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Virginia J. Summers

Virginia J. Summers

Lexington

Summary

Dynamic healthcare leader with extensive experience at HCA Healthcare, driving successful clinical system implementations and optimizing workflows. Proven expertise in project management and strategic planning, enhancing team performance and achieving Meaningful Use compliance. Adept at training and developing staff while fostering collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

LRHC: CIC/DCI/Director MedSurg/ICU

HCA Healthcare
Lexington
07.2019 - Current

CIC/DCI:

  • Served as the facility project lead for various clinical system implementations.
  • Contributed innovative ideas and solutions to enhance team performance and outcomes.
  • Conducted workflow analysis sessions to identify opportunities for process improvement.
  • Collaborated with clinicians to optimize order sets and utilization.
  • Designed and implemented policies and procedures to support the appropriate use of clinical systems.
  • Identified opportunities for improved processes through workflow analysis and data modeling techniques.

Director, Med Surg/ICU:

  • Director of 40+ employees; oversight and leadership of unit operations.
  • Simultaneously, the Facility Clinical Lead for the August 2019 Advanced Clinicals implementation.

Clinical Consultant

Leidos Healthcare
Indianapolis
05.2011 - 05.2019

Hospital Sisters Health System: PCS/EDM Consultant

· Build, maintenance and support of PCS and EDM modules across 10 facilities.

· Supported User Provisioning for multiple sites

· Assisted with OM/POM, RXM, EMR, and ITS support

· Worked closely with informatics to develop and support system documentation and create training materials

· Supported all facilities and modules while On Call

· Developed Knowledge Transfer Workbooks for PCS and EDM modules

CPOE Analyst/Project Manager

Morehead Memorial Hospital
01.2013 - 10.2013
  • Project Manager and Team Lead for Magic CPOE implementation
  • Created Project Charter and Project Plan
  • Guided project team in organization, prioritization, and distribution of work
  • Monitored project plan key dates to ensure deadlines met
  • Provided weekly status report to CIO
  • Worked closely with CIO/Leadership to ensure overall strategic goals met
  • Developed training plan, parallel plan, and go live plan
  • Created Issues Log, monitored status, and updated
  • Lead Core Team and CPOE Steering Committee meetings
  • Organized project documents into a shared network team folder
  • Facilitated Current State and Future State Workflow Analysis sessions; created Gap Analysis/Workflow Visio diagrams
  • Built Order Sets and dictionaries
  • Provided focused task lists for optimization of dictionaries for MU Stage II compliance
  • Worked with physicians to facilitate order set creation
  • Created and submitted training materials to site
  • Facilitated training of super-users, physicians, and physician assistants
  • Provided Go Live Checklist to facility
  • Supported providers and staff through a successful Go Live.
  • Provided eMAR/BMV training materials, project plan, parameter guides, and CDS examples to site

Nursing Consultant

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
05.2011 - 12.2012
  • MEDITECH Clinical Lead for successful Magic 5.6.4 eMAR/BMV implementation
  • Created eMAR/BMV project plan and monitored progress toward deadlines
  • Assisted facility with workflow analysis, configuration, and testing
  • Developed eMAR/BMV training plan and created training documents
  • Facilitated eMAR/BMV Super-User (Train the Trainer) sessions
  • Provided Go Live and Post-Go Live Support
  • Evaluation of eMAR/BMV reports, feedback to leadership, and issue resolution
  • Enhanced NUR database for Meaningful Use and Core Measure compliance
  • Facility IT representative for Ascension Health EHR Skin Assessment Metrics group
  • Created Skin Assessment screen, for market use, to meet KPI’s
  • Assessment of NUR and OM database to integrate and reduce duplicate documentation
  • Assisted with MU stage I system analysis/provided recommendations for optimization
  • Team member for CPOE/PDOC implementation

Clinical Consultant I

HCA
07.2010 - 05.2011
  • MEDITECH 6.0.6 PCS/OM Team Lead for Capella multi-facility (8) implementation
  • Participated in FRMC Expanse/6.0.6 Alpha pilot and Go Live
  • Facilitated activities of a 7 member team through organization, prioritization, and distribution of work
  • Collaborated with Meditech partners throughout implementation process
  • Assisted PMO with development of the project charter and plan
  • Coordinated Webex pre-design training sessions
  • Lead PCS and OM design calls with Facility Module Leads from 8 facilities
  • Engaged all 8 facilities in creating a standardized design for the enterprise
  • Compiled and organized all design decisions into build plan for PCS and OM
  • Coordinated build assignments for 7 PCS/OM team members
  • Built MEDITECH PCS and OM Expanse/6.0.6 system, adhering to CMS Standards Processes
  • Utilized Zynx software to implement Evidence-Based order sets.
  • Created PCS rules and incorporated into build for enhanced system performance
  • Collaborated with Education Department to develop PCS training materials
  • Conducted implementation readiness assessment including workflow risk/reward
  • EDM/PCM/CPOE team member. Assisted with planning, design, build, and testing.
  • Developed CMS requirements document and submitted to MIS team for execution
  • Collaborated with MIS team regarding menus and access

