Susie Cardamone
Bloomington,IL
Summary
Currently using my background in medicine to manage a busy specialty clinic in a rural healthcare setting. Hoping to continue to use my leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and management skills at a facility closer to my leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and management skills at a facility closer to my home.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Office Manager, Pulmonary Clinic
Gibson Area Hospital
Gibson City, IL
05.2021 - Current
- Managing office operations while building a pulmonary practice.
- Created a schedule for the pulmonary practice that included off-site clinics.
- Worked with these other off-site facilities to build the practice, procedures, and work-flow while cultivating a new and beneficial relationship for both parties.
- Monitored and evaluated personnel performance to complete annual reviews, recommend advancement or address productivity concerns.
- Utilized patient feedback to maintain and improve customer satisfaction.
- Analyzed data related to administrative costs to prepare budgets for corporate-level management.
- Managed budgets, maintained expenses, purchasing of all office supplies, clinic supplies, and managed reimbursement from mileage and education.
- Worked weekly with patient financial services for billing of RVU's for physician.
- Daily interaction with patients for results, scheduling, medication maintenance, referrals, and problem solving.
- Worked with all departments within the hospital and organization to build policy and procedures for a new practice.
- Maintained computer and physical filing systems.
REGISTERED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST
Gibson Area Hospital
Gibson City, IL
05.2018 - 05.2021
- Provide excellent care to patients in all settings of the hospital.
- Work with all levels of personnel within the hospital to maintain patient satisfaction.
- Use critical thinking skills to assess patients in the Emergency Room or in-patient setting.
- Provide life-saving measures including intubation, ventilator management, Bipap management, perform arterial blood gas and analysis, basic life support.
- In addition, perform pulmonary function testing, electrocardiograms, assist in stress tests.
- Attend interdisciplinary team meeting daily to give input from a respiratory therapy perspective for each patient in the hospital.
- Maintain credentials and keep up with the ever-changing medical field.
- Maintain membership in the NBRC and AARC.
- Coordinated with physicians and other care team members on care and treatments.
Registered Respiratory Therapist
Advocate BroMenn
Normal, IL
05.2005 - 05.2018
- Provided excellent care to patients in all settings of the hospital including ICU, CVCU, PACU, PCU, Medical and Surgical floors, Acute Rehab, Same Day Surgery, and Emergency Room.
- Attended all code situations, including trauma, code blue, code gray, rapid responses.
- Used critical thinking skills to assess patients in all of the above settings.
- Performed intubation, maintained airways for ventilated patients, manage ventilators, administered Bipap, performed arterial blood gases and provided analysis.
- Also worked in a nursery to provide ventilation to babies in respiratory distress and either stabilize the patient or prepare for transfer.
- Worked closely with all physician groups including cardiology, pulmonology, surgeons, emergency room staff.
- Used leadership skills and interpersonal skills to advocate for patients in a busy hospital setting.
- Performed general respiratory therapy, electrocardiograms, assisted in TEE’s, and cardioversions.
EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST
Country Insurance
Bloomington, IL
11.1993 - 09.1998
- Worked with hiring managers, directors, and administration to advertise, recruit, interview, background check, and hire for all positions in Country Insurance, Illinois Farm Bureau and affiliated companies.
- Attended career fairs in the Midwest to recruit college graduates.
- Attended various social events on behalf of Country Insurance.
- Worked closely with management during times of restructuring to interview and downsize departments when necessary.
Education
ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE - RESPIRATORY CARE
Illinois Central College
05.2006
BACHELOR OF ARTS - ENGLISH
Millikin University
05.1990
Skills
- Managing Operations and Efficiency
- Employee Coaching and Motivation
- Scheduling and Coordinating
- Customer Service
- Policy and Procedure Modification
- Budgetary Planning
- Information Confidentiality
- Performance Tracking and Evaluations
- Payroll Administration
- Medical Billing
Timeline
Office Manager, Pulmonary Clinic
Gibson Area Hospital
05.2021 - Current
REGISTERED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST
Gibson Area Hospital
05.2018 - 05.2021
Registered Respiratory Therapist
Advocate BroMenn
05.2005 - 05.2018
EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST
Country Insurance
11.1993 - 09.1998
ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE - RESPIRATORY CARE
Illinois Central College
BACHELOR OF ARTS - ENGLISH
Millikin University
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