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Areas of Expertise: * Patient Safety Business Case Development tagged to ROI Quality Improvement Team Building & Leadership Accreditation Process (TJC) Staff Development Strategic Planning Process Improvement RCA & FMEA Dialysis CFC/CMS V-tag Regulations Noteworthy Accomplishments: * Retained by St. Alexius Medical Center immediately following their placement on Conditional Accreditation. Directly involved in developing and implementing initiatives to reverse Conditional Accreditation to Full Accreditation Status mid- 2006. - Moved medication reconciliation, at St. Alexius, from a paper process to computerized process. - Provided a cost-benefit analysis in addition to the safety data, to support the implementation of pre-filled pre-labeled normal saline syringes eliminating the antiquated process of staff filling syringes then labeling individually resulting in a cost savings of $30K in inventory reduction alone. - Performed cost benefit analysis to justify retrofitting current hospital beds for $12.00 per rather than spending $15,000 per bed for new beds, netting a 1.8 million savings. - Recruited by Satellite Dialysis as Corporate Clinical Quality Assurance.Manager. - Developed and wrote the training manual for Satellite Dialysis to over hall their QAPI program and training of Regional Directors and Clinic Managers. - Awarded Facility of the year for the Central Region - US Renal Care. - Redesigned the Pediatric Dialysis program at Phoenix Children's Hospital guiding them through a successful CMS recertification survey after a Conditional 2013 survey.
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