Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
References
Publications
Timeline
Hi, I’m

Michele Mandrich

Minneapolis,MN

Summary

I am a driven, initiative-taking, accomplished health care leader with deep outpatient operational expertise and a proven track record at leading healthcare organizations providing multi-specialty, primary care, behavioral health, and social services. I'm skilled in program development, fiscal management and quality improvement, achieving enhanced operational efficiencies and high staff morale through effective communication and leadership development. I posses strong analytical skills, strategic thinking, and effective communication skills that promote success in driving operational excellence. I am seeking a new opportunity that will leverage my best strengths, skills, and abilities to improve healthcare in the state of Minnesota.

Overview

16
years of professional experience

Work History

Allina Health

Mental Health Clinical Operations Manager
06.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Multisite hospital-based clinic practice management (specialty mental health, rehab psychology, pain psychology, neuropsychology, and health psychology)
  • 104 provider FTEs, 5 management team direct reports, and 89 indirect clinical and business support staff
  • Developed key performance indicators to monitor departmental progress and identify areas for improvement.
  • Evaluated and analyzed patient feedback to identify gaps in service delivery, implementing effective solutions that led to increased satisfaction rates.
  • Improved patient satisfaction by streamlining clinical operations and implementing efficient processes.
  • Ensured regulatory compliance with timely audits, thorough documentation, and prompt corrective actions.
  • Promoted high morale and staff retention through dynamic communication, prompt problem resolution, proactive supervisory practices and facilitation of positive work environment.
  • Identified opportunities to improve clinical practices, devised strategies and implemented plans to increase patient care standards and enhance operational procedures.

Optum

Sr. Director Clinical Operations
08.2019 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Implement innovative technology and workflows to reduce low value care on a national team
  • Leverage advanced market analytics to identify hot spots for poor outcomes
  • Drove strategic improvements to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.
  • Developed strong relationships with key industry partners, fostering collaboration and mutual growth opportunities.
  • Fostered work culture of collaboration and inclusion to increase morale and reduce turnover.
  • Instituted formal operating procedures and enforced adherence to policies and regulations that impacted bottom-line.

North Memorial Health

Specialty Clinic Manager
08.2017 - 08.2019

Job overview

Operations leader for Specialty Clinics – Mental Health (Partial Hospitalization Program, Intensive Outpatient Program, Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care), Infectious Disease and Maternal Fetal Medicine.

  • Provide overall strategic direction and operational leadership partnering with provider leads
  • Manage forty direct, indirect clinical and nonclinical staff and provider FTEs
  • Manage multi-million-dollar annual budgets
  • Manage systems, processes, and programs at each service to achieve organizational goals in finance, patient satisfaction, safety, quality, and engagement
  • Engage in continuous process and systems improvement leading to improved operational performance
  • Lead culture change and team building efforts to foster engaged and high performing interdisciplinary teams

University of Minnesota Physicians – Broadway Family Medicine

Sr. Clinic Manager
01.2013 - 07.2017

Job overview

  • Company Overview: Practice management for a large family medicine practice and residency in a medically underserved urban setting
  • 35,000 visits annually
  • Lead and manage the clinical, business office and administrative operations of a large urban Family Medicine practice and residency (forty-eight part-time providers, three supervisors and thirty-seven staff) with 30,000 visits annually.
  • Establish and oversee a 6.6-million-dollar budget and accounting system that has improved efficiency and reduced costs annually over three years.
  • Lead and direct work of interdisciplinary project teams in the design and implementation of process change, grants, research studies and quality improvement efforts towards strategic goals.
  • Develop high functioning managers to lead and supervise engaged clinic teams to best serve the patient population.
  • Use Lean Management Systems, methods, and tools to drive sustained operational and day to day process improvements, stressing adherence to standard work and measurable targets.

Hennepin County Medical Center – Richfield Clinic

Clinic Manager
07.2010 - 12.2012

Job overview

  • Lead and manage the overall clinical and business office and operations of a multi-specialty primary care clinic and two convenience care clinics within a large integrated health system with 26,000 visits annually.
  • Establish and oversee a $2 million-dollar budget.
  • Lead, direct and manage all aspects of a new business line in the convenience care market.
  • Across three sites, supervise a staff of thirty-five - APP's, RNs, MAs, clerical, and ancillary staff.
  • Set strategic direction, partnering with the Operations and Medical Directors, with emphases on growth, team building and employee engagement.

Hennepin County Medical Center – Family Medical Center

Clinic Supervisor
07.2008 - 07.2010

Job overview

  • Company Overview: Supervision and leadership of a clinical staff of thirty RNs, LPNs and MAs, including, scheduling, payroll, hiring, evaluation, teaching, coaching and human resources
  • Supervision and leadership of a clinical staff of thirty RNs, LPNs and MAs, including, scheduling, payroll, hiring, evaluation, teaching, coaching and human resources

Education

Augsburg College
Minneapolis, MN

MSW from Program Development, Policy, and Administration
01.1998

Bemidji State University
Bemidji, MN

B.S. from Psychology
01.1994

Skills

  • Deep clinic operations leadership expertise
  • Experience in both small startup and large, complex organizations
  • Engagement of interdisciplinary teams
  • Change management in clinical settings
  • Clinical workflow optimization
  • EMR and Practice Management Systems
  • Leadership development
  • Quality and Lean process improvement
  • Fiscal management
  • Project Management
  • Medical practice management
  • Effective Communication
  • Patient Safety
  • Quality Improvement

References

Available upon request.

Publications

1. Sherman, M.D., Miller, L., Keuler, M., Trump, L., & Mandrich, M. (2017). Managing behavioral health issues in primary care: Six 5-minute tools. Family Practice Management, 24(2), 30-35.

2. Buprenorphine Prescribing as a Medical Home Enhancement. Co-author and presenter at the December 2016 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Conference on Practice Improvement; Newport Beach, CA.

3. "Integrated Care Clinic": Full Integration of Behavioral Health in a Family Medicine Residency Program. Co-author and presenter at the April 2016 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) conference; Minneapolis, MN.

4. Incorporation of Behavioral Health Services into Transitional Care Management; A Model for Interprofessional Team-Based Post-Hospital Care in the Academic Family Medicine Clinic. Co-author and presenter at the April 2016 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Conference; Minneapolis, MN.

Timeline

Mental Health Clinical Operations Manager

Allina Health
06.2020 - Current

Sr. Director Clinical Operations

Optum
08.2019 - 03.2020

Specialty Clinic Manager

North Memorial Health
08.2017 - 08.2019

Sr. Clinic Manager

University of Minnesota Physicians – Broadway Family Medicine
01.2013 - 07.2017

Clinic Manager

Hennepin County Medical Center – Richfield Clinic
07.2010 - 12.2012

Clinic Supervisor

Hennepin County Medical Center – Family Medical Center
07.2008 - 07.2010

Bemidji State University

B.S. from Psychology

Augsburg College

MSW from Program Development, Policy, and Administration
Michele Mandrich