Fadi Hawawini
Kenner,Louisiana
Summary
Accomplished physician director with forward-thinking approach in leadership style. Offers alignment with organizational goals, determination for commitment to excellence, and more than 14 years experience in building and running new service lines. Career experience in strategic planning for collaboration throughout the continuum of care throughout the health system. Results-focused Medical Director specializing in Medicare / medicare advantage medicine. Successful in building robust administrative and healthcare delivery systems and driving clinical quality improvement.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Medical Director
ChenMed Medical Center
10.2022 - Current
- Developed plans to reduce cost for managed care population. Part A, B, and D.
- Developed strategic partnerships for growth and goal alignments.
- Proactive thinker for strategic planning.
- Developed quarterly and yearly objectives, goals and budgets in addition to devising suggestions to decrease spending.
- Conducted care strategy evaluations to identify areas requiring improvement.
- Focused on preventive care and proactive identification in care management of high-risk patients to lower costs.
- Oversaw and developed clinical departments through hiring, training and evaluating staff.
- Drove planning for business development and relationship building with healthcare partners.
- Reviewed material used by medical team as part of Medical Review Board standards.
- Optimized case and clinical management and recommended plans to improve safety and health programs.
- Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care.
- Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to develop comprehensive care plans.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Increased team productivity by implementing streamlined processes and effective communication strategies.
- Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
- Reduced operational costs through comprehensive process improvement initiatives and resource management.
Associate Medical Director
Passages Hospice
05.2017 - 12.2022
- Verified effective, consistent communication between patients, families and medical team.
- Provided individualized patient plan of care in assisted living facilities and in home environment with emphasis on quality of life.
- Provided ongoing counseling to help patients deal with end of life conditions and processes.
- Completed psychosocial evaluations and needs assessments.
Hospitalist Medical Director
Tulane Lakeside Hospital
06.2021 - 11.2022
- Worked as liaison between hospital administration, providers and contracted vendor to assure goals and objectives are met.
- Optimized collaboration with emergency department team to improve throughput for admitted patients.
- Educated and mentored group of employed and PRN providers.
- Improved patient outcomes and delivery of care through improved clinical quality processes.
- Increased number of admitted patients to primary acute service by more than 100% within 6 months period.
Physician
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System
01.2017 - 06.2021
- Focused work on Veterans Geriatrics and Extended Care Service.
- Participated in daily transition of care rounds for patients managed in acute care setting.
- Participated in quality committee meetings.
- Participated in discharge planning meetings.
- Participated in Intra-Disciplinary Team meeting.
Program Chief
Sound Physicians
09.2020 - 05.2021
- Determined staffing plans to achieve program goals and objectives.
- Participated in hiring decisions for new program staff.
- Developed feasible strategy for program growth meeting organizational vision and mission.
- Participated in monthly meeting with administrative team including Chief Medical Officer CMO, Chief Nursing Officer CNO and other senior executives.
- Created and implemented program frameworks, performance and quality standards.
- Teamed up with palliative care service and staffed 2 beds for Inpatient Hospice beds within hospital setting to care for acute terminally ill patients.
Hospitalist
Ochsner Health System
07.2007 - 09.2020
- Coordinated patients' admissions and discharges, working closely with family members and case managers to line up any additional care needs to reduce readmission.
- Avoided reoccurrence of preventable conditions by educating patients on important lifestyle choices.
- Evaluated patients in emergency room to determine admission and discharge plans for patients.
- Arranged for referrals and specialized Consultations for patients optimal care.
- Managed both resident run services as well as on staff run services, triaged and admitted new patients to medical ward, and participated in teaching rounds for medical students, interns and residents.
Medical Director/Hospitalist
Ochsner Extended Care Hospital, LTAC
01.2011 - 05.2017
- Responsible for managing state of the art medical facility to accomplish best care possible while monitoring resources.
- Led committees such as Patient safety/Wound Care/Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and others.
- Managed physician scheduling by activating moonlighting shifts as needed.
- Implemented best practice guidelines, order sets, medication reconciliation by reviewing ordered antibiotics/usage.
- Provided billing/coding/MS DRG’s training to providers that resulted in increased total revenues as compared to previous years for both the facility as well as providers.
- Presented administration with the latest cutting edge information regarding building a post acute consult/command service that resulted in ability to provide best patient care within the continuum of care model.
- Educated physicians and ancillary staffs to enhance their ability to medically manage more complex patients in financially responsible manner.
- Teamed up with Neuroscience department resulting in better care for patients admitted from Neuro-critical care, post stroke units.
- Reviewed material used by medical team as part of Medical Review Board standards.
- Developed quarterly and yearly objectives, goals and budgets .
- Created effective marketing plans to attract new patients to practice.
- Represented staff at meetings and on designated committees relative to areas of specialty or service.
Medical Director/Hospitalist
Ochsner Skilled Nursing Facility, SNF
07.2008 - 12.2015
- Increased utilized bed capacity by more than 3 times the number of staffed bed prior to 2008.
- Optimized clinical management with recommended plans to improve safety and health programs.
- Trained staff regarding data acquisition and escalation protocol.
- Implemented standardized medical protocols for use by skilled nursing facility (SNF) staff.
