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Rachel Blum

Onalaska,WI

Summary

  • Experienced leader within Gundersen Health System Laboratory, specifically Regional Laboratory Services
  • Have worked with several Regional Clinic Managers over the years to maintain efficiency and right size services in regional labs
  • Experience merging affiliate hospital laboratories to standardize with Gundersen
  • Laboratory operational lead for Project Fusion

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Clinical Manager - Laboratory Services

Gundersen Health System
01.2016 - Current


  • Understand market trends and the impact on the laboratory, contributing to strategic and operational plans as well as translating the plans to lab services
  • Effectively use established processes to ensure accountability for effective operations and resource management
  • Effectively use established processes to: select, align, engage, develop, manage, and retain a team of highly skilled staff
  • Achieve seamless delivery of quality patient care and safety, excellence in patient experience and customer service
  • Provide leadership and accomplish objectives by ensuring the integration of processes and initiatives while modeling collaboration

Medical Laboratory Scientist

Gundersen Health System
05.2006 - 01.2016
  • Responsible for achieving and maintaining competence in performing automated and non-automated laboratory testing. Recognized unexpected test results, troubleshoot to determine cause and determine corrective action to resolve technical, instrument, pre-analytical and post-analytical problems.
  • Planned and prioritized workload demands; worked as a team to best ensure the laboratory delivered high quality laboratory test results in an accurate and timely manner.
  • Monitored Quality Control, Quality Assurance and variance reporting within acceptable performance standards.
  • Participated as a member of a team to select, validate and implement new test methodologies/instrumentation.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Clinical Laboratory Science

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, WI

MBA -

Viterbo University
La Crosse, WI
05-2021

Skills

  • College of American Pathologists Surveyor Certified
  • Microsoft Office
  • ASCP Clinical Laboratory Scientist Certified
  • Epic

Timeline

Clinical Manager - Laboratory Services

Gundersen Health System
01.2016 - Current

Medical Laboratory Scientist

Gundersen Health System
05.2006 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Science - Clinical Laboratory Science

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

MBA -

Viterbo University

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