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Wallis Elizabeth Davies

Chattanooga,TN

Summary

Driven healthcare professional with more than 30 years of management experience in hospitals and physician practices. Successfully transitioned into healthcare IT with proven leadership, innovation, and ability to succeed. Skilled in understanding physician relationships and ensuring excellent customer service. Adept at cultivating key relationships within all levels of an organization.

Overview

41
41
years of professional experience

Work History

Galen Medical Group - Jun 2015 to Dec 2024

Chief Quality Assurance Officer
01.2022 - 12.2024

Galen Medical Group: A multispeciality, physician owned, medical practice with 160 providers and 31 locations.

  • Reported to CEO to provide quality assurance, process and systems evaluation and ensure optimal system performance throughout the organization.
  • Monitored quality standards and pertinent statistical data to determine areas requiring improvement.
  • Prepared quality documents and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, corrective actions and re-validations.
  • Responsible for resolving all patient complaints. Enhanced patient satisfaction by swiftly and successfully addressing concerns and providing solutions.
  • Created APP Collaborative Agreements and Protocols to meet all state requirements. Ensured 100% company wide compliance.
  • Served as primary contact for SVMIC legal cases.
  • Successfully identified, reported and coordinated 3 fraudulent prescription drug investigations with DEA, FBI and local law enforcement.
  • Redesigned clinical workflows to increase revenue. Improved reimbursement rates for injections and immunizations by 90%.

EMR Provider Liason

Galen Medical Group
05.2017 - 01.2022
  • Reported to CIO to provide ongoing support to 160 physicians and APP's for any EMR related issues.
  • Designed, built and customized all clinical templates to be used in the EMR
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, sharing insights with colleagues to drive continuous improvement efforts.
  • Proactively identified potential challenges or roadblocks within projects, formulating contingency plans to ensure success.
  • Aided in the development of training materials, contributing to the ongoing education of team members and improved performance outcomes.
  • Trained and provided on site support for 15 new providers.
  • Coordinated all go-live functions for newly acquired practices.
  • Researched and implemented new tools to improve provider efficiencies including Abridge AI for clinical documentation.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for EMR vendor PCIS.
  • Coordinated multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion and alignment with organizational objectives.


EMR Implementation and Training Coordinator

Galen Medical Group
06.2015 - 05.2017
  • Responsible for implementing and training all physicians and clinical staff on the Electronic Medical Record.
  • Managed EMR Go Lives for 54 providers at 15 different locations. Facilitated classes and trained over 365 clinical staff since 8/10/2016.
  • Created all documentation templates to meet the needs of each Galen provider, quality payment plans and all government regulatory standards.
  • Provide ongoing training and development of all documents utilized to educate Galen physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and certified nurse assistants.
  • Implemented a new bar code scanning system for documenting vaccines and immunizations in the EMR.
  • Assisted all providers with certification for electronic prescribing of controlled substances in the EMR as mandated by the state of Tennessee.
  • Provide ongoing customer support to all offices, providers and clinical staff with the management of help desk tickets and phone calls.

Clinical Application Specialist

General Electric Healthcare IT
06.2012 - 02.2015

Healthcare IT: A division of General Electric provides global integrated care solutions across the healthcare system enabling better clinical and financial outcomes.

  • Implemented and trained physicians and clinical staff on Centricity Perioperative Manager and Centricity Perioperative Anesthesia Products in surgical and ambulatory care areas.
  • Developed and maintained new tools and documents to advance the training and implementation practices for internal teams and external customers.
  • Maintained 100% customer satisfaction survey scores on all account training provided both remote and on-site.
  • Recognized nationally by management as a team member who had made significant contributions to the Perioperative Team.

Child Life and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Manager

Erlanger Health System
11.2006 - 02.2012

Erlanger Health System: A non-profit academic teaching hospital associated with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and comprised of five medical campuses.

  • Reporting directly to the hospital administrator, supervised all daily operations of the department including support for a physician and 7 additional FTE's.
  • Oversaw all aspects of the conversion from dental practice to medical practice and managed operating budget of over $400K.
  • Supported a pediatric dental practice of more than 2,000 patients annually.
  • Promoted excellent customer service as the liaison between the local school system, hospital and Ronald McDonald House.
  • Negotiated hospital and Medicaid contracts for dental services.

    Child Life Director

    Erlanger Health System
    09.1993 - 02.2012
    • Supervised a clinical staff of 6 Certified Child Life Specialists and managed daily operations of the Child Life Department while maintaining own clinical practice as a Certified Child Life Specialist.
    • Oversaw an operating budget of $250K and secured outside funding to assist with departmental programming needs.
    • Strategically recruited and trained staff - increased staff by 300% to meet national standard for patient staff ratios.
    • Established and facilitated Parent Advisory Council to improve overall patient experience and improve customer satisfaction scores.
    • Implemented mandatory education for medical and nursing staff focusing on the unique needs of the pediatric patient.
    • Negotiated hospital contracts for department and authored all departmental policies.
    • Raised $200K to design and build an outdoor roof garden for patient use.
    • Marketed hospital as spokesperson with media coverage in print, radio, social networking and TV.

    Site Supervisor for Child Health Students

    Purdue University
    01.1984 - 09.1993

    Child Life Specialist

    Home Hospital
    01.1984 - 09.1993

    Education

    Master of Science

    Purdue University
    West Lafayette, Indiana
    1991

    Bachelor of Science

    University of Alabama
    Tuscaloosa, Alabama
    1983

    Timeline

    Galen Medical Group - Jun 2015 to Dec 2024

    Chief Quality Assurance Officer
    01.2022 - 12.2024

    EMR Provider Liason

    Galen Medical Group
    05.2017 - 01.2022

    EMR Implementation and Training Coordinator

    Galen Medical Group
    06.2015 - 05.2017

    Clinical Application Specialist

    General Electric Healthcare IT
    06.2012 - 02.2015

    Child Life and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Manager

    Erlanger Health System
    11.2006 - 02.2012

    Child Life Director

    Erlanger Health System
    09.1993 - 02.2012

    Site Supervisor for Child Health Students

    Purdue University
    01.1984 - 09.1993

    Child Life Specialist

    Home Hospital
    01.1984 - 09.1993

    Master of Science

    Purdue University

    Bachelor of Science

    University of Alabama
    Wallis Elizabeth Davies