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Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Consults and collaborates with rural healthcare stakeholders, including C-Suite executives, director-level staff, and physicians, to implement operational best practices• Efficiently coordinates scheduled dates and rotations for a diverse portfolio of nine providers and ten hospitals spanning six states.• Monitors and optimizes travel processes, working closely with the internal travel team, hospitals, charter flights, commercial flights, car rentals, and hotel accommodations• Develops, administers, and analyzes results from the biannual inReach Hospital Feedback Survey, enhancing partner relations and refining internal processes to elevate service quality• Proactively conducts monthly rounds with physicians and hospitals in the portfolio, ensuring prompt resolution of any issues or concerns• Conducts comprehensive annual program reviews to align with community needs and identify strategic opportunities for expanding existing service lines or introducing new ones

Aurora, Colorado, United States

• Provides virtual and on-site technical assistance and training on a web-based patient survey platform to faculty, staff, and affiliated personnel in the greater Denver metropolitan area.• Assists program stakeholders with new program services, features, or project set up and data collection• Monitors and reports on program-related data compliance and process improvement initiatives• Maintains vendor relations and contracts between platform vendor and the organization• Performs data management (data entry, data cleaning, merging, quality control, data curation) in electronic health record (EHR) and research data management systems• Calculates basic descriptive and inferential statistics and accompanying visualizations for program-related reports

Fort Collins, Colorado

• Assisted clinic for Drs. Vincent Ross (sports medicine), William Biggs (spine), Wes Jackson (foot/ankle), and Satoru Chamberlain (upper extremity), and provided floating coverage for thirty-one doctors • Developed training procedures and assisted in training of new clinical staff as a member of the Onboarding and Training Subcommittee • Periodically performed phlebotomy and EKG services and acted as laboratory coordinator in absence of lab technician • Set-up minor office procedures and performed suture/staple removal for post-surgical patients when necessary• Acted as patient historian, educator, advocate, and liaison in providing relevant information along communication channels• Maintained provider clinic and surgical schedules and coordinated outside facility diagnostic test scheduling

• Developed SNF traveling nurse program• Acted as SNF liaison for nine facilities• Scribed for SNF Nurse Practitioner (NP)• Coordinated transitions of care with medication reconciliations and home-safety evaluations alongside NP• Performed referral initiation, insurance authorizations, and other administrative tasks as needed• Assisted with clinical tasks such as vital signs, phlebotomy, EKG, spirometry, injection administration, CLIA waived and moderate complexity lab testing, specimen preparation, minor office procedures, suture removal, autoclave preparation, and stocking rooms when not performing duties specifically related to SNF program

Fort Collins, Co

• Provided education for wound care and pre- and post-surgical instruction for patients and their caretakers• Performed wound care dressing, orthotic inspections/alterations, phonophoresis and H-wave therapies, injection preparation, and minor surgery assistance • Oversaw routine sterilization of surgical equipment• Operated digital x-ray machine for limited-scope radiology views• Obtained insurance verifications • Conducted administrative tasks such as maintaining provider schedules and answering phones• Conducted medical billing and coding, collections, balancing of financial statements, organization and filing of EOBs, payroll, other assistance to business office manager as needed

• Performed general clerical duties such as answering phones, data entry, filing, checking members in/out of attendance database• Helped implement variety of children’s programs and activities• Mediated for conflict resolution when necessary• Acted as liaison between club and parents• Confirmed and managed vendor services/deliveries• Assisted in the preparation and distribution of nutritional services• Supervised CSU practicum students and volunteers

Master'S Degree, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Population Health Specialization 4.0 GPA

Bachelor'S Degree, Healthcare Administration And Management

Dual Enrollment Bachelors/Masters Program 3.96 GPA

Associates Of Occupational Studies, Medical Assisting

Activities and Societies: Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society (4.0 GPA), Star Student Award, Exceptional Attendance Award