Sharon Steele

System Leadership

• Clinical coordination across BHECH, NICU, and System Speech Therapy while managing expanded directorial responsibilities.
• Accelerated workforce development by recruiting and mentoring rehab therapy managers, chairing Rehab Therapy Clinical Advancement Council.
• Optimized financial performance by consistently exceeding productivity targets across three distinct facilities and multiple departments.
• Structured early ICU mobility initiative to enhance patient outcomes.
• Launched Acute Care Practice Consortium to bridge communication gaps and align clinical delivery with regulatory evidence-based practices.
• Managed corporate compliance for rehab therapy across metro and regional hospitals and outpatient clinics.
• Facilitator between academic programs and organization legal department for clinical affiliation contracts
• Collaboration with rehab therapy leadership across settings in system - acute care, long term acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and OP
• Creation and implementation of system rehab therapy clinical consortium for acute hospitals
• Development of Mobility tech program, recruitment, and education/training program
• Development and implementation of initial and yearly clinical competencies
• Clinical lead in the service line rationalization of new degree offering at Baptist Health college, panel interview member for Associate Dean of new program
• EHR data extraction to understand current workflows and improve efficiency and efficacy of rehab therapy process in acute care
• EHR documentation enhancements to support therapy documentation along the continuum of care
• Delivered EHR training sessions to staff at newly acquired hospitals.
• System responsibilities include policy creation and revision, job description revisions, employee recruitment at program job fair
• Rehab therapy representative for Customer experience for BHMC LR and BHECH, LOS (length of stay) executive committee, stroke accreditation reviews, AR health department, Joint reviews

Facility Leadership

• Mentor and direct report leadership for rehab therapy manager LR acute, system speech manager for BHRI LR, Clinical Coordinator for BHECH, and NICU therapy staff
• Business plan development and evaluation for BHMC LR and BHECH
• Quality reporting rehab therapy BHMC LR and BHECH
• Employee recruitment, retention, coaching, counseling
• Strategic staffing for BHMC LR and BHECH

• Developed workforce strategies for talent recruitment and mentored employees on clinical advancement pathways, enhancing team capabilities.
• Established departmental infrastructure by creating original procedures for BHECH rehab unit, streamlining operations and enhancing service delivery.
• Maintained high-efficiency productivity standards across multiple departments, ensuring fiscal responsibility and resource optimization.
• Developed and tracked quality measures for rehab therapy at the facility.
• Promoted to position from Administrative Physical Therapist BHMC LR

• Advanced from staff physical therapist to administrative physical therapist in January 2016.