Senior Clinical Analyst Midwest Division

HCA Information Technology & Services
05.2007 - 07.2010
  • Clinical Analyst in support of 8 Magic Midwest Division facilities
  • Monitored Help Desk tickets through resolution and provided On-Call support for division
  • Facility Analyst for Lafayette Regional Health Center (25 bed Critical Access hospital with approximately 35 providers) and Centerpoint Medical Center (220 bed Level II trauma center)
  • Instrumental in building MEDITECH 5.6.4 NUR, EDM, OE, MIS system and enhancing to meet MEANINGFUL USE stage I requirements
  • Proficient in NUR/OE/PCI/EDM/eMAR/eTAR/MIS
  • Physician Support Coordinator (LRHC only) responsible for build and training of approximately 35 physicians and 60 office staff
  • Proficient in building customer defined screens, dictionary build/maintenance, user access and menus
  • Experienced in application testing, preparing roll-out plans, creating training materials, hands-on training, and post-implementation support for MEDITECH
  • Fluent in various systems including Meditech, Genus MD, Patient-Keeper Portal, T-Systems, McKesson PACS, Clinical Pharmacology, Iatric VFS, and Up-to-date
  • Responsible for completion of the HIPAA PCI Appropriate Access Audits every quarter

Patient Services Information Systems Coordinator/FISO

HCA – Lafayette Regional Health Center
07.2005 - 05.2007
  • Coordinated all clinical and technical IT related projects
  • Facility Project Manager for Magic Meditech Implementation
  • Responsible for NUR/OE/PCI system build and maintenance, physician build, physician/staff training
  • Document Advisory Committee Chairman
  • Worked closely with administration (CEO, CFO, CNO) to ensure IT needs were met
  • Assisted facility educator with development of MEDITECH training tools and plans
  • Worked closely with Quality Director to ensure regulatory compliance within nursing documentation
  • Assisted CNO with policy and procedure development
  • Completed Job Role Matrix for IT&S
  • Assisted with Strategic Planning Initiatives
  • Participated in Department Manager meetings to keep peers current on IT&S initiatives
  • Worked closely with facility executives to ensure overall information security goals met
  • Developed and instituted a Security Awareness Program to promote HIPAA compliance by educating staff on system security and patient confidentiality
  • Created the Facility Security Awareness Plan, Network Data Protection Plan, Departmental Security Plan, Disaster Recovery Plan, and all associated policies and procedures for security compliance.
  • Conducted quarterly Appropriate Access Audits
  • Communicated/enforced corporate and facility Information Security Policies/Procedures
  • Chairman of Facility Security Committee and member of Multi-Facility Security Committee

Facility Project Manager and NUR/OE/PCI Core Team Lead

Lafayette Regional Health Center
03.2002 - 07.2005
  • Lead Lafayette Regional Health Center to a successful Meditech Magic Go-Live
  • Assisted in coordinating Parallel and Go-Live Plans
  • Facilitated all Core Team Lead positions and monitored progress
  • Monitored project time-lines and Core Team Lead training plans
  • Organized and directed core team meetings
  • Participated in module build sessions/built facility specific dictionaries
  • Worked with executive team to ensure project goals met
  • Coordinated hardware and training room set-up
  • Coordinated all physician and nurse end-user training
  • Supervised COC/EH/Swingbed during implementation

Director, Outpatient Clinic

Carroll County Memorial Hospital
10.2001 - 03.2002

Shift Supervisor, Med-Surgical/ICU

Lafayette Regional Health Center
04.1998 - 10.2001

Staff Nurse, Medical-Surgical/ICU

Lafayette Regional Health Center
01.1996 - 04.1998

Education

Master’s in Business Administration -

Missouri Baptist University

Bachelor of Science-Nursing -

University of Missouri-Columbia

Skills

  • Facility lead for multiple recent implementations
  • Expanse/Client Server/Magic consultant/analyst/system build/support/maintenance
  • Expanse PCS/OM Team Lead and PCM team member for 9-facility enterprise implementation
  • Facility Project Coordinator and NUR/OM/PCI Facility Lead for 9 facility Magic installation
  • Consultant/Clinical Lead for 3 Facility Magic PCM Suite implementation
  • Project Manager for Magic CPOE Implementation, CPOE analyst
  • Project Manager/Clinical Lead for Magic eMAR/BMV implementation
  • Leadership/Strategic Planning
  • Planning/Design/Workflow Analysis/Change Management
  • System Analysis and Optimization
  • Testing Coordinator
  • Training Coordinator
  • Meaningful Use/Quality Review/Promoting Interoperability/Leapfrog

Certification

  • ACLS
  • BLS

Professional References

  • Kaye Rahn, (HCA) ITG Consulting Product Analyst, 816-674-8046, Kaye.Rahn@hcahealthcare.com
  • James Bockmon, (HCA) Director ITG Lab Service Line, 816-506-7207, James.Bockmon@hcahealthcare.com

Timeline

LRHC: CIC/DCI/Director MedSurg/ICU

HCA Healthcare
07.2019 - Current

CPOE Analyst/Project Manager

Morehead Memorial Hospital
01.2013 - 10.2013

Clinical Consultant

Leidos Healthcare
05.2011 - 05.2019

Nursing Consultant

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
05.2011 - 12.2012

Clinical Consultant I

HCA
07.2010 - 05.2011

Senior Clinical Analyst Midwest Division

HCA Information Technology & Services
05.2007 - 07.2010

Patient Services Information Systems Coordinator/FISO

HCA – Lafayette Regional Health Center
07.2005 - 05.2007

Facility Project Manager and NUR/OE/PCI Core Team Lead

Lafayette Regional Health Center
03.2002 - 07.2005

Director, Outpatient Clinic

Carroll County Memorial Hospital
10.2001 - 03.2002

Shift Supervisor, Med-Surgical/ICU

Lafayette Regional Health Center
04.1998 - 10.2001

Staff Nurse, Medical-Surgical/ICU

Lafayette Regional Health Center
01.1996 - 04.1998

Master’s in Business Administration -

Missouri Baptist University

Bachelor of Science-Nursing -

University of Missouri-Columbia
Virginia J. Summers