Information Services Project Manager Ii
Portland, Oregon Area
Unity Center for Behavioral Health Implementation. Legacy Health Systems. Nov 2015 – Feb 2017.• Served as the IS project and interim program manager for the ground breaking implementation of a 102 bed behavioral health hospital with psychiatric emergency service; a partnership between Legacy, OHSU, Kaiser, and Adventist Health• Led workgroup integration between HR, IS, Architecture and Design, Clinical Operations, and Change Management teams to design and implement a new model of care, achieve state licensing, and open a fully operational hospital • Led a team of over one hundred IS employees to gather requirements, build, test, validate, and launch the Epic EHR used to support Unity’s unique care model and patient population• Organized financial reports to monitor, explain, and address budget variances routinely throughout the project• Facilitated collaborative problem solving with stakeholders across four partner organizations and the community at all professional levels to ensure project progress to schedule and careful management of risks• Built credibility and rapport quickly with multiple workgroups across Legacy and partner organizations to promote the seamless and safe transfer of patient information between systems • Facilitation of lessons learned activities to inform future organizational initiatives