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Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Drive strategic growth initiatives and solidify Ni2’s position as a leader in healthcare revenue cycle services.• Lead business development strategies aligned with company growth objectives.• Identify and pursue new business opportunities in the healthcare sector, with a focus on: Charge capture optimization for hospitals and health systems | Revenue cycle services for critical access and rural hospitals.• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, expanding market presence.• Collaborate with internal teams to deliver tailored solutions that address: Client IT constraints | Bandwidth issues | Root cause challenges.• Lead contract negotiations and manage the entire sales process from prospecting to closing.• Represent Ni2 at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.• Ensure service delivery is guided by Ni2’s Core Values, achieving the highest level of client satisfaction and success.

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

• Oversee and manage the relationship of 36 critical access hospitals across Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas to connect them to quality, operations, and strategic resources from CHI Health. • Managed over $200k in federal critical access hospital flex funding, oversaw the annual strategic budgeting, partnership development, and distribution of services from federal funds. • Provide direct supervision and operations support for Thayer County Hospital and Pawnee Community Memorial Hospital leadership and hospital boards.• Responsible for the management of federal flex fund programing, CHI Health strategic outreach, and the coordination of 3rd party partnerships that benefit rural health care providers.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

• Responsible for the management and development of key business and strategic relationships with 25 critical access hospitals across central Nebraska. • Developed and administered provider and executive recruitment contracts to provide cost-effective recruitment resources to rural Nebraska and Iowa hospitals. • Created and managed bi-annual state wide conferences for trauma nurse coordinators, critical access hospital financial leaders, and c-suite executives.• Negotiated key business plans and contracts to partner and support independent critical access hospitals specialty provider coverage with local independent physician practices around orthopedics, pulmonology, oncology, and general surgery.

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

• Oversaw the training, implementation, and overall operations of the clinical and non-clinical labor support pool consisting of over 150 employees to meet the needs of COVID-19 volume surges.• Managed COVID-19 screener team of 14 employees and implemented automated kiosk screeners that resulted in a minimum of $250k in savings for St. Elizabeth's Regional Hospital.

Hebron, Nebraska, United States

Held interim position from April 2020 - June 2020 and again from April 2021 - December 2021. • Oversaw the total operations of a 16 bed Critical Access Hospital and six rural health clinics.• Secured and managed applications for the Paycheck Protection Program & all Cares Act funding resulting in an additional $5 million to support ongoing operations during COVID-19 Pandemic. • Oversaw and pursued the eventual successful purchase of a retail pharmacy to improve community relationships and healthcare. • Implemented a $50,000 community masking and education initiative for local businesses, schools, religious centers, and for employees. • Hired, coached, and managed entire new executive team through extreme transition of leadership, pandemic, network alignment. • Successfully recruited two APPs and two family medicine physicians in a period of 10 months.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Conducted a financial analysis of CHI Health’s laboratory services to identify outsourcing and/or internal efficiency opportunities. Resulted in CHI Health laboratories pursuing a $3.4 million savings and improvement plan over FY18.• Oversaw the improvement of a tertiary hospital emergency department for a ten month period that resulted in 7% reduction of patients leaving without being seen (LWBS), a 30% increase to patients discharged under 90 minutes with minor injuries, and 15 minute average reduction to the time it took a patient to see a provider. • Created a governance structure to unify, support, and grow CHI Health’s critical access hospital network that resulted in the re-organization of CHI Health’s rural strategy.

High School Diploma

Associate Of Arts (Aa)

Bachelor Of Arts, Health Sciences

Public Health Certificate

Master Of Health Administration