Pat Collins

Oversee community management to ensure accountability for the control, utilization and conservation of the physical and financial assets of each community.

Monitor community compliance with operating rules, laws and regulations and principles and policies.

Provide secondary oversight and work collaboratively with regional nurse to ensure clinical compliance and practice in communities.

ensure the community management is accountable for an effective sales effort that achieves maximum occupancy and value per unit.

Responsible for the recruitment, selection, coaching and direction for the ADM role and others as needed.

Complete community audit process with follow up action planning.

Monitor community financial performance.

Set goals and action steps with regional team to meet divisional goals.

Provice nurse orientation including policy /procedures/documentation/computer programs.

Support the region with educational training including PCA classes, medication facilitation training and skills fairs.

Involved with the state survey process / plan of correction and follow up.

Develop and implement new nursing policy and procedures.

Complete annual nurse evaluation scorecard with follow up training as necessary.

First point of contact / support for clinical questions from facilities.

Active in the development process of dementia programming.

Assist region with change over to electronic medical records.

Provided services in quality assurance, policy and procedure and general areas of long term care nursing services to several facilities as consultant.

Established procedures that ar more efficient for facility personnel.

Assisted in developing nursing policy and procedure.

Audited patient records for all disciplines to identify concerns and assisted in problem solving.

Assisted facility during Department of Justice Survey with positive outcomes.

Responsible for management of psychiatry and psychology services to residents of long term care facilities throughout TN, MS and NC.

Developed and implemented new programs, policy and procedures to affect positive changes for company growth and employee satisfaction.

Assisted with budget for field operations for multi state area.

Hired, trained and managed LCSWs, psychologists, nurse practitioners and psychiatrists to deliver care to clients of LTC facilities.

Assisted in marketing for new growth.

Assisted in quality assurance initiatives to assure Medicare compliance.

Acted as liaison between health care clinician and contracted facilities.

Responsible for nursing staff for 67 bed facility, including staffing, scheduling and training.

Developed and implemented nursing policies and procedures and maintained necessary records for state survey process.

Scheduled and supervised management meetings for all disciplines in facility.

Organized and maintained files for utilization reviews, quality assurance and other nursing related activities.

Certified by state to instruct CNA classes.

Conducted educational training for all employees.

Hired nursing personnel

Maintained employee physicals and maintained OSHA log.

Served as Case Manager for employee Workers Comp cases.

Assisted with Medicare assessment and charting.

Basic nursing duties as well as critical care nursing duties and trauma care.

Charge nurse responsibilities including staffing and scheduling.

Served as preceptor for new graduate nurses

Served on committee to interview prospective employees for critical care unit.

Participated in Quality Assurance program.