- Moved from the model of admitting patients only on weekdays (Monday through Friday) to seven days per week admission and partnering with particular services (such as orthopedics joint replacement) to absorb their post operative patients within the unit resulted in increased patient volume by 75-90%, increased revenues, and reduced unnecessary laboratory work for patients.
- Increased the work force and hiring two advanced practice clinicians (APCs) to help with the increased demands of the new seven workday model for the SNF, which resulted in decreasing the average length of stay by more than 45% compared to pre-2008.
- Assigned APCs for patients’ continuity care management by conducting meetings with family members as needed, and involving physicians with acute and outpatient processes, which resulted in improved patient satisfactions.
- Reviewed unit procedures and protocols for infectious disease control as per the long term Care Regulatory Protocols that resulted in reducing nosocomial infection and providing a more comprehensive care plan for patients.
- Implemented LEAN projects to streamline patients throughout the spectrum of acute care to post acute care service, which resulted decreasing LOS on acute service and the ability to provide a more predictable discharge plan for patients within the system.
Associate Medical Director/Hospitalist
Canon Hospice
04.2015 - 10.2015
- Performed daily rounds on patients in in-patient hospice unit.
- Carried out initial admission orders managements.
- Backed up for nurses and hospice team for home hospice patients to address acute health matters, medications adjustments such as pain managements, and clinical inputs for laboratory results if needed.
Education
Chief Medical Officer- CMO Academy Certificate. - Medical Mangement.
American Association For Physician Leadership
Tampa10-2025
Palliative Care Education and Practice -
Harvard School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts05.2021
MBA - Medical Management Concentration
Isenberg School of Management University of Mass
Amherst, MA05.2018
Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, Louisiana06.2007
Rotating Internship -
St. Vincent Midtown Hospital
New York, NY06.2004
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine - Osteopathic Medicine
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Old Westbury, NY06.2003
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Marymount Manhattan College
New York, NY06.1999
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Recruiting and interviewing
- Budgeting
- Employee scheduling
- Team Leadership
- Decision Making
- Goal Setting
- Assignment Delegation
- Managing practice operations
- Staff education and training
- Emergency Readiness
- Patient Management
- Patient treatment planning
- Follow-up care
- Direct Patient Care
- Health administration
- Staff collaboration
- Patient safety
- Internal medicine
- Chart review
- EMR/EHR- Epic, Meditech, Cerner
- Time Management
- Policy and Program Development
- Process Implementation
- Service Utilization Improvements
- Utilization Management
- Performance Monitoring
- Quality Assurance Controls
- Rehabilitation Programs
- Medical Programs Implementation
- Hospice and palliative care implementation
- Family and patients counseling
- Intra-disciplinary team meetings set up
- Clinical leadership
- Clinical quality improvement
- Case management
- Business growth
- Business strategy
- Relationship building
- Managed Care Understanding
- Managed care principles
- Care delivery oversight
- Inpatient care management
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of providers and nurses in the development of Safety protocols for patients to decrease the numbers of falls with injury by half in 6 months, and then down to zero within a year time frame.
- Implemented best practices to achieve zero total infections with CLABSI and CAUTI on the skilled nursing facility for over 12 months period.
- Improved medication reconciliation on discharged patients from 79% to 100% by implementing provider/clinical pharmacist workflow in discharge planning within IDT meetings.
- Participated in LEAN project to address the throughput and workflow between acute hospitalization and post acute placement.
Affiliations
- Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP), Harvard School of Medicine. Certification 5/2021.
- Board certified American Board of Internal Medicine -ABIM- valid through 2027. Participating in MOC.
- Certified Physician Executive- CPE. August 2019.
- MBA in Medical Management Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts. Amherst. May, 2018.
- Certified Medical Director (CMD), American Board of Post-acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Inc (ABPLM). 2011-17, recertified 2017-2023.
- Health IT Leadership Certificate, American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL/ACPE) 2015
- -Board Eligible American Board of Administrative Medicine.
- -Board Eligible American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians- (ABQAURP).
- American Board of Obesity Medicine- Diplomat 2024-2035.
- Chief Medical Officer- CMO Academy- candidate- class of 2024-2025.
Additional Information
- English
- Arabic
- French
Timeline
Regional Medical Director
ChenMed Medical Center
10.2022 - Current
Hospitalist Medical Director
Tulane Lakeside Hospital
06.2021 - 11.2022
Program Chief
Sound Physicians
09.2020 - 05.2021
Associate Medical Director
Passages Hospice
05.2017 - 12.2022
Physician
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System
01.2017 - 06.2021
Associate Medical Director/Hospitalist
Canon Hospice
04.2015 - 10.2015
Medical Director/Hospitalist
Ochsner Extended Care Hospital, LTAC
01.2011 - 05.2017
Medical Director/Hospitalist
Ochsner Skilled Nursing Facility, SNF
07.2008 - 12.2015
Hospitalist
Ochsner Health System
07.2007 - 09.2020
Chief Medical Officer- CMO Academy Certificate. - Medical Mangement.
American Association For Physician Leadership
Palliative Care Education and Practice -
Harvard School of Medicine
MBA - Medical Management Concentration
Isenberg School of Management University of Mass
Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Rotating Internship -
St. Vincent Midtown Hospital
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine - Osteopathic Medicine
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Marymount Manhattan College
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