Rebecca Le Roy
Summary
Results-oriented leader with a proven track record of optimizing surgical operations, improving patient care, and fostering a positive and efficient team environment. With over 31 years of clinical nursing experience, including more than a decade in perioperative leadership, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. Leveraging my extensive clinical background, adept at navigating high-quality value using cost-saving strategies, ensuring cost-saving initiatives while maintaining the highest standards of care.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager Surgery
Northwest Health Porter
02.2023 - Current
- Operating and Capital Budget planning.
- Collaboration with Supply Chain, standardizing products within department, reducing duplication, decreasing inventory, implementing par levels
- Overseeing the quality care delivered in 12 operating room suites
- Supervised and mentoring of surgical staff, including nurses, technicians and other personnel. 54 FTE
- Managed the workflow of the surgical unit to ensure efficient and safe patient care,
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards
- Manage the department budget and resources.
- Responsible for staffing the surgery department, oversight, orientation, education, and outcomes
- Collaborated with physicians and other healthcare professionals to ensure optimal patient outcomes
- Evaluate and conduct annual staff reviews
- Implementation of daily safety huddles
- Collaborating with the leadership team to promote the hospital's mission, initiatives, and values
- Performed a variety of staff management functions including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, counseling, and terminating
- Improving department culture by empowering staff, in decision making, problem solving, and holding accountable.
Interim Manager Surgery
B. E. Smith Agency, Bristol Regional Medical Center
05.2022 - 01.2023
- Operating and Capital Budget planning, supply standardization, inventory control, performance improvement
- Responsible for the quality care delivered in 12 operating room suites
- Led 65 FTEs
- Responsible for staffing the surgery department, oversight, orientation, education, and outcomes
- Conduct annual reviews
- Identification and collaboration with infection control decreased hysterectomy infections by 35% with trending downward within 3 months
- Collaboration with the leadership team to promote the hospital's mission, initiatives, and values
- Implemented initiatives to decrease expired supplies
- Collaboration with Supply Chain with reorganizing inventory, reducing inventory and implementing perpetual inventory
- Performed a variety of staff management functions including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, counseling, and terminating
- Collaborating with staff on implementing a new staffing matrix, releasing staffing schedules timely, taking the schedule out from 4 weeks to 8 weeks
- Collaboration with Plant Ops to create a plan to make needed department repairs
- Developed equipment needs/priority listing for Senior leaders
- Implemented training with Intuitive to facilitate training of staff by collaborating with surgeons, Intuitive and staff to certify and train all surgical nurses in Divinci procedures and increasing the CST trained to meet the demand and need.
- Developed Charge nurses and implemented a weekly touch base to identify areas of need and discuss strategies to fix.
- Increasing Communication to staff by sending daily email with assignments for next day along with valuable information regarding department and hospital business
Manager Surgery, and Sterilization
UCHICAGO MEDICINE INGALLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
01.2021 - 04.2022
- Operating and Capital Budgets, supply standardization, inventory control, performance improvement
- Developed annual strategic plans & performance improvement measures
- DNV preparation and risk management
- Policy and procedure review and creation
- Responsible for the quality care delivered in 9 operating room suites, Sterilization
- Total of 54 FTEs
- Responsible for staffing both departments, oversite, orientation, education, and outcomes
- Conduct annual performance reviews
- Collaborating with the leadership team to promote the hospital's mission, initiatives, and values
- Implemented initiatives to decrease expired supplies
- Collaboration with Supply Chain to assist reorganizing, ordering and storing of supplies in SPD.
