while learning the capabilities necessary to manage a skilled nursing facility. In addition to this, I also: -Created a draft of Juniper's Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement plan, a document mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This comprehensive, data-driven document was made to ensure that quality care was being delivered to the residents. This involved assuring that care was meeting and exceeding standards and then, determining what could be done to further improve outcomes. This project also entailed me assisting in performing a gap analysis to determine what direction Juniper needed to head in to meet quality and performance improvement initiatives.-Contributed to Juniper’s Facility Assessment, a document sent to the Pennsylvania Department of Health which evaluated staff competency, the needs of the resident population, and ensuring that Juniper Village was meeting those needs-Became familiar with federal and state regulations regarding skilled nursing care-Analyzed resident and staff trends to determine the root cause of an infection outbreak-Completed 340 hours rotating through every department; shadowing and assisting other health care professionals including the Business Office Manager, Director of Nursing, and Social Services Department

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Master'S Degree, Healthcare Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Health Policy And Administration

B.S. in Health Policy and Administration from the College of Health and Human Development. Some of the topics that I studied include.