SCOTT E. GUENTHER
Fresno
Summary
Healthcare leader with extensive experience at Valley Children's Hospital, specializing in patient management and throughput optimization. Demonstrated success in coordinating emergency responses and implementing policies that enhance interdisciplinary collaboration. Skilled in operational oversight, driving efficiency, and ensuring compliance with healthcare standards.
Seeking a position in the aviation industry with many transferable skills and experience.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
HOUSE SUPERVISOR (PATIENT THROUGHPUT MANAGER)
Valley Children's Hospital
Fresno
01.2002 - Current
- Accountable for all operations with hospital-wide shift responsibility for a 360-bed acute care NFP hospital offering Level II Trauma and specialized pediatric services in the absence of facility administrators after hours and on weekends.
- Leads interdisciplinary supervisory and support team in providing excellent care to patients during designated 12-hour shift; conducts detailed status briefings 4 times per shift, rounds on all units during intervening periods, and ensures that all care is compliant with TJC, CMS, CDPH and professional standards and is consistent with policies, procedures, and practices.
- Initiates emergency operations as dictated by state and federal regulations and internal and external events requiring timely and appropriate response to ensure patient, caregiver, and facility safety while managing risks; assesses situations, determines priorities, directs resource utilization, coordinates deployment of staff within mandated ratios, documents actions and outcomes, follows incident throughout shift or to conclusion, and reports status to senior administrators including recommendations for system-wide changes.
- Monitors all patient activity within the house, processes inputs regarding admissions and discharges, balances staffing and financial priorities, and makes and communicates decisions regarding patient placement to minimize wait times in the provision of care, maximize throughput of patients, ensure availability of beds upon admission, and enhance the patient experience.
- Champions mission and values, forging and maintaining relationships with leadership at all levels within the facility and key players outside the facility, serving as a liaison and colleague with physicians, nursing staff, ancillary departments, and others as needed to efficiently and effectively manage operations within budget.
- Directs nursing functions within Magnet Hospital guidelines, mentors Charge Nurses, Supervisors, and members of the care team, models behaviors that are essential to providing patients and families with the best care and experience possible, resolves practice issues and initiates corrective action as needed, and intervenes in sensitive human resources and customer service issues before they become major concerns.
- Creates and provides CNO and designated administrators with status report of the house immediately by email if indicated and after each shift, including statistical patient and labor utilization data, significant events and response, recommendations for action and follow up, and other information necessary to assess performance relative to organization goals and objectives.
- Routinely reviews, updates, and implements changes in policies and procedures; educates staff and communicates house wide initiatives, metrics and achievement of results; completes specialized improvement projects; and makes presentations to facility leadership.
- Remains current on changes in healthcare and professional practice through ongoing development.
- Valley Children's is the flagship of Valley Children's Healthcare, a regional system whose mission is to provide the best inpatient and outpatient services to infants and children through a community based network of facilities and providers in California's Central Valley.
PER DIEM Administrative House Supervisor
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Administrator on site in absence of leadership. Works closely with Administration for all operational and personnel issues on a shift to shift basis.
- 361 bed Children's Magnet Hospital, Nationally ranked teaching hospital.
PER DIEM HOUSE SUPERVISOR
Clovis Community Hospital (CCH)
Fresno
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Accountable as above for a 200-bed acute care NFP hospital offering emergency, general and specialized patient care services with emphasis on transfers within the three-hospital system serving California's Central Valley.
- Community Medical Centers, Fresno, California.
Education
MBA - Healthcare Administration & Human Resources Management
National University
Fresno, CaliforniaBSN -
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Dominguez Hills, CaliforniaRN -
Fresno City College
Fresno, CaliforniaLVN -
Columbia College
Columbia, CaliforniaSkills
- Patient management
- Patient throughput optimization
- Emergency response coordination
- Policy implementation
- Interdisciplinary team leadership
- Operational oversight
Certification
- BLS
- NE-BC
- ICS 100
- ICS 200
- ICS 700
- ICS 800
Professional Memberships
California State Board of Registered Nursing, Intervention Evaluation Committee Member, Evaluate and Plan recovery Programs for Registered Nurses with Substance and or Mental Health disorders.
Timeline
PER DIEM Administrative House Supervisor
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital
01.2017 - 01.2020
PER DIEM HOUSE SUPERVISOR
Clovis Community Hospital (CCH)
01.2013 - 01.2014
HOUSE SUPERVISOR (PATIENT THROUGHPUT MANAGER)
Valley Children's Hospital
01.2002 - Current
MBA - Healthcare Administration & Human Resources Management
National University
BSN -
California State University, Dominguez Hills
RN -
Fresno City College
LVN -
Columbia College