Kim McKinley

I was fortunate to work at PeaceHealth for 3 years as the Trauma Program Manager. As such, I led 3 registrars, and 1 injury prevention specialist. The catchment area was all of northern and rural Oregon down to Portland and extending to northern California. The program met all of the criteria to be a Level 1 with the exception of research and a robust medical school affiliation.

For quality, the program, submitted to TQIP. All of the scores were good with the exception of pulmonary embolus. TQIP scored it slightly below benchmark. A taskforce was formed and it was found that the low dose molecular weight anticoagulant was being stopped on a routine basis for needed procedures. The protocol was changed and new orders were built in EPIC that became system wide.

My trauma administration experience started in 1996 as a Trauma Clinician. One of the responsibilities was to design and built the database using Trauma One. The hospital was still on paper so all data had to be manually abstracted. At that time, Marin County, Los Angeles County, Orange County and San Diego were all on Trauma One.

My next trauma hospital was Riverside County, California. It was a quieter hospital associated with Loma Linda University and a Level 2. It used Collector. I was there for 3 years before being recruited to the University of New Mexico, a Level 1 that also treated pediatrics and burns. I was there for 10 years and was over the trauma program. At that point, the registry program was Tri-Code that eventually morphed into Collector.

By the time I was the Director at PeaceHealth, I was back to Trauma One and still knew some of the original programmers.

As to why I do not have the required registrar certificates, they were not required for the Director position. I took ATLS and Stop the Bleed, TQIP and other trauma conferences. If I get this position, I will take both classes within one month.