Leah Adams
Columbus,Ohio
Summary
Hardworking and reliable clinical manager with strong ability in daily operations. Expertly handles complaints, inquiries and service questions to meet patients' access needs and correct problems related to care. Highly organized, proactive and punctual with team-oriented mentality. Financial professional skilled in fiscal management and analysis with capability to highlight corporate financial trends. Well-versed in applying financial data to create informative reports.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Manager of Respiratory Care
Grant Medical Center
Columbus, OH
03.2022 - Current
- Interim Site Manager for pulmonary services for 3 months
- Vizient and finical benchmarking
- Performed all aspects of operational management-staffing, supplies, expense, medical record documentation and improvements, onboarding, education, and productivity.
- Attend multidiscipline meetings with peers, physicians, administration, and staff for presenting and receiving information for dissemination
- Supervised 50 staff members and provided periodic performance evaluations.
- Develop quality project improvements Review patient information concurrently and retrospectively to assure quality patient care maintain current and updated policies that meet JCAHO requirements.
- Technical consultant for the Blood Gas Analyzers
- Developed and managed project plans while providing status updates to management.
Board Treasurer
Ohio Society of Respiratory Care
12.2023 - Current
- Presented recommendations at board meetings related to budgeting decisions.
- Resolved account variances and reconciled bank statement histories.
- Coordinated financial statement reviews to coordinate variance reporting, analysis of year-to-date and forecast performance against expectations.
- Managed cash flow to ensure timely payments of accounts payable.
Clinical Instructor
Rhodes State College
05.2023 - Current
- Optimized learning plans by quantifying student progress through test administration.
- Created individualized learning plans tailored to each student's needs.
- Encouraged active participation from all students during class discussions and activities.
- Provided students with hands-on demonstrations and managed clinical logs, and medication administration.
- Used individualized instruction techniques to educate students on patient observation, assessment, decision-making and health teaching.
- Educated and mentored students to help individuals surmount academic obstacles and personal difficulties.
Registered Respiratory Therapist
Grant Medical Center
Columbus, OH
02.2017 - 03.2022
- Charge therapist experience in dealing with staffing shortages, assigning workloads, delegating tasks and on the spot, trouble shooting of staff, patient, and hospital issues
- Senior Leadership Council President
- Preceptor tasked with educating students and orienting new employees
- NICU Trained
- Developed a hiring committee to reach out to potential employees and conduct staff interviews
- Assisted in creating a new evaluation document for new hires
- Assisted with skills lab to educate all staff Educated new ER nurses on Ventilators
- RT Crisis documentation team helping create a new documentation flowsheet to aid low staffing issues.
- Collaborated with physicians, nurses or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties.
Assistant Aquatics Supervisor
Apple Valley Property Owners Association
05.2012 - 08.2016
- Managed and trained sixteen employees Handled customer complaints Resolved employee conflicts Created schedules and assignments Ensured compliance with safety, health department Held monthly in-service training sessions
Education
Master of Healthcare Administration -
Franklin University
12-2024
Bachelor’s in Health Science Management -
Kettering College
01.2020
Associate in Applied Science in Respiratory -
Shawnee State University
01.2017
Skills
- International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF)- Trained : specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training
- Leadership Academy Facilitator
- Restorative
- Woo
- Recruitment
- Organized
- Customer Service Management
- KPI Tracking
- Schedule Management
- Data Analysis
- Employee Development
- Attention to detail
- Advocate
- Energetic
- Passionate
- Collaborative team member
- Strong Verbal Communicator
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Certification
- The National Board for Respiratory Care #164648
- State Medical Board #15227
- AARC #9905450
- ACLS 2016 - April 2025
- NRP 2018 – November 2024
- BLS 2016 - December 2025
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Board Treasurer
Ohio Society of Respiratory Care
12.2023 - Current
Clinical Instructor
Rhodes State College
05.2023 - Current
Clinical Manager of Respiratory Care
Grant Medical Center
03.2022 - Current
Registered Respiratory Therapist
Grant Medical Center
02.2017 - 03.2022
Assistant Aquatics Supervisor
Apple Valley Property Owners Association
05.2012 - 08.2016
Master of Healthcare Administration -
Franklin University
Bachelor’s in Health Science Management -
Kettering College
Associate in Applied Science in Respiratory -
Shawnee State University
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