Description
I continually assess the culture of service, employee engagement, quality, patient safety, service excellence, fiscal responsibility, and the overall patient experience in all ambulatory care service areas for improvement opportunities. I provide leadership in the day-to-day operations in outpatient surgery, operating rooms, post-surgical, cardiology, cardiac cath. lab, interventional radiology, and gastroenterology/endoscopy and specialty care clinics for the total operations within the service line, with a focus on continuous improvement. In collaboration with administration, management and physician leaders, I am responsible to ensure that the provision of patient care is delivered in a safe, efficient, consistent, and high-quality environment.• Experienced Director of Surgical Services and Hospital Administrator. Administrative oversight of: operating suites, PACU, Pre-Op, Sterile Processing, Laboratory, and Respiratory Therapy, Interventional Radiology, Cardiac Cath Lab, GI Lab, Ambulatory Surgery Center, Senior Clinic, Surgery Scheduling, Business office and Rehab. Experience as Bariatric Coordinator, managing Human Resources and House Supervisory staff. Director/Administrator over in-patient and ambulatory surgical services. Maintains ability to scrub and circulate, seeing this as an opportunity to maintain a staffing perspective in direct surgical care that contributes to her leadership ability. And, enjoys the intensity and activity of being inside of the surgical suite.