Director, Rehabilitation Therapy Services, 2020 - Current
- Oversee daily operations for University and Children's Hospitals rehabilitation teams of approximately 100 therapists. Includes maintaining staffing levels based on patient census, meeting all regulatory requirements, coordinating staff training, and mentoring leadership teams, maintaining good relationships with hospital leadership and physician groups
- Increased FTE's to meet increased patient volume
- Manage budgets for 6 cost centers
- Ensure all cost centers meet productivity and provide coaching for teams as needed to meet goals
- Addressing employee performance issues and utilizing HRM when disciplinary action was required
- Participate in multiple hospital wide committees, including Safe Patient Handling, Service Best Practice, Hand Hygiene, CH QI, Uniform Steering, Early Mobility, Schwartz Center Rounds planning group
- PI improvement teams including Early Mobility, and Onboarding/Hiring
- Led PI Project in rehab to decrease turnaround time from physician order to completed evaluation
- Providing excellent customer service based on GRETE and Service Best Practice Team
- CTP - coordinated rehab team's move into Troesh Medical Campus. Included training staff to be survey ready, ensured compliance with Title 22 regulations, oversaw staff training and education on new equipment and way finding. Ensured all gym equipment was installed correctly and was in working order. Worked with CTP oversight team and Project Managers to meet all requirements for this project.
Prior positions include:
Rehabilitation Manager, UH/CH 2005-2020
Speech Pathology Supervisor, UH/CH/EC/ORC 2002-2005
Occupational Therapy and Speech Pathology Supervisor 1998-2002
Speech Pathology Supervisor 1995 - 1998
Per Diem Speech Pathologist - 1990 - 1995
Highlights from prior positions include:
- Providing speech therapy to inpatient rehab and acute care patients from 1990-2005 Member of CVA and TBI Teams (1990-1995)
- Coordinated monthly CEU in-services for rehab staff, utilizing Staff Development Services
- Lead planning committees for multiple conferences targeting rehab, nursing and respiratory care teams, including 11 annual laryngectomy conferences, adult dysphagia conference, OT splinting conference, NICU feeding and swallowing conference, and voice conference
- Supervised speech pathology student interns
- Coordinated student programs with LLU and other universities to provide internship/affiliations for their students
- Presenter at New Employee Orientation, Innovating Excellence, Basic Concepts in Rehabilitation Nursing
- Member of LLEAP Document Design Committee. Designed LLEAP forms for speech pathology. Coordinated training for rehab staff to transition to computerized documentation