Richard Reamico

• Responsible for patient care, including medication dose adjustments and vascular access coordination
• Other responsibilities include composing progress reports and educating patients on various topics related to their care.

• Providing hemodialysis patient care, plasmapheresis, and peritoneal dialysis in a hospital setting
• Unit-Based Team Labor Co-Lead - tasked with projects to improve the quality of care and reduce operational expenses
• Championed UBT projects; 1. Affordability: water conservation and overtime reduction 2. Quality: prevention of rehospitalization through patient education 3. Quality: revised hemodialysis machine and RO log to minimize entry errors and to help with audits 4. Affordability: overtime reduction initiative, which had a potential saving of >$20,000 annually without compromising patient care.
• Union Contract Specialist (2023, 2024); provides education and support to union members within the affiliate Labor Sponsor to 2 hospital departments Provides support and access to resources

• Providing hemodialysis patient care in a hospital and chronic outpatient setting
• Responsible for patient care, including medication dose adjustments and vascular access coordination
• Other responsibilities include composing progress reports and educating patients on various topics related to their care
• Member of Fistula Team – ensures the assessment and implementation on established facility protocol in caring for maturing permanent access or revised access.

Facility Administrator

• Ensures compliance with the Nurse Practice Act, Federal, State, the ESRD Network, and local regulatory requirements
• Collaborates with the Nephrologists and members of the Interdisciplinary Team in evaluating, improving and maintaining a high quality of care for the patients
• Management of clinical outcomes for 160 hemodialysis patients and 30+ peritoneal dialysis patients
• Orientation and training of new Facility Administrators
• Implemented successful training programs to introduce the company’s policies and procedures to three newly-acquired facilities in 2016
• Assume clinical coordinator responsibilities, assure compliance with all regulatory agencies, implementation of the company’s policies and procedures, financial management, and personnel management of 40 employees.
• Provides staff education to maintain their knowledge of the company's policies and procedures.

Area Director

• Oversaw the operations of 19 California and Arizona dialysis programs, which include in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and acute hemodialysis.
• Started and managed a PCT & RN float pool to support facilities in Southern California in 2017
• Monitor the financial health of every facility in my area and provided support to achieve their clinical and financial goals.
• Supported each facility during CMS audits and helped draft plans of corrections.

• Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the dialysis facility in the absence of the Clinic Manager
• Assigned to review clinical outcomes and lead the Interdisciplinary Team in evaluating the root causes for not meeting goals, devising and implementing the plan of correction
• Led the clinical team in drafting the Plan of Correction for the deficiencies identified during the recertification survey by CMS
• Accomplishments Helped draft the plans of corrections for the deficiencies cited during the Department of Health Survey in 2019.