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Alachua, Florida, United States

North Carolina, United States

Cary, North Carolina

Administrative Leader of 6 physician OB/Gyn group. Responsibilities include:Human Resource Management: candidate acquisition, hiring, on boarding, training, evaluation, disciplinary action.Operations: Day-to-day implementation of policies and procedures, establishing standards and goal setting, and quality improvement for front and back office.Financial Management: Annual budget, day-to-day activities including AP and payroll, monthly reports and review of production and expense budgets, quarterly reports and physician bonuses, annual reports, and review of CEO.New Services Development: New procedures, new equipment, software installs, new processes. Provider Recruitment: candidate acquisition, Negotiation, On Boarding - non-medical/medical.Marketing: Successfully grew business using direct mail, internet, social media and building word-of-mouth strategies.Risk Management: employee training, contract management, incident reporting and managementFacilities Management: Maintained secure, aesthetically pleasing work environment, with quick repairs as required. Mergers and acquisitions: Worked with attorneys to insure information was prepared and collected for purchase to move forward.Accomplishments:Introduced compact to promote staff cohesion and patient centered service.Re-engineers front desk leading to Improved data collection, increased Credit Cards of File and increased production in Well Care and Mammography.Grew practice from 360 np/quarter to 660 np/quarter through effective marketing.Increased new OB patients from 45 to 75+ patient/month.Introduced mammography program, generating profit from the first month.Achieved level 3 NCQA Patient Centered Specialty Care certification.Introduction of two new physicians, both of whom have full schedules and increasing profits.Opened strategically located satellite office that generates $50K/month in net revenue. Facilitated the acquisition of the medical group for price of 8 x IBITA.

Raliegh, North Carolina

Position started as Executive Director for six physician Family Medicine Group. Responsibilities included:Human Resource Management: candidate acquisition, hiring, on boarding, training, evaluation, disciplinary action.ACO Group Coordinator: Received and transferred training in value-based medicine to Group, obtained consent to participate from covered individuals and transferred data to community record system, facilitate care coordinator access to patient and records.Acquisition and merger of outside practice: Created documents, planned construction changes to facility and managed buildout, moved practice into FMAR, on-boarded staff and providers.Operations: Day-to-day implementation of policies and procedures, Establishing standards and goal setting, quality improvement. Front office, back office, ancillary and revenue cycle management,monthly reports and review of production and expense budgets, quarterly reports, staff and physician bonuses.New Services Development: New equipment, software installs, new processes.Risk Management: employee training, contract management, incident reporting and management. Performance of security risk analysis and preparation of security risk manual and HIPAA manual.Governance: Senior partner retirement and merging physician required reconfiguration and execution of buildout clause.Finance: Negotiated the buy out of retiring physician and buy in of merging physician. Responsible for revenue cycle management of practice.Facilities Management: All doors, phones and computers secure, cleanliness, all utilities and installations in working order, fix or make call to fix when something needs fixingPosition changed to role of Consultant in 2/2019. In that role I oversaw the phase out of onsite billing and outstanding patient accounts receivable collections, performed no-show analysis with remedial recommendations, and replaced with Revenue Cycle Management group.

Los Gatos, California

Administrator for 10 physician OB/Gyn group. Responsibilities included:Operations: Including developing and revising policies and procedures, establishing new services, integrating patients from merger of outside retired physician into our practice, purchasing and replacing internet with high speed connection. Human resource management, including review and recommending changes to staffing, recruitment and hiring, motivation and executing disciplinary action. Financial affairs: including providing monthly and quarterly financial statements to the Board, cost reduction and containment: including rewriting malpractice policy to include deductible, purchasing of VOIP phone system and reviewing and recommending to merge into Stanford Healthcare.Governance: Coordinate Board/Partner business meetings. Prepared agenda and prepared materials, including keeping and preparing minutes from previous meeting, financial statements, operating and financial proposals.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

CEO for a 35-provider, 200 employees, women’s health clinic providing 135,000 visits/year, Position entailed multiple areas of responsibility, including:Start-up: Position started as a well thought out idea among 6 independent practices and 15 physicians. Governance: Reported to a Board of Managers. Established eight committees, including Executive, Finance, Operations, Human Resources, Quality Improvement, Credentialing, Risk Management and Strategic Planning. Strategic Planning: Prepared Agenda, presented factors impacting Group and performed S.W.A.T. analysis, annually. Areas of opportunity identified and strategic initiatives chosen. The CEO was responsible for achieving the initiatives. Operations: Supported 135,000 visits. Using LEAN technology, the organization was committed to reducing the number and time for non-productive interactions. Human resource management: including review and recommending changes to staffing, recruitment and hiring, motivation and executing disciplinary action. Financial Affairs: Financial responsibilities included oversight of all financial affairs, including revenue cycle management activities, accounts payable, payroll, meeting monthly with the accountant to prepare financial reports, and presenting the reports to the Finance Committee. Reviewing budget and metrics, managed care contracts and review of pension performance was routinely discussed.Highlights of Accomplishments: Introduced Electronic Medical Record throughout the organization.Developed Mammography Program.Established 3 room Ambulatory Surgery Center.Added and expanded Lab with CytologyAchieved accreditation by American Accreditation for Ambulatory Health Care.Negotiated and planned the build out of new 72,000 square foot facility.Introduced self-funded health plan that saved the Organization $150,000 per year.Recruited, hired and on-boarded ten MD's and four NP's.After initial merge, later merged two other groups that added five physicians.

Slidell, Louisiana

Set up PHO, including recruitment of 135 physicians and 5 hospitals. All required contracts and full application procedures. Established credentialing procedures for participation acceptable to all major payers. Developed quality and utilization guidelines. Negotiated FFS and full capitation agreements, including 3500 at-risk lives.

Hackensack, New Jersey

Adm Dir for hospital’s Ped Hem/Onc clinic, and Bus Mgr for Hackensack Ped Hem/Onc Group. Responsible for all billing, achieved Ambulatory JCAHO accreditation, facilitated buildout of 20K sq ft clinic rebuild and co-wrote hospital’s Cancer Services Strategic Plan. Became hospital’s Dir of Man Care in 1994. Negotiated agreements for $120M in the services.

Greater San Diego Area

Practice Manager for 8 physician pediatric cardiology group. Developed Hi-Desert Medical Group, a two practice primary care group in Yucca Valley and Twenty-nine Palms, CA.

Arcata, California

Administrator for 6 physician community clinic.

Northridge, California

Taught course in Health Education-110, a lower division entry level class on current topics relevant to college students. Paid position that also fulfilled requirements for teaching credential.

Van Nuys, California

Provided training to Medical Assistants. Hired, on boarded and provided support to fellow instructors.

Sierra Leone

Peace Corps Volunteer Assignment. Teacher at Training School for Public Health Inspectors for the Ministry of Health in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Provided training in epidemiology, parasitology, water science and infection control to public health inspector trainees.

Business Administration And Management, General, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Courses in Accounting, Economics, Marketing and Business Law.

Master'S Degree, Public Health

Master's in Public Health. Primary Care Administration at Isla Vista Medical Clinic in Santa Barbara Thesis,"Persuasive Letters.

Bachelor’S Degree, Wildlife Biology