CHERI BALDWIN
Summary
Experienced Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist with over 30 years of nursing experience in various healthcare settings, including med/surg, ICU, CCU, Neurology, and ambulatory care. Highly organized and detail-oriented, excels in conducting comprehensive chart reviews to extract valuable data for actionable feedback to healthcare providers. Expertise lies in implementing effective documentation improvement strategies to support revenue integrity and ensure compliance with coding and billing regulations. Strong focus on case mix index, dedicated to optimizing healthcare outcomes while maintaining the highest standards of integrity.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Development Coordinator
Allina Health System
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Trusted advisor to physicians, nurses, and medical staff throughout organization
- Craft, integrate, maintain, and optimize continuous training program
- Timely and responsive resolution to end-user system issues
- Collaborated across organization to standardize and integrate EPIC workflows to drive quality patient care
- Produced and presented all RN and LPN on-boarding training and evaluation
- BLS Instructor
- Identified, assessed, and constructed EPIC workflow targeting the reduction of readmissions
- Reduced readmissions within 30-day window by 80%
- Envisioned, created, and rolled out successful Nicotine Program, over 75% quit rate in 1-year
- Lead EPIC Super-user conducted monthly Super-User meetings and EPIC downtime drills
RN Staff Nurse
Allina Health System
Cambridge/Coon Rapids, Minnesota
01.2015 - 01.2018
- Highly skilled, critical care nurse driving the nursing process in the excellent care of acute patients
- Developed and implemented patient care plans with interdisciplinary healthcare team
- Compassionate, complete communication in sensitive, high-emotion and emergency situations
- Ensure integrity of practice policy, procedure, and safety standards to improve patient and family experience
- EPIC Super-user
- Cultivate relationships with a daily average of 1 – 2 patients and their families and responsive support to all unit patients, nurses, and doctors
- Preceptor to student nurses assigned to unit
- Facilitate doctor's rounds and diagnosis
- Review and interpret doctor's orders
- Serve as charge nurse as needed, leading daily safety huddles, staffing oncoming shifts and driving compassionate, positive atmosphere and communicating fully at shift hand off
- Lead EPIC Super-user for clinical staff and providers, created smart phrases/smart text in providing documentation standards
Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist
R1 RCM-Banner Health
07.2024 - Current
- Followed all company policies and procedures to deliver quality work.
- Retrospect quality reviews in DRG optimization
- Collaborate with Quality and Risk in Medicare PSI risk adjustment by identifying documentation gaps to ensure accurate and complete documentation
- Collaborate with providers to offer education and feedback on documentation improvement.
- Collaborate with medical staff to ensure timely completion of patient documentation
Assistant Nursing Professor
North Dakota State College of Science
Wahpeton, North Dakota
01.2019 - Current
- Plan, develop, and implement targeted curriculum for didactic and clinical PN and RN programs
- Adept presentation of information to diverse levels of ability and knowledge
- Continuously incorporate current industry trends and technology in curriculum
- Advance students' skill and ability in patient care
- Drove Quality Assurance Program and audits
- Simultaneously completing 96 hours of patient care, monthly
- Evaluate 40-students ability to perform patient assessments and outcomes, per semester
- Collaborate with 10 nursing instructors on delivery of 2 didactic and 3 clinical courses, in alignment with QSEN and ACEN standards and regulations
- Designed simulated EMR lab and online learning program, delivering across multiple learning platforms
- Coordinate EMT, Pharmacy Tech, RN and PN interdisciplinary trauma simulation
Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist
Sanford Health
01.2021 - 07.2024
- Provide high level retrospect reviews on Mortality case and well versed in Vizient risk adjusted Index
- Utilize 3M Health information system along with EPIC EHR for all chart reviews
- Identify gaps in clinical documentation and identify query opportunities for documentation improvement on concurrent and retrospect charts
- Provide clinical staff with appropriate documentation criteria and guidelines as questions arise within our team by utilizing coding clinic, ACDIS, Pinson & Tang resources, Bundage Group and scholarly resources articles
- Effectively communicate with providers through query process, physician/leadership meetings, emails, and phone calls as needed
- Reconcile final code assignments with coding to ensure correct DRG assignment and coding accuracy
- Assist in training/mentorship in new CDI staff
- Increased the accuracy of documentation, which led to a yearly increase in the Medicare blended rate
- Continuing education to stay up to date on coding changes by utilizing ACDIS, Pinson and Tang webinars and seminars
- Provide staff education at regional and enterprise level in identified gaps with our CDI team
- Assist with query and smart phrase build within EPIC EHR
RN Clinical Educator
Sanford Health
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Integrated medical science, nursing science, and information science to identify, acquire, preserve, manage, aggregate, analyze and disseminate meaningful clinical data to enhance training and patient outcomes
- Assessed, identified, and employed adult learning techniques to fill gaps in education
- Delivered bi-weekly nursing, monthly Rapid Assessment, and First Five Minutes of a Code training across 50-Mental Health, 38-Eating Disorders, and 300-Regional Ambulatory Care personnel
- Served as Project Manager for Highly Reliable Organization Training
- Hand-selected to ANCC Nurse Planner role
Education
MASTER OF SCIENCE - Nursing Informatics
Liberty University
Lynchburg, VABACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Nursing
Mayville State University
Mayville, NDASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE - Nursing
Bemidji State University
Bemidji, MNASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE - Practical Nursing
Northland Community & Technical College
Thief River Falls, MNSkills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Excel/Word
- OpenEMR
- Epic
- Cerner
- 3M Health Information System
- Meditech
- Optum
- Excel Spreadsheet
- SEERS Predictive Analytics
- Data Mining Using Multiple Techniques/Analyze Data
Certification
- Certified Clinical Documentation Specialist (CCDS)
- Career Technical Education Certificate (CTE)
- Registered Nurse - State of North Dakota compact License #R-46856
- Minnesota State License #R-2280213
Professionalcommunityinvolvement
- Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist (ACDIS)
- American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
- American Nurse Association (ANA)
- The Society for Collegiate Leadership and Achievement (SCLA)
- American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
Timeline
Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist
R1 RCM-Banner Health
07.2024 - Current
Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialist
Sanford Health
01.2021 - 07.2024
Assistant Nursing Professor
North Dakota State College of Science
01.2019 - Current
RN Clinical Educator
Sanford Health
01.2018 - 01.2019
Clinical Development Coordinator
Allina Health System
01.2017 - 01.2018
RN Staff Nurse
Allina Health System
01.2015 - 01.2018
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Nursing
Mayville State University
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE - Nursing
Bemidji State University
ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE - Practical Nursing
Northland Community & Technical College
MASTER OF SCIENCE - Nursing Informatics
Liberty University
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