- Led initiative of breaking down silos between SPD and surgery staff
- Optimizing workflow, organization and functionality within surgery and SPD
- Complete reorganization of the sterilization department. Optimizing work stations, schedules, streamline workflow, organized instruments, supplies
- Spearheading the optimization of preference cards, updating surgical trays
Director of perioperative services
Vista Health System
01.2020 - 08.2020
- Operating and Capital Budgets, supply standardization, inventory control, performance improvement
- Developed annual strategic plans & performance improvement measures for each department in collaboration with managers
- Policy review and creation, implementation
- Total of 60 FTEs
- Responsible for staffing all departments, oversight of orientation, education, and outcomes
- Evaluation and education of staff in surgical services
- Perform monthly unit meetings
- Focus on rebuilding and reorganization of surgical services
- Restructuring and optimizing staffing in all surgical service departments
- Improved productivity from 67% to 97% efficiency for 4 plus months
- Increased block utilization and increased surgical volumes
- Reduced overall underutilized supplies
- Implemented surgical tray optimization project
- Created assignments for staff to easily check par levels for supplies and monthly checks on expiration dates
- Identified team leads to create ownership of the specialties
- Implementation and optimization of preference cards
- Included in the upgrading process of the EMR (Cerner)
- Updating preference cards
- Collaboration with surgeons and staff to establish healthy working relationships, increasing favorable patient outcomes and patient satisfaction
Manager Surgery, Endoscopy, Sterilization
Franciscan Health
05.2015 - 12.2019
- Operating and Capital Budgets, supply standardization, inventory control, performance improvement
- Developed annual strategic plans & performance improvement measures
- HFAP preparation and risk management
- Policy and procedure review and creation
- Responsible for the quality care delivered in 12 operating room suites, 1 C-Section suite, 4 Endoscopy suites, SPD
- Total of 65 FTEs
- Responsible for staffing all departments, oversight of orientation, education, and outcomes
- Evaluation and education of staff in surgical services
- Conduct annual performance reviews
- Perform monthly unit meetings
- Implemented with daily oversight of daily safety huddles
- Increased block utilization by 20% and increased surgical volumes
- Implements lean initiatives focus on safety, optimization, and workflows
- Collaborating with the leadership team to promote the hospital's mission, initiatives, and values
- Implemented initiatives to decrease expired supplies overall by 20 percent
- Decreased average turnover time by 24 percent
- Collaboration with corporate, SPD staff and inventory control staff with the implementation of perpetual inventory
- Engaging and leading the endoscopy frontline staff in planning and redesign, update the endoscopy suites by utilizing best practice
- Collaboration with IT, facilities, biomed and education to implement new equipment
- Problem solving and breaking down silos between SPD and surgery staff
- Collaborated with the Medical Staff office to implement a new surgeon onboarding resource for new surgeons
- Sustained an environment supporting excellence and innovation with a focus on safety in clinical nursing practice and patient care through assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and standards for positive patient outcomes
- Performed a variety of staff management functions including interviewing, hiring, evaluating, counseling, and terminating
- Facilitated, reviewed, and approved budget including estimates of future personnel and equipment needs to ensure the hospital resources were utilized carefully
- Collaborated with administration and surgeons to identify future opportunities, to define the direction, to develop plans to achieve identified goals, including OR efficiency, productivity and patient throughput targets across surgery, endoscopy, and sterilization
- Participated in work groups, and meetings
- Ensured interdisciplinary performance improvement plans were active, maintained, and ongoing
- Performed follow up to ensure complaints were satisfactorily managed
- Participated in becoming Level 3 Trauma Center.
- Participated in rebuilding the open heart program, collaborating with surgeons, supply chain, vendors to order equipment, supplies and staff preparation.
- Working with sister hospital leadership and front line staff to create a process to move patients in need of open heart services from one site to another safely.
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Patient Care Coordinator
Franciscan Health
04.2000 - 05.2015
Staff Registered nurse
Franciscan Health
04.1997 - 04.2000
OR Circulating Room Nurse
Methodist Hospital
05.1994 - 04.1997
Education
Bachelor oF Science and Nursing -
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana05.1994
Skills
- Clinical Nursing Expertise
- Surgical Patient Care
- Operating Room Equipment Oversight
- Endoscopy and sterilization management
- Process Optimization
- Budget Management
- Team Collaboration Leadership
- Project Coordination
- Clear Communicator
- Effective Collaborator
- Proficient Problem Solver
- Positive Leadership
- Dyad Leadership Development
- Organizational Change Management
- Effective Conflict Resolution
- Budgeting and Financial Management
- Continuous Improvement Initiatives
Certification
- Basic Life Support
- ACLS
- Dyad Leadership Training
- Current Indiana Nursing License
- Current Illinois Nursing License
- Current Compact Nursing License
Timeline
Manager Surgery
Northwest Health Porter
02.2023 - Current
Interim Manager Surgery
B. E. Smith Agency, Bristol Regional Medical Center
05.2022 - 01.2023
Manager Surgery, and Sterilization
UCHICAGO MEDICINE INGALLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
01.2021 - 04.2022
Director of perioperative services
Vista Health System
01.2020 - 08.2020
Manager Surgery, Endoscopy, Sterilization
Franciscan Health
05.2015 - 12.2019
Patient Care Coordinator
Franciscan Health
04.2000 - 05.2015
Staff Registered nurse
Franciscan Health
04.1997 - 04.2000
OR Circulating Room Nurse
Methodist Hospital
05.1994 - 04.1997
Bachelor oF Science and Nursing -
Ball State University
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