Nick Wirth Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Physician, nursing, and hospital change management; leading consultations with physicians and hospital leadership; training hospital staff on new clinical communications system; improving HIPAA compliance within hospitals and practices; streamlining communications between clinicians and medical staff while creating solutions to complex workflows; rules based computer programming in multiple computer software programs; improving patient care by eliminating gaps and errors that occur in communication within the hospital and affiliated practices; improving hospital's ROI; integrating with EHR (EPIC, Cerner, Meditech) to provide discharge notifications, pathology results, and patient-centered routing; improving hospital wide throughput, boarding times, decreasing patients leaving AMA, increasing HCAHPS scores, reducing average length of stay, and increasing patient life expectancy after code blue events; working closely with hospital's IS and Telecom departments; implementing solutions to streamline delivery process of pathology results and ED discharge notifications to primary care physicians to improve follow-up care for patients.Standards Committee MemberChange Management Committee MemberCulture Action Committee MemberHospital Projects: - Spectrum Health (Butterworth, Blodgett, Meijer Heart Center, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital)- Advocate Health Care - Clinical Events Project - Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center- Advocate Christ Medical Center- WellStar Cobb Hospital- Kishwaukee Community Hospital- Valley West Community Hospital, - Advocate South Suburban Hospital- Advocate BroMenn Medical Center- Advocate Eureka Hospital

Washington, Dc, Us

Detailed to the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Health; Congressional and Legislative Affairs experience; internal, external, and media communication plans for national issues; prepared the Secretary of VA and Under Secretary for Health for a mental health hearing; prepared, edited, and cleared responses to Congressmen and Senators; interviewed applicants for the Director of Legislative and Congressional Affairs position; prepared and edited responses to OIG, GAO, and IOM reports, along with developing talking points and communication plans in response to their findings; briefed the deputy chief and chief of staff on daily issues; and managed the task list.

Washington, Dc, Us

Reduced 30-Day readmissions for CHF patients by 65% through implementing nurse teach-back and process redesign for inpatient discharge planning; presented project at ACHE Congress; future cost avoidance of 500K per year; decreased fee for service costs; designed new patient education packet for CHF patients; created and implemented new performance measures process in health record for AMI, CHF, and CAP; process redesign for inpatient performance measures with cost savings of 60K per year and 8 hours of time saved per day resulting in Joint Commission Accreditation for CHF and Pneumonia; improved new employee orientation flow and reduced hiring process timeframe; utilization management analysis to determine most effective bed use; set up structure and implemented Lean Six Sigma program throughout the facility; contracted vendor to update conference room equipment; team member in setting up our organization’s strategic plan and facilitated our retreat; successful approval of sole source government contract for the StuderGroup; outreach planning for patient retention and enrollment; interviewed candidates for multiple positions; member of administrative investigation board; prepared medical center director’s budget and all departments under him; presented and led projects at meetings for leadership and department heads; worked with a very diverse culture that included active duty Navy and VA employees that were going through a merger; supervised, managed, and trained staff; oversaw performance measures for inpatient and surgery and insured they were meeting benchmarks for the organization; and team member for Joint Commission Survey where I provided clarity and organizational information to surveyor.

Directly managed a 30 patient caseload and many others indirectly in a 417 bed psychiatric rehab nursing home; worked directly with social workers, RN’s, LPN’s, psychiatrists, and other clinical staff on patient’s treatment plan; recruited new case management staff; performed admission and discharge planning; worked with quality assurance manager on incident investigations; program leader for patient’s care plan; worked with physicians, psychologists, dieticians, nurses, and other staff on patient’s treatment; charting in medical record; lead for individual and group counseling; and was trained in aggression management.

Palos Heights, Illinois, Us

Analyzed budget and identified areas of waste; performed process improvements to increase staff efficiency and process flow in the department; prepared surgical cases; sterilized equipment; worked with OR staff on emergency cases and cases that involved implants; managed sterile supply room and implant tracking; and audited hospital inventory.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Health Administration

Masters, Managed Care

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Pre-Medicine/Biology

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