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Kenneth Chege

Kenneth Chege

Clinician
Lowell,Massachusetts

Summary

Problem-solving Clinical Director qualified to manage health regulations, perform patient care and further motivate talented staff. Enthusiastic professional with background affecting positive patient outcomes, finding creative solutions to administrative issues and interacting with diverse personalities.Results-driven Clinical Supervisor successful in creating innovative educational programs. Works with nurse leaders and healthcare staff to improve patient care and outcomes. Focused on developing strong teams while serving as positive role model.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director of Clinical Services

OAKLAND HOSPITAL
01.2022 - 03.2025
  • Overseeing Hospital operations and staff duties
  • Interacted effectively with clinical staff and patients by using active listening and interpersonal skills.
  • Keeping medical professionals updated about healthcare administered at the Hospital.
  • Managing the Hospital budget, billing system, and inventory.
  • Overseeing the purchasing, maintenance, and repair of Hospital equipments.
  • Provide ongoing case management to patients to implement appropriate treatment plan, adhere to quality models and maximize utilization of services needed to achieve optimal outcomes.
  • Monitored, analyzed, and corrected staff performance and worked with nurse manager to raise standards of practice.
  • Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees.
  • Implemented successful healthcare program through professionalism, quality of care, medical teaching and patient satisfaction.
  • Created customized care plans, working with hospital staff and families to assess and meet individual needs.

CLINICAL EXAMINER

MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY
05.2016 - 11.2024
  • Assessing and grading both degree and diploma clinical medicine students.
  • Writing a detailed report of general students' performance and areas that required improvements.
  • Evaluated students in the following clinical areas; obstetrics and gynecology, medicine, surgery, pediatrics and community health.

Clinical Oncologist,intern

MERU TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
06.2021 - 12.2021


  • Offering all ranges of cancer screening services.
  • Cancer staging.
  • Offering palliative care services.
  • Cancer chemotherapy prescriptions.
  • Patient referral for radiotherapy.
  • Oncology emergency management.
  • Collected, recorded and maintained patient medical history, reports and examination results.
  • Trained support staff in patient care strategies, intake requirements and requirements for assisting with different procedures.
  • Prescribed medications and therapies to improve patients' health and well-being.
  • Provided and managed direct patient care by conducting physical examinations, evaluations and assessments to determine diagnosis.
  • Administered specialized treatment for multiple patients daily.

NAIROBI WOMENS HOSPITAL
02.2017 - 09.2020
  • Management of gender based violence survivors.
  • Attending to legal medical issues on gender based violence matters.
  • Inpatient management of clients.
  • Outpatient management of chronic diseases.
  • Conducting medical camps.
  • Conducting continuous medical educations.
  • Patient referral system.
  • Conducting various medical and surgical procedures.
  • Conducting specialized clinics in peads, gynae, orthopedics and medical patients.

ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL KASARANI
06.2016 - 01.2017
  • Emergency and critical care management.
  • Inpatient management in medical and pediatric wards.
  • Attending to antenatal clients offering focused ANC services.
  • Conducting emergency deliveries.
  • Offering specialized clinics weekly to diabetic, hypertensive and gynecological clients.
  • Performing various surgical procedures including, stitching, suture removal, suprapubic catheter placement, disarticulation, incision and drainage, chest tube placement, ascitic tapping, ear irrigations, removal of foreign bodies, episiotomy and its repair.
  • Conducting disease surveillance in liaison with public health department reporting in case disease outbreaks e.g. typhoid, salmonellosis.
  • Inspecting and maintaining various machines including in perfect working condition.
  • Referral and clients follow-up services ensuring they experience no hiccups.
  • Outpatient department clinical supervisor.

Clinical Intern

MERU TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
05.2015 - 04.2016
  • CASUALTY BAY - Duties: on call clinician providing emergency care services, history taking and physical exam, ordering lab tests, surgical procedures including stitching, suture removal, suprapubic catheter placement, ascitic tapping, nebulizing, ear irrigation, circumcisions, dislocation reduction maneuvers, admitting clients to various wards.
  • MEDICAL WARD - Duties: on call clinician conducting daily ward rounds, case presentation in major rounds, ordering and interpreting various lab tests, placement of chest tubes, liaison with CCC for HAART initiation and refills, catheters insertion.
  • SURGICAL WARD on call clinician: assisting in major and minor surgeries, daily ward round, managing various surgical chronic conditions, attending to patients in surgical outpatient clinic, assessing medical students.
  • PEDIATRIC WARD: on call clinician; attending to pediatrics emergency cases, conducting daily ward round, managing inpatients pediatrics various conditions, assessing students in pediatrics rotation, initiation of HAART to eligible group, conducting pediatrics outpatient clinic, conducting and reporting on maternal mortality rate.
  • OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY: duties; conducting daily round, conducting deliveries, assisting in caesarean sections, providing PMTC services, conducting maternal and neonatal mortality rate survey, providing family planning services, providing post aortal care.
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH; conducting disease surveillance, conducting community diagnosis, home based visit, school health education.
  • COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTRE; providing voluntary testing and counseling services, initiation of HAART to pediatrics and adult eligible group, ordering appropriate lab tests including gene Expert for sputum, liver function tests, renal function tests, viral load, CD4 count, patient follow-up.
  • ONCOLOGY AND PALLIATIVE CARE; booking clients for oncology clinics, effective pain management services, patient's rehydration for chemotherapy, patients referral service where appropriate.

Education

HND - oncology and palliative care

Kenya Medical Training College
12.2021

Basic and advanced life support - undefined

Nairobi women's hospital
05.2019

B.Sc. - clinical medicine and community health

Mount Kenya University
01.2013

Skills

  • Patient Care
  • Healthcare management
  • Clinical leadership
  • Case management
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Patient relationship management
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Clinical education
  • Healthcare administration
  • Patient care coordination
  • Performance improvement
  • Care review

Personal Information

Title: Clinical Service In Charge

Career Profile Summary

Seasoned Clinical Service in Charge with over ten years of experience in hospital operations, home health care, and long-term care. I am exceptionally passionate about educational development and I believe strongly in self-empowerment and access to better education to all. Proven ability to lead and manage teams, develop policies and procedures, and optimize organizational performance. Demonstrated success in improving patient satisfaction rates and reducing costs. Passionate about getting people back to health through diagnosis and proper care ensuring professional medical healthcare is given to all patients under my care. I have gained experience in both medical and surgical procedures, preparing and responding to emergencies. My Goal is to grow in my career as a medical officer and participate in providing professional medical care to patients and offer psychological help to families of patients.

Affiliations

  • Hope for cancer kids Kenya

Certification

  • Licensed in Kenya as clinical oncology and palliative care specialist- from Year 2021.
  • licensed Kenyan clinical officer from Year 2016.Performs similar duties to Physician assistant.

Languages

English
Full Professional
Swahili
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Director of Clinical Services - OAKLAND HOSPITAL
01.2022 - 03.2025
Clinical Oncologist,intern - MERU TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
06.2021 - 12.2021
- NAIROBI WOMENS HOSPITAL
02.2017 - 09.2020
- ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL KASARANI
06.2016 - 01.2017
CLINICAL EXAMINER - MOUNT KENYA UNIVERSITY
05.2016 - 11.2024
Clinical Intern - MERU TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
05.2015 - 04.2016
Nairobi women's hospital - Basic and advanced life support,
Mount Kenya University - B.Sc., clinical medicine and community health
Kenya Medical Training College - HND, oncology and palliative care

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