Focused healthcare leader with success in designing customer-oriented programs and developing high performing service-oriented teams. Accomplished in working with organizational leaders to establish business goals and devise strategies driving revenue generation and business growth.
Overview
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years of professional experience
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Work History
Faculty Practices Operations Manager
Montefiore
04.2023 - Current
Administrative Management of 10 neurology outpatient faculty practices, teaching clinics, procedure labs and 2 patient access call centers across the Bronx and Westchester.
Oversee diverse team of 50 unionized associates, including office coordinators, secretaries, clinicians, and clinical support team, which includes nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, lab technicians, and patient care technicians; as well as non-unionized management team of operations managers and supervisors
Built high-performing teams by streamlining staffing matrix through effective recruitment, onboarding and training of 21 positions including newly created patient care technician positions.
Foster positive workplace culture by implementing mentoring program, provide personalized coaching for staff development and cross training to promote collaboration, positive feedback, reduce turnover rate, boost morale and increase engagement.
Collaborate with executive leadership on strategic planning initiatives to drive business growth, managing budgets and ensure optimal financial performance.
Monitor statistics and quality improvement measures to plan, prepare and communicate monthly reporting to drive productivity and performance goals.
Establish robust risk mitigation strategies to safeguard against potential operational challenges or disruptions.
Improve practice operations through capital projects aim to modernize practices, improve efficiency, patient flow and resource allocations.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams on strategic project to Implement EPIC decision trees for the practices and call centers minimizing scheduling errors, decreasing patient complaints and improving patient access.
Successfully led practices through the 2024 Joint Commission survey ensuring practices were compliant and met all necessary guidelines and requirements.
Enhance customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
Establish positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications, and missed deadlines.
Graduate Practice Administrator
Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine
New York, NY
9 2021 - 04.2023
Assisted with daily execution of successful staffing matrix for 16 multidisciplinary departments, seeing average of 600-800 patients daily.
Collaborated with C-Suite executives and Directors of Operations in developing productivity standards, managing quality and staff performance, determining guidelines for staffing levels, and prioritizing work activities.
Conducted organizational-wide training as needed on Epic workflows, treatment planning, billing estimates, and patient care management for faculty, students, residents, and support staff.
Provided feedback on students' and residents' progress and compliance with academic program guidelines and standards of care.
Optimized patient access, facilitating appointment scheduling and check-out workflows by digitalizing appointment scheduling using EPIC workqueues.
Participated in developing and organizing marketing campaigns and details to attract dental implant patients.
Practice Manager
Hospital for Special Surgery
04.2018 - 08.2021
Developed and implemented business strategies, policies & procedures for two outpatient virtual & ambulatory practice locations.
Interviewed, trained and supervised administrative staff within the practice and provided direct performance review.
Managed day-to-day medical and administrative operations and workflows including credentialing, planning and executing staff meetings, generating administrative performance reports, managing staff schedules and timecard monitoring, revenue cycle, patient scheduling.
Pilot hospital-wide project to develop and implement new workflow for obtaining insurance authorizations for osteoarthritis injections. Trained team, formulated overall guidelines and instructional manual for hospital-wide use.
Led practice through initiative to integrate company-wide Telehealth visits for Primary Care Sports Medicine service line during COVID-19 pandemic.
Participated in hospital-wide scanning program adoption to enhance viewing and organization of scanned documents into EPIC.
Medical Secretary
Hospital for Special Surgery
03.2011 - 06.2017
Enthusiastically supported and integrated Hospital's purpose and vision into daily activities, promoting environment that embodied core values of service excellence, care & professionalism
Education
MBA - Managerial Analytics and Data Management
Mercy College of New York
New York, NY
08.2014 - 2016.05
Skills
Strategic Planning and Execution
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Affiliations
EPIC Champion Award at Hospital for Special Surgery for being a resource to my colleagues during hospital-wide transition and integration of EPIC electronic medical record system
Special Trainings: Inclusive Culture Training, Corrective Action & Progressive Discipline Process Training, Promoting A Culture of Safety Training, Faculty Practices Leadership Program, PDSA Cycle Training
Systems: EPIC, CareTracker, Tableau, Microsoft Office, Kronos, Power BI, SAP HCM