Taryn Oconnell Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara, CA, US

Santa Barbara County, California, United States

Operational and strategic oversight over 13 urgent care centers along with responsibility for developing the Cottage Primary Care platform. We opened two primary care clinics in the last 12 months with plans for a third later this year. In my role I partner with clinical dyads to be responsible for operational performance, quality measures, patient.

Responsible for opening and managing operations of 15 urgent care locations across the Central Coast of California

Santa Barbara, California Area

Santa Barbara, California Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- created an educational presentation designed to teach Somali women of the dangerous of cervical cancer - worked closely with the Executive Director of Isuroon and a local writer to ensure that the presentation was culturally appropriate - presented a rough draft of the product to Isuroon's Community Advisory Board, made up of Somali women of all ages.

Minneapolis

• Advance the mission and endorse the vision of the clinic by: o maintaining an understanding of all happenings related to the clinic o supporting other board members by assisting in projects and connecting them with.
• Leading the clinic strategy team which is made up of the Community Relations, Finance, Education, Human Resources, and Communications Chairs

Minneapolis, MN

• Manage patient information: translate information about each patient from the Epic EMR onto the white board that is used by all of the staff to determine important information about each patient’s health status, care.
• Assign care team: determine and assign which type of providers each patient needs to see, and assign them an advocate and/or translator to be with them for the remainder of the visit.
• Manage patient flow: make sure that each patient is being care for in a timely manner, and address in problems that may be occurring that interfere with the patient flow.

Saint Paul, MN

• Clerkship Project: developed a strategic plan for United Hospital on how to grow a vascular surgery program that identified the appropriate physician panel to allow for emergency call coverage and provide opportunity.
• Assisted the process improvement team with the development and use of tools designed to assess the discharge huddle process being implemented at the time, as well as the hand hygiene initiatives in the hospital

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Problem Solving Field Study Project: assessed the reason for low patient experience scores in the birth center and made recommendations for improvement that included strategies for leadership development, culture work, improvement in care for patients of diverse backgrounds, improvement of coordination of care, and facility updates

Madison, WI

• Topic: Longitudinal behavioral genetics study of twins
• Coded facial expressions: watched videos of “episodes” in which children performed tasks (i.e. unraveling a ball of yarn) to count eye references, facial expressions, disposition, etc., and then wrote them down in.
• Conducted diagnostic telephone interviews: administered interviews to adolescents to learn how many characteristics of an array of different psychological disorders they were presenting with. Also administered.
• Acted as camera-person for in-home visits: video taped different “episodes” in which the children was either performing a given task on their own, or interacting with the Child Tester. The visits were conducted at the.
• Data entry: entered data into a database in the computer that had been coded by myself or another RA.
• Assembled Packets: assembled packets to be mailed to families in preparation for home visits. Packets included questionnaires, instructions, and tubes to collect the children’s saliva in order to determine.

Madison, WI

• Planned lessons: created lesson plans with a co-teaching fellow to help first year introduction to psychology students conceptualize material that had been taught during lecture.
• Created online questions: came up with virtual ways to assist the students in understanding lecture material, and posted weekly questions to help them think about material in different ways. Gave feedback to responses.
• Ran discussion sections: executed lesson plans with students each week, as well as conducting activities aimed at getting the students better acquainted with each other and us. Also, answered any questions relating to.
• Provided a positive mentor: gave the students a peer mentor who could help them adjust to life at a large university. Was available by email at almost all times to answer questions and give advice.

Mha, Health/Health Care Administration/Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Psychology (Certificate: African Studies)