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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
Leah Adams