Thomas Bleasdale MD
Rolling Meadows,IL
Summary
Exceptional skills in developing programs tailored toward improved quality, patient outcomes/experience, and cost savings. Talented relationship-builder, problem-solver and leader with accomplished tenure in in both clinical and administrative medicine.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Governor-Elect Illinois Northern Chapter of ACP
American College Of Physicians
10.2023 - Current
- Maintain a local governance structure consisting of a Governor’s Advisory Council and appropriate committees .
- Promote DEI training as a cornerstone to Health Equity by recognizing social and racial determinants of health as a leading barrier to improved population health.
- Involve the chapter in state/national legislative and policy initiatives.
- Champion for improved patient care, medical education, health care policy, public issues and College policy.
- Managing council and committee leadership, general state membership and Chapter membership engagement. Oversight and management of chapter administrative staff.
Medical Director of Medical Services and Quality
Northwest Community Hospital
01.2021 - Current
- Liaison between clinical staff, Medical Staff leadership and Hospital Administration.
- Designed and implemented protocols and clinical policies that positively impacted patient health outcomes, quality metrics and cost of care.
- Designed and implemented the hospital wide use of Epic Secure Chat to improve communication between providers, improving hospital communication scores, patient experience metrics and utilization metrics.
- Integral member of multiple Endeavor Health, system-level committees and collaboratives designed to integrate the individual healthcare organizations, while promoting aggressive improvements in population health, quality management, health equity and access to care.
- Oversee departmental Quality Improvement and Peer Review processes for the Medical Quality committees.
- Personally addressed occurrences of professionalism and clinical conduct on the part of the medical staff that fostered individuals improvement and an improved culture of safety.
- Partner with Chief Quality Officer on improved oversight for OPPE/FPPE for the medical specialties to comply with TJC standards.
- Work closely with Medical Staff office leadership regarding credentialing and privileging. Serve as an Ad-Hoc member of the Credentialing committee and the Medical Executive Committee .
- Oversee Departmental order set renewal and vetting to comply with TJC regulations.
Physician
Endeavor Health, Northwest Community Healthcare
04.2017 - Current
- 20+ years of direct patient care involving areas of education, in-patient and out-patient medicine.
- Private practitioner group board member including leading merger of multiple independent groups.
- Extensive clinical experiences providing the ability to bridge the gap of a diverse medical staff and the administration.
Education
Internal Medicine
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine. Rush Med.
Chicago, IL2002
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency, Rush Medical College
Chicago, IL2001
M.D. - Medicine
Rush Medical College
Chicago06.1998
Bachelor of Science -
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst, IL1993
Skills
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Policy Development
- Effective Communication
Accomplishments
Fellow in the American College of Physicians
Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2001- Present
Medical License State of Illinois
chairperson, opioid stewardship committee, northwest community hospital
Founder and leader of the Opioid Stewardship Committee at NCH leading safe prescribing practices across the hospital and Endeavor System. Implemented standards for statutory limitations on discharge prescription length. Collected data and improved percentage of patients discharged on high dose or long acting opioids. Reduced number of patients discharged on an opioid and a co-prescribed benzodiazepine. Implemented a hospital wide policy of co-prescribing naloxone with high dose opioids or opioids and benzodiazepine prescriptions both in the in-patient and out-patient settings. Oversaw the implementation an Epic Opioid risk tool utilizing AI to help calculate risk of Opioid Use Disorder and adverse events related to opioids. Currently part of a system wide initiative for safe prescribing of opioids including the initiation of a system wide opioid pain agreement allowing for improvement of best practices for patients with long term opioid needs based on the 2022 CDC updated guidelines.
chairperson, cme committee, northwest community hospital
Chaired committee dedicated to continued learning opportunities for the medical staff as a whole. Oversaw the development of programs and the continued accreditation of the hospital educational endeavors allowing for improved and continued educational opportunities.
Timeline
Governor-Elect Illinois Northern Chapter of ACP
American College Of Physicians
10.2023 - Current
Medical Director of Medical Services and Quality
Northwest Community Hospital
01.2021 - Current
Physician
Endeavor Health, Northwest Community Healthcare
04.2017 - Current
Internal Medicine
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine. Rush Med.
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency, Rush Medical College
M.D. - Medicine
Rush Medical College
Bachelor of Science -
Elmhurst College
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2001- Present
Medical License State of Illinois
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