Sandon Saffier Email & Phone Number

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Successful clinical practice with focus on reconstruction of congenital and traumatic deformities• Served as Attending Surgeon, Clinical Instructor in training of General Surgery and Plastic and Reconstructive Residents and Fellows at San Joaquin General Hospital and UC, Davis• President, San Joaquin Medical Society 2000-2001

Marysville Ca

Provide Consultative Care to patients hospitalized extended care facilities

Lawrence, Kansas Area

Work with healthcare organizations in the development of Ongoing and Focused Professional Practice Evaluations (OPPE and FPPE) using WBA 360 tools for Core Competencies. Offer practitioner reintegration consulting as well as mentoring and education

297 licensed beds, Level III Trauma Center, admissions over 17,000 patients, 90,000 emergency and urgent care visits, 2,100 births and over 400 medical staff.Reporting to Medical Center President with responsibility for Clinical Quality, Patient Safety, Infection Prevention, Physician Recruitment, and Organizational leadership of Medical Staff. Oversaw four direct reports/functions and Medical Directors.• Introduced, trained, and implemented patient safety initiatives (including Leadership Rounding, Team STEPPS (teamwork training), root cause analysis, and Sponge Accounting).• Led improvement efforts for Core Measure and reported data resulting in significant improvements• Collaborated with Medical Staff leadership in restructuring Peer Review, Physician Committees, Bylaws and Credentialing• Led successful accreditation survey• Co-authored comprehensive five year house-wide improvement plan, including Leapfrog measurement, gap analysis and improvement steps. Initial deployment and assessment exceeded projections.• Championed and participated in comprehensive Lean Six Sigma initiatives to revamp both physician core procedures and patient flow in 16 room OR. .• Oversaw successful redesign of physician recruiting and onboarding, reducing cycle time from 8-9 months to 3-6, and the recruitment of 7 physicians in 2011.• Guided the restructuring of the clinical quality department to reflect organizational development and Lean Six Sigma tenets resulting in improved employee morale, performance and internal customer service scores per Gallup interdepartmental surveys.• Developed Utilization Management escalation/intervention protocol in conjunction with case managers resulting in case mix index improvement.•Working with the COO and Executive Director of OD, helped shape and deploy a house wide performance management system (Baptist Leadership) and assessment process for clinical and non-clinical positions.

Reported to Chief Medical Officer• Assisted in preparation for accreditation survey• Led setup of Medical Simulation Lab

•Awarded the Donald E. Widmann, MD Award for Outstanding Contributions to Consolidated Accreditation and Licensure Survey (CALS) Program 2005•Conducted the first California Hospital Survey using the “Tracer”Methodology• Member Credentials Committee

Large Community Hospital with 294 licensed beds, annual admissions over 21,000 patients, 45,000 emergency room visits, 2,400 births and over 400 active medical staff. Part of 42 hospital system, Catholic Healthcare WestReported to Hospital President with responsibility for surgical services, care management (utilization management and social work), nurse call center and organizational leadership of Medical Staff. Oversaw three direct report managers and a budget of over 18 million.• Introduced, trained, and implemented hospital and system-wide patient safety initiatives (including process for root cause analysis, teamwork training and disclosure of unanticipated outcomes), promoting a culture of safety and resulting in a significant improvement standardized Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) scores and claims experience.• Collaborated with senior management team and actively provided physician perspective, which enabled financial, clinical quality, and patient safety goals to be consistently met.• Oversaw and developed a program addressing physician engagement, achieving a higher degree of awareness and understanding of the need for better collegial working relationships in hospital setting.• Formulated an aggressive action plan to build a cohesive group and attain a clear focus, resulting in a successful accreditation.• Identified and trained management and medical staff on their key roles and responsibilities, ensuring subsequent accreditation surveys were successful

Stockton, California Area

Medicaid managed care health plan for 60,000 MediCal recipients and third party administrator for San Joaquin County employees. (Formed by San Joaquin General Hospital and Health Care Services to address community needs for MediCal recipients with a managed health care plan)Physician executive for newly formed MediCal (Medicaid) Managed Health Plan. • Served in key positions on operations committee which developed the structure and policies for the creation of Knox-Keene licensed health plan (Health remains successful today)• Led development of utilization management plan and formulary

• Recruited attending physicians and residents. Worked with multiple generations of young physicians developing medical foundations, leading to successful medical practices.

• Led with Quality/Risk Manager successful Consolidated Accreditation & Licensure Survey• Worked with residency program directors to achieve accreditation of Residency programs

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Md, Medicine

Medicine

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology/Biological Sciences, General