Julie Corona

● Development and implementation strategies partnering with surrounding hospitals, physicians, hospice, home health agencies, rehab facilities, skilled nursing facilities and EMS increasing HH referrals

in the pre/post acute care settings.

● Developed policies and procedures for our iCare Mobile Team of Physicians, PA’s, Nurses, and Paramedics to follow protocols that are in line with state laws and regulations to ensure safe home care plans and discharges.

● Developed policy, protocols and procedures with our at home care patients that need extra acute care procedures outside of what we as a company do not provide for our home patients. These protocols were set in place to ensure the best possible care for patients to keep them out of the hospital for 30 days if patients were post discharged to our services.

● Development of Best Practices and Ethics Policy for our company.

● Oversee and manage all new patient referrals to ensure the best patient outcomes for the patients and referral sources, while utilizing our partners should the patient's needs decline.

● Founded the Organization after the death of my father Gary Cogswell on Christmas Eve due to complications with his Double Lung Transplant.

● Our foundation helps children and adults with medical transplant needs.

● Our organization has paired with multiple organizations, as well as with city mayor’s, Coral Springs Fire Department, Margate Fire Department, Northwest Medical Center and FAU to change the lives of individuals to help in their time of need with their medical and terminal illnesses by fundraising dollars and educating the community on our mission to help those in need.

● Represent Encompass in activities involving professional relationships with physicians, hospitals, public health agencies, nurses’ associations, state and county medical societies to apprise them of the availability of services.

● Implement programs and protocols that provide improved home health care and hospice services.

● Serve as a public awareness representative for Encompass

● Responsible for public education relative to home health care and hospice services available through the agency and methodologies for obtaining such services.

● Responsible for meeting and/or exceeding referral and admission goals as set by the Division Manager.

● Implemented for our Broward Florida market to accelerate our EMS educational/sales efforts in the Fire and Emergency Medical Service market.

● This position allowed us to leverage our unique business model and represent an exceptional opportunity to have an immediate impact on the growth and direction of our EMS division, as well as the opportunity for significant financial upside.

● Instrumental in allowing us the opportunity to play a key role in the growth of our new key partnerships with EMS, Emergency Services, and Medical Directors throughout Broward County.

● Implementation via our Public Safety initiative aids the Fire/ EMS professionals to be more effective, to better serve their communities, and offer new solutions to patients and families that over utilize 911.

● The Fire/EMS Admissions/Sales and Marketing Department within VITAS Healthcare offers their support on providing solutions for Fire/ EMS professionals to contract with other agencies and help patients in their community.

● Through providing education (I created educational tools/presentations) to all EMS personnel on what makes a patient appropriate for hospice care, we ensure the best outcome for patients and families that we both mutually serve. Met with case managers across broward county, as well as CEO’s, CFO’s and CNO’s to ensure the program outcomes.

● Helped to support the development of appropriate referrals by creating and sustaining educational and consultative relationships with referral sources in assigned accounts.

● Presented VITAS services and philosophy to patients and families in a manner that resulted in the admission of appropriate patients who choose hospice services in the hospital setting.

● Maintained / created new relationships with social workers, case managers, and C-Level personnel.

● Implemented a new role while in my current position, which created a partnership with multiple Fire Rescue Departments throughout Broward County.

● Created and developed a partnership with the largest Fire Union in Broward County.

● Developed a Clinical/ Marketing strategy that initiated new referrals and partnerships within each city of Broward County