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Dorothy Lockhart

Lexington,KY

Summary

Professional leader with executive experience ready to drive impactful change. Proven ability to implement strategic initiatives and enhance operational performance. Valued for collaborative team leadership and adaptability to evolving business needs.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Market Vice President

CommonSpirit Health
07.2020 - 07.2025


  • Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.
  • Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
  • Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent teams.
  • Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
  • Negotiated high-value contracts that maximized profitability while mitigating risks for the organization.
  • Managed financial planning and budgeting processes, ensuring fiscal responsibility and maximizing return on investments.
  • Developed new revenue streams by identifying growth opportunities and forging strategic partnerships with key industry players.
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
  • Leveraged technology to automate workflows and streamline processes, resulting in increased productivity and cost savings across the organization.
  • Enhanced company profitability by implementing strategic business plans and optimizing operational processes.
  • Built high-performance teams through effective recruitment practices focused on competency alignment coupled with ongoing performance management processes.
  • Managed financial, operational and human resources to optimize business performance.
  • Analyzed industry trends and tracked competitor activities to inform decision making.
  • Created succession plans to provide continuity of operations during leadership transitions.
  • Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.

Market Director, Clinically Integrated Network-Population Health

CHI Saint Joseph Health Partners (Formerly KentuckyOne Health Partners)
04.2015 - 06.2020
  • Oversee, develop, and implement clinical and business development operations in CommonSpirit Health Kentucky Market. Lead the strategic planning, strategy, organizational development, and operations of the care management program
  • Built a team of engaged clinicians as demonstrated in exceeding engagement scores on employee surveys and being named Best Places to Work in Kentucky four years in a row 2022-2025.
  • Lead the recruitment, selection, development, and retention of the care management team
  • Serves as primary contact and liaison between Health Partners, community partners, payors, and providers
  • Partner with the Kentucky Hospital Association to create a Community Coalition of engaged post-acute providers and stakeholders
  • Successfully led and implemented Medicare Innovation programs including MSSP, Next Generation, BPCI, and BPCI-A across multiple locations
  • Interim Vice President-Clinically Integrated Network November 2019-July 2020


Director, Cardio-Thoracic Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
06.2011 - 04.2015
  • Oriented, trained, developed, and managed transplant/MCS personnel and devices and executed plans for professional and clinical development
  • Developed, revised, and reviewed protocols, policies, and procedures, altering as needed following current best practice
  • Led monthly Quality Improvement and Patient Review meetings for both MCS and transplant
  • Responsible for the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the transplant/MCS Service line; established and implemented clinical coverage requirements, task assignments, and allocation of clinical personnel to ensure compliance with departmental commitments and quality standards
  • Managed the service lines day to day clinical, operational, and financial functions
  • Ensured program guidelines and reporting met accreditation agency rules and regulations, hospital/departmental policies and procedures
  • Created the annual budget for Transplant/MCS managed and controlled the resources within the budget
  • Continuously monitored, managed, and improved patient, employee, and physician satisfaction
  • Administrative representative for INTERMACS, ELSO and UNOS
  • Ensured continuous readiness for Joint Commission, OIG, CMS, and UNOS surveys
  • Ongoing collaboration with managed care, contracting, marketing, and finance
  • Partnered with regional providers and affiliate institutions to provide expanded transplant services
  • Represented transplant/MCS to partners within and outside of the University of Kentucky

Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator

Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
01.2010 - 06.2011
  • Served as Clinical Program Coordinator in outpatient post-operative heart transplant program with over one thousand patients
  • Initiated and implemented the transfer of over 600 patients to a new transplant program
  • Oversaw the development of new inpatient and outpatient transplant services
  • Developed and implemented protocols in the heart transplant program
  • Developed, refined, and implemented a new post-operative heart transplant clinic
  • Developed and implemented a Nursing Clinical Research Committee for the Heart Transplant Program
  • Provided patient and family teaching of post-transplant care
  • Coordinated donor organ procurement and recipient admission and transplant surgery
  • Provided on-call care for patient and donor calls on nights and weekends
  • Collaborated with an organ procurement agency in the management of organ donor
  • Provided continuing education in heart transplant to house-wide nursing and ancillary staff

Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator

University of California, Los Angeles, CA
07.2006 - 12.2009
  • Provided clinical case management of the transplant recipients involving all phases of the transplant process, from initial referral through patient follow-up
  • Coordinated interdisciplinary medical care delivery system under the direction of the Medical Director; liaison functions with patient, family, medical staff, referring physicians, and insurance companies
  • Individualized patient and family teaching; assessment of appropriate medical intervention for effective use of resources and quality assurance
  • Received organ donor offers from organ procurement agencies and coordinating all team members in the event of a transplant

Senior Transplant Case Manager

PacifiCare/United Health Group, Cypress, CA
12.2005 - 07.2006
  • Provided Case Management to the transplant population
  • Clinical review and authorization for transplant evaluations and mechanical assist devices

Personal Nurse Navigator

Humana, Inc. Cincinnati, OH
01.2004 - 12.2005
  • Case management for Humana members with chronic medical conditions
  • Applying motivational interviewing techniques

Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
08.2001 - 01.2004
  • Coordination of heart and lung transplant patient care from initial evaluation until post-transplant
  • Clinical outreach to patients in rural Kentucky and West Virginia in need of heart and lung transplants
  • Establishment of a telemedicine program that provided clinical expertise to patients unable to travel to Lexington, Kentucky for follow-up after receiving ventricular assist devices
  • Educational seminars provided to staffing at the University of Kentucky regarding patient management for post-heart transplant and VAD patients
  • Educational seminars provided to rural hospitals' emergency room staff, emergency medical technicians, and the community in managing patients with mechanical circulatory devices

Medical Review Specialist

National Health Services, Louisville, KY
08.2000 - 08.2001
  • Reviewed all Kentucky Medicaid inpatients at the University of Kentucky for medical necessity, severity of illness, and intensity of service
  • Pre-certified Ohio Medicaid recipients for surgery using ABN and ICD-9 coding

Weekend House Supervisor

EPI Corporation, Louisville, KY
06.1997 - 12.2000
  • Responsible for supervising over 30 licensed and unlicensed staff members

Community Health Nurse Specialist

Jefferson County Health Department, Louisville, KY
01.1998 - 08.2000
  • Managed 75-100 cases per month providing home health nursing care
  • Conducted psychosocial and physical assessments
  • Provided community resources to patients in need

Education

Master’s of Science - Nursing

Indiana Wesleyan
09.2017

Master’s in Business Administration - undefined

Indiana Wesleyan
09.2017

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Bellarmine University
05.1997

Skills

  • Accountable Care Organizations
  • Value-Based Care Models
  • Population Health
  • Team leadership
  • Relationship building
  • Decision-making
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Complex Problem-solving
  • Strategic planning
  • Business development
  • Results-driven
  • Risk management

Affiliations

  • America’s Physician Groups-Formerly CAPG 2015-current
  • NAACOs-2015-current
  • Kentucky Hospital Association-2021-current
  • AST-American Society of Transplantation- 2013-2016
  • ITNS-International Transplant Nurses Society-2012-2014
  • ISHLT-International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation-2010-2016
  • NATCO-North American Transplant Coordinators Organization-2009
  • Sigma Theta Tau International-2016-2017

Certification

  • Registered Nurse
  • RN #1086729, State of Kentucky, Expires 2025-10-31

Timeline

Market Vice President

CommonSpirit Health
07.2020 - 07.2025

Market Director, Clinically Integrated Network-Population Health

CHI Saint Joseph Health Partners (Formerly KentuckyOne Health Partners)
04.2015 - 06.2020

Director, Cardio-Thoracic Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
06.2011 - 04.2015

Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator

Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
01.2010 - 06.2011

Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator

University of California, Los Angeles, CA
07.2006 - 12.2009

Senior Transplant Case Manager

PacifiCare/United Health Group, Cypress, CA
12.2005 - 07.2006

Personal Nurse Navigator

Humana, Inc. Cincinnati, OH
01.2004 - 12.2005

Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
08.2001 - 01.2004

Medical Review Specialist

National Health Services, Louisville, KY
08.2000 - 08.2001

Community Health Nurse Specialist

Jefferson County Health Department, Louisville, KY
01.1998 - 08.2000

Weekend House Supervisor

EPI Corporation, Louisville, KY
06.1997 - 12.2000

Master’s in Business Administration - undefined

Indiana Wesleyan

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Bellarmine University

Master’s of Science - Nursing

Indiana Wesleyan

Publications

  • Lockhart D, Kittleson M, Velleca A, Patel J, Kobashigawa J: Homeless Donors and Heart Transplantation Outcomes: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Volume 30: 355-356, 2011.
  • Lockhart, D. Evolving Technology-A Single Center Perspective: ISHLT LINKS Newsletter. Volume 5, Issue 5. September 2013.

Speaking Engagements

  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health through a Clinically Integrated Network of Transitions of Care Program ACMA Kentucky-Tennessee Chapter Virtual Conference-September, 2021.
  • Innovative Solutions for Employers Presentation KYSHRM Annual Conference Louisville, KY-August, 2018.
  • Understanding Value-Based Care Presentation Central Kentucky Association of Health Underwriters Lexington, KY-May, 2018.
  • Bundled Payment Care Initiatives Presentation Howard L. Bost Memorial Health Policy Forum Meeting Lexington, KY-September 2017.
  • Excellence in Patient and Family Focus of the Extracorporeal Life Support Patient Poster Presentation ELSO-25th Anniversary Conference Ann Arbor, MI-September 2014.
  • Ambulatory ECMO-Oral Presentation ASAIO-American Society of Artificial Internal Organs Washington, DC- June 2014.
  • States Collaboration to Increase Organ Donor Registration-Poster Presentation UNOS Transplant Management Forum Baltimore, MD- April 2014.
  • The Life of the Octogenarian Heart Transplant Patient-Oral Presentation Cedars Sinai Nursing Research Day Los Angeles, CA- May, 2011.
  • The Life of the Octogenarian Heart Transplant Patient-Oral Presentation ISHLT-International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation San Diego, CA – April, 2011.
  • Are Recipients from Heart Donors Listed as Homeless at Increased Risk for Poor Outcome after Heart Transplantation? ISHLT-Plenary Session Chicago, IL-April, 2010.
  • Techniques in Educating the Challenging Transplant Patient NATCO-North American Transplant Coordinators Organization New York, NY-August, 2009.

COMMITTEES/BOARDS

  • NAACOS Executive Affinity Group-August 2022-present
  • VNA Health at Home Board Member-January 2022-July 2025
  • Downtown Lexington Partnership Board Member-January 2022-July 2025
  • CHI Saint Joseph Health System-Corporate Responsibility Oversight Committee-November 2019-July 2025
  • Kentucky Trust for Life Board Member, July 2014-2022
  • Statewide Fund Committee-2018-present
  • Donate Life America-State Team Support Committee, October 2014
  • ISHLT Mentor to Junior Faculty, 2014
  • ISHLT Communications Task Force, January 2013-2015
  • University of Kentucky Donor Memorial Committee, April 2012-2015
  • University of Kentucky/KODA Organ Donation/Transplantation Council, July 2011-2015
  • AST Transplant Administrators Community of Practice, July 2011-2015
  • ISHLT Grants and Awards Task Force, January 2011-2015
  • ISHLT Nursing Health Sciences and Allied Health Council Leadership, April 2010-2015
  • Cedars Sinai, Heart Transplant Executive Committee, January 2010-June 2011
  • Cedars Sinai, Heart Transplant Operations Committee, January 2010-June 2011
  • Cedars Sinai, Outpatient Unit Practice Council, January 2010-June 2011
  • Cedars Sinai, Professional Development Task Force Co-Chair, January 2010-June 2011
Dorothy Lockhart