EDUCATION
2019
M.B.A., DE SALES UNIVERSITY
Center Valley, PA
2009
M.S.N., LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
Philadelphia, PA
1998
B.S.N., CEDAR CREST COLLEGE
Allentown, PA
1998
U.S. ARMY R.O.T.C. COMMISSION, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Bethlehem, PA
1995
A.S., CUESTA COLLEGE
San Luis Obispo, CA
1989
U.S. ARMY, SIGNAL SCHOOL, 29Y – Y1, SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS CONTOLLER
Fort Gordon/Augusta, GA
EXPERIENCE
JUNE 2017 - AUGUST 2021
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, SELECT SPECIALTY HOSPITAL
Executed substantial, daily hands-on leadership, strategic direction and 24 – 7 operations management with a focus on business development, exceptional quality patient care, physician group relations, and fiscal accountability for a 40 – bed acute care hospital. Managed 140+ personnel, including nine executive and director – level managers. Savannah, GA.
JANUARY 2012 - APRIL 2017
SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR, GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK
Set high-quality clinical priorities and provided daily administrative functions (admissions processing, staffing, best – practice, budgeting, and policy and procedure) for the long-term acute care hospital division. Managed six direct reports and approximately 115 employees. Bethlehem, PA.
NOVEMBER 2008 - DECEMBER 2011
DIRECTOR OF NURSING, GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK
Directed the clinical operations of a 32-bed, mixed cardio-pulmonary Long-Term Acute Care Hospital staffed by 75 nursing personnel. Bethlehem, PA.
MAY 2006 - OCTOBER 2008
STAFF NURSE, CRITICAL CARE FLOAT, LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL NETWORK
Provided nursing care for 1-3 adult intensive care patients, or 5-6 adult medical surgical patients, on varying units of assignment, including the emergency room. Allentown, PA.
OCTOBER 2003 - APRIL 2006
NURSE MANAGER, GOODSHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK
Managed nursing staff and on-call coverage, for 51 full and part-time
staff, on a 28-bed, mixed pulmonary/medical - surgical Long - Term Acute Care Hospital. Allentown, PA.
OCTOBER 1998 - SEPTEMBER 2003
NURSE CORPS OFFICER, UNITED STATES ARMY
Combat veteran - 28th Combat Support Hospital, Camp Dogwood, Iraq; U.S. Pentagon Attack response team– Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington D.C.
Delivered cardiac/surgical/trauma/burn ICU care to U.S. soldiers, general services employees, statesmen, world ambassadors, Iraqi civilians, and enemy prisoners of war at various posts both stateside and abroad.
OCTOBER 1989 - MAY 1995
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER, UNITED STATES ARMY SPACE COMMAND
Commanded and monitored communications and flight functions of