CATHERINE CHEONG-MARANON
McKinney,TX
Summary
Experience Renal Transplant Coordinator, with strong organizational skill, detail oriented, dependable at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willing to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Skilled at patient relations, electronic charting and assessments. Well-trained and motivated to exceed expectations. Proven to bring results and work in fast-paced environments. Offers top-notch knowledge, abilities and education to transplant candidates. Works great in team-based environments to optimize patient care and outcomes.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
RENAL WAITLIST TRANSPLANT COORDINATOR
J.C. Walter Transplant Center at Houston Methodist Hospital
2015.01 - 2023.10
- Perform chart review, assessing the need for candidate re-evaluation, and initiating when appropriate
- Identify potential problems, abnormal diagnostic findings, and/or significant changes post clinic visits and coordinate required care and referrals
- Collects and evaluates medical, psychosocial, and financial data for review and formulates Medical Review Board packet for patient needing representation to the Review Committee for evaluation of risk vs benefit prior to proceeding with transplantation
- Coordinate with interprofessional team the transplant evaluation update process for candidates in the waiting list including, but not limited to Medical/Surgical evaluation, Psychosocial evaluation, educational assessment, laboratory evaluation including serologies, tissue typing, and antibodies per protocol, radiological evaluation, and nutritional evaluation
- Establish educational goals with patient and family/caregivers ensuring they understands their responsibility in proactive management in their health care while in the waitlist and provides education and appropriate resources regarding living donor options, Organ Procurement, Transplantation Network/United Network of Organ Sharing (OPTN/UNOS) and Kidney allocation system
- Present waitlist class education to patient/family/caregiver post listing regarding 'Waiting' Process, Risk/benefits, benefits of living donor vs deceased donor, the utilization of expanded donors, high-risk donors, if applicable
- Participate in outreach promotion of living donation education
- Educate patients on the importance of PRA kits for antibody screen and that these are sent / obtained regularly per transplant center protocol and importance of maintaining routine health maintenance and surveillance for malignancy during the waiting period
- Formulate recipient patient summary for Immunology Review Board discussion with living donor matching
- Coordinate desensitization treatment per protocol for highly sensitized recipients
- Collaborate with research team in scheduling patients for clinic evaluation
- Offers innovative solutions through participation in performance improvement projects
- Contributes to department initiatives for quality and process improvement
- Participates in transplant-specific continuous learning and growth
- Applies evidence-based practice to daily work, i.e., attending CMPI, reviewing professional literature and attending professional meetings and sharing with colleagues
- Identifies own learning needs and actively seeks educational opportunities, both formal and informal, to meet those needs
- Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management
- Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an on-going basis.
FACILITY ADMINISTRATOR / PRECEPTOR/ KIDNEY SMART EDUCATOR
2008.01 - 2015.01
- Provide and oversee patient care - Ensures that teammates impact patients' lives and deliver optimal clinical care demonstrated through clinical outcomes and decrease morbidity or mortality
- Caring for these patients is a privilege not a right
- Ensure compliance with ESRD/ CMS / TDHS through completion of Quality Assurance meeting and reporting with medical directors
- Managed facility was awarded with the 5 Star CMS rating for 2014, as well as had a zero-deficiency survey on its initial certification with TDHS in August of 2014
- Facilities I had managed have been leading in the response rate during CAHPS survey with positive approval rating, year after year
- Support facility patient and team participation with ESRD Network PE LAN programs
- Support and promoted first ever company core team clinical rounds
- Which was later set as part of facility practice to provide consistency and continuity in patient care by the interdisciplinary team
- Promote an environment in line with DaVita's mission of being the provider, employer and partner of choice through honest communication with patients, teammates and physicians
- Promote and develop a cohesive team - to guide and lead a team of 15-20 teammates to work towards a common mission and vision in providing patient care
- My two facilities had the following rate of retention: a.) Pin Oak - 80% since 2009 and b.) Horizon - 70%
- I have recognized and recommended my teammates for promotions
- Two have moved to be divisional leads in their respective positions
- Another has been promoted to facility administrator and one as divisional kidney smart coordinator
- Facility Administrator Preceptor - Responsible in training, guiding / mentoring newly hired facility administrator on facility management
- Kidney Smart Educator - Certified Kidney Smart educator
- Providing chronic kidney disease education twice a month to the community for the purpose of prolonging normal kidney function
- Co-developer of a patient orientation program (POP) that provides a positive patient experience for newly diagnosed ESRD patients
- Program was developed to provide the best patient care experience for what is often construed as a stressful and anxious time, first day of dialysis
- Proactive with supporting ESRD Patients for state supported programs
- Through active participation of the Kidney Capitol Day
- Inviting and hosting government representatives, John Zerwas and Pete Olson to our facility to put faces to the voice of our patients
- Financial Management - Driving bottom line results
- Ensuring the complete operation and performance of the facility
- To maintain operating sustainability
- My current facility has net revenue of 132.2% variance from budget
- Denovo Clinic - Responsible in initially setting up new DaVita facility, from the facility physical set, up until it starts the first treatment at the designated deadline
- Certified with zero deficiency from state surveyor and opened by deadline.
Education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING - Nursing
ATENEO DE ZAMBOANGA UNIVERSITY, PHILIPPINES
Skills
- Regulatory Compliance
- HIPAA Compliance
- Documentation and Reporting
- Patient Assessment
- Interpersonal Communication
- Team Collaboration
- Decision-Making
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with transplant team in the implementing desensitization programs for highly sensitized kidney transplant candidate.
- Collaborated with the living donor team in the coordination of the successful second largest kidney swap (to be held at one institution, JC Walter Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital) in Texas, August 2016.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop efficient patient waitlist evaluation tracking spreadsheets.
Affiliations
- International Transplant Nurses Society
- North American Transplant Coordinator Organization
References
UPON REQUEST
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tagalog
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Elementary
Timeline
RENAL WAITLIST TRANSPLANT COORDINATOR
J.C. Walter Transplant Center at Houston Methodist Hospital
2015.01 - 2023.10
FACILITY ADMINISTRATOR / PRECEPTOR/ KIDNEY SMART EDUCATOR
2008.01 - 2015.01
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING - Nursing
ATENEO DE ZAMBOANGA UNIVERSITY, PHILIPPINES
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