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Catherine Holiday-Beck

Antelope,CA

Summary

Experienced Manager with 17 years of proven leadership in overseeing diverse departments and driving operational excellence. Adept at managing large teams, optimizing financial performance, and enhancing productivity through strategic planning and effective resource allocation. Skilled in conducting comprehensive performance evaluations, fostering employee development, and implementing business strategies that align with organizational goals. Recognized for delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, profitability, and team cohesion. Committed to leading with integrity, cultivating a positive workplace culture, and achieving sustained business success.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manger

Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
10.2023 - Current

OPERATIONS:
• Responsible for maintaining efficiencies and accuracies for all designated employees’ needs related to
daily operations.
• Oversees day-to-day operational issues dealing with patients, physicians and staff, ability to effectively
communicate appropriately with medical staff, community, patients, and other department within the
organization.
• Monitors goals and productivity standards for areas supervised.

  • Implemented strategies to improve team productivity by, optimizing workflows and increasing overall efficiency.
  • Assures the units/areas meets target levels and goals established by the departments.
  • Provides guidance and direct intervention in resolving challenging or complex situations.
  • Develops, implements and/or ensures corrective action plans are implemented to address or minimize
    operational risk.
    • Keeps leadership informed of operations and escalates complex issues requiring higher level intervention.
  • Regularly monitored employee performance, providing feedback and coaching to ensure alignment with company goals and standards.
  • Conducted comprehensive interviews, evaluated candidates, and successfully hired top talent to strengthen the team and support company growth.
  • Managed the sensitive process of employee termination with professionalism and adherence to company policies, ensuring minimal disruption to team dynamics.


STRATEGY/PLANNING:
• Leads departmental goal setting process and provides roadmap for accomplishing goals. Monitors
progress, developing action plans to address issues and challenges.
• Communicates affiliate, operating unit and system goals to staff, helping staff understand impact on
operations and resources.
• Develops plan of action to address current and future resource needs in order to meet service and/or
operational demands and objectives.
• Identifies process improvement opportunities, and initiates action plan to meet short/long term operational
objectives or service level agreements.
• Develops metrics and methods for measuring outcomes against relevant internal and external
benchmarks; assists in the identification of criteria and effective qualitative/quantitative measurement tools.
• Prepares reports and/or analyses, identifying operational trends and recurrent issues, and recommends
and implements course of action.


FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:
• Establishes and manages capital and operational budgets to achieve financial targets via effective
utilization of personnel, resources and supplies.
• Monitors department productivity, ensuring operational challenges are addressed timely.
• Reviews financial reports and develops and implements corrective action plans to address unfavorable
variances.
• Reviews and approves employee expense reimbursements, and billing statements from vendors
according to established protocol.

Supervisor, Patient Access

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento & Sutter Center for Psychiatry
01.2022 - 01.2023
  • Supervision of over60+ employees between two facilities
  • Management of direct daily business operations
  • Executed the organizational plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and intergraded into the team goals, objective and work plan
  • Hired support services such as recruiting, selecting, and orienting employees
  • Perform preparation and monitoring of annual employees’ yearly evaluations
  • Development of direct reports for Medi-cal clients, Meddata Rep, Physician EKG reimbursement, physician clinical data, hospital wide pager billing, assessments, co-pays, physician paneling reports
  • Coordinated working relationships including interdepartmental collaboration with affiliate clinical care areas
  • Promoted rapport building with54 counties to coordinate Medi-cal treatment authorizations
  • Managed in-house reports for physicians and directors of administration
  • Expert SBAR builder
  • Conducted DMOT meeting requirements for new build and for streamlining chart prints for Mental Health
  • Presented to Director of operations to get software approval for my team
  • Working knowledge and understanding of insurance and medical terminology
  • Informed the Rev Cycle team of important information which lead to the build of billing indicators to properly support billing claims
  • Leadership skills and ability to provide constructive and timely feedback to team members to support continuous improvement
  • Ability to handle difficult circumstances and make sound business decisions with little direction
  • Initiated and established effective working partnership with employees, peers and/or leaders to achieve business objectives

Team Lead of Patient Access

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento & Sutter Center for Psychiatry
01.2013 - 01.2022
  • Provide direct supervision of over60 employees on management and direction of the daily activities
  • Ensuring the organizational plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and intergraded into the team goals, objective and work plan
  • Manage support services such as recruiting, selecting, and orienting employees
  • Perform preparation and monitoring of annual employees’ yearly evaluations
  • Development of direct reports for Medi-cal clients, Meddata Rep, Physician EKG reimbursement, physician clinical data, hospital wide pager billing
  • Facilitates county, assessments, documentation and reviews while maintaining confidentiality of information
  • I established working relationships including interdepartmental collaboration with affiliate clinical care areas
  • Promoted rapport building with54 counties to coordinate Medi-cal treatment authorizations
  • Formulated processes to eliminate conflict resolution
  • Processing of current EMTALA and HIPPA documents
  • Process billing for Taxi and pager billing
  • Key Achievements:
  • Implemented new processes for cash collections to meet monthly goal of $174,000
  • Assisted on various hospital wide projects and coordinated implementations
  • Developed DES bored for PAFS department SCP
  • SuperUser Trainer for the Business Services program for the implementation of hospital-wide electronic health records EPIC
  • Provided adequate documentation in support of adding a security guard position to minimize safety concerns for patients and employees
  • Built detailed excel spread sheets to establish the need of county contracts
  • Instrumental in creating two Vidal positions needing to support the opportunity to collect currency and clean claims at point of service
  • Gathered key elements to build job aids for newly created and revamped positions

Interim Manager, Registration

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento & Sutter Center for Psychiatry
03.2019 - 12.2019
  • Supervision of over60+ employees between two facilities
  • Management of direct daily business operations
  • Executed the organizational plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and intergraded into the team goals, objective and work plan
  • Hired support services such as recruiting, selecting, and orienting employees
  • Perform preparation and monitoring of annual employees’ yearly evaluations
  • Development of direct reports for Medi-cal clients, Meddata Rep, Physician EKG reimbursement, physician clinical data, hospital wide pager billing, assessments, co-pays, physician paneling reports
  • Coordinated working relationships including interdepartmental collaboration with affiliate clinical care areas
  • Promoted rapport building with54 counties to coordinate Medi-cal treatment authorizations
  • Managed in-house reports for physicians and directors of administration
  • Expert SBAR builder
  • Conducted DMOT meeting requirements for new build and for streamlining chart prints for Mental Health
  • Presented to Director of operations to get software approval for my team
  • Working knowledge and understanding of insurance and medical terminology

Patient Access Representative

Sutter Center for Psychiatry
01.2008 - 01.2013
  • Knowledge of insurance authorization required to include managed care, Medicare, Medi-cal, commercial payers and behavioral carve out
  • Medical terminology expert
  • Effective verbal and written English skills
  • Utilize all IT applications within the patient access department and other support departments
  • Ability to effectively communicate payer requirements patients and/or patient’s family members
  • Ability to maintain quality standards and proficient performance standards during high activity and/or stressful situations required
  • Provide in depth understanding and guidance to peer team and contribute to improve department service levels as identified
  • Serve actively in the mentor role for new employees and must participate in the peer review process
  • Key Achievements:
  • Super User Trainer for the Business Services program for the implementation of hospital-wide electronic health records

Education

Associate of Applied Science (AAS) with Honors -

American River College
05.2024

High School Diploma - undefined

Grant Union High School
06.2005

Skills

  • Staff Performance & Quality Standards
  • Quality Assurance and Budget Management
  • Employee Competency Measures
  • Leadership Development and Mentoring
  • Workforce Optimization
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Strategic Planning

Certification

  • Certified Healthcare Access Associate (CHAA), January2018
  • NAHAM Certification Commission
  • National Certified Insurance & Coding NCICS, August2014
  • Elk Grove Adult & Community
  • NCI/MAB Certified
  • November2022
  • First Aid/CPR2021-Present
  • Sutter Immersion Senior Leader Cohort
  • May2019
  • Crucial Conversations- November2018

Accomplishments

  • Strategically planned, coordinated and collaborated with the HIM director, key players to present in the DMOT meeting to approve new EPIC build for mental health chart printing. The request was approved for a new psych pertinent packet. This particular build reduced the CFB turnaround time and reduction of productivity hours.
  • Streamlined billing process which included approval from operations director to allow my team access to the billing software Nthrive.
  • Creator of Medi-cal job aids along with SCP TAR standard workflow that was adopted by mental health facilities across the valley regions.
  • Spear Headed new PBX phone system in partnership with contracted IT specialist
  • Completed and conducted yearly reviews
  • SBAR Expert, prepared numerous SBAR in support for streamlined processes
  • Created Key control policy to eliminate ligature risk
  • Created and updated Visitation policy in coordination with COVID-19 protocols
  • Created KDS bulletins to distribute to SMCS Nursing Administration for nursing education
  • Provided adequate documentation in support of adding a security guard position to minimize safety concerns for patients and employees.
  • Built detailed excel spread sheets to establish the need of county contracts.
  • Instrumental in creating two Vidal positions needing to support the opportunity to collect currency and clean claims at point of service.
  • Gathered key elements to build job aids for newly created and revamped positions.

Timeline

Manger

Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
10.2023 - Current

Supervisor, Patient Access

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento & Sutter Center for Psychiatry
01.2022 - 01.2023

Interim Manager, Registration

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento & Sutter Center for Psychiatry
03.2019 - 12.2019

Team Lead of Patient Access

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento & Sutter Center for Psychiatry
01.2013 - 01.2022

Patient Access Representative

Sutter Center for Psychiatry
01.2008 - 01.2013

High School Diploma - undefined

Grant Union High School

Associate of Applied Science (AAS) with Honors -

American River College
Catherine Holiday-Beck