Cole Clark

• Directed managers of rapidly growing team.
• Prepared operational and salary budgets.
• Evaluated business data and reported findings to inform stakeholders.
• Translated business priorities into implementable actions.

• Organize and direct the service and support activities needed to ensure the material needs for the hospital’s incident response
• Coordinate with Operations and Planning sections to determine infrastructure requirements necessary to meet operational needs during an incident
• Participate in Incident Action Plan (IAP) preparation, briefings, and meetings as needed.
• Accomplishments: - Led the Supply Chain response throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. - Operationalized new logistic patterns to accommodate ambulatory product needs. - Initiated the effort to improve visibility into product availability and demand with enhanced analytics and readily available dashboards.

Responsibilities: Planning and directing administration and clinical operations initiatives for the hospital President and other executive leaders. Identify, prioritize, execute and govern strategic and transformational changes and programs, risk assessments, and deploying tactics based on data and quality indicators. Facilitate the planning of region-wide portfolio optimization to strategically align critical operational and innovation initiatives to health system goals and objectives. Oversee Administrative Fellowship program through recruitment, selection and on-boarding and serve as a liaison and mentor for project selection and execution and personal and career development.

Accomplishments:

· Led the implementation of a regional virtual patient observation (VPO) program to reduce falls and safety sitter and security utilization. Realized a cost avoidance of approximately $1M in the first six months.

· Aligned regional Administrative Fellowship programs to create one Atrium Enterprise Fellowship with three different geographic placement options.

· Developed integrated regional strategy map to align and track progress to goals.

Managed the development of mission critical metrics and dashboard to optimize OR utilization and strategic external transfer acceptance.

• Planning and directing administration and clinical operations initiatives for the hospital President and other executive leaders
• Identify, prioritize, execute and govern strategic and transformational changes and programs, risk assessments, and deploying tactics based on data and quality indicators
• Facilitate the planning of region-wide portfolio optimization to strategically align critical operational and innovation initiatives to health system goals and objectives
• Oversee Administrative Fellowship program through recruitment, selection and on-boarding and serve as a liaison and mentor for project selection and execution and personal and career development.
• Accomplishments: - Led the implementation of a regional virtual patient observation (VPO) program to reduce falls and safety sitter and security utilization
• Realized a cost avoidance of approximately $1M in the first six months. - Aligned regional Administrative Fellowship programs to create one Atrium Enterprise Fellowship with three different geographic placement options. - Developed integrated regional strategy map to align and track progress to goals. - Managed the development of mission critical metrics and dashboard to optimize OR utilization and strategic external transfer acceptance.
• Responsibilities: Design, develop and implement focused strategies around standardization, utilization and waste reduction
• Assess product function and cost across the system
• Organize, direct and implement clinical value analysis support for clinical products
• Manage regional product recall program.
• Accomplishments: - Led the integration effort to align with a new regional GPO that led to $16M in cost savings in less than 2 years. - Partnered with nursing leadership on CLABSI and CAUTI initiatives to reduce CLABSIs and patient urinary catheter days through improved evidence-based product selection. - Formalized and standardized the Value Analysis process across the region for new product requests, utilization initiatives, and product conversions.

• Cultivate relationships with community groups, project stakeholders and funding sources to maximize program outreach
• Liaise between pharmacies and community to ensure communication and relations improvement
• Build reports to identify target patient populations for intervention and case management.
• Accomplishments: - Created and managed database to track data, report results and justify funding for statewide electronic prescribing project. - Streamlined response to Preferred Drug List among Medicaid providers through creation and implementation of various forms of communication. - Researched and delivered data for the Medication Reconciliation Program.

• Provide patient care, perform assessments and interventions on a 24-bed Trauma stepdown and a 16-bed Surgical ICU unit
• Assess and monitor mechanically ventilated and medically complex patients, notify physicians of clinical changes as well as prepare and implement individualized patient care plans
• Maintain a safe environment and provide quality and holistic patient care.
• Accomplishments: - Trusted Charge Nurse and proficient preceptor to new hire nurses and nursing students. - Developed a monthly Journal Club to discuss recent research aimed at nursing practice. - President of unit Shared Governance Committee. - Performed a PDSA to identify areas of opportunities based on unit HCAHP scores and to create actionable steps to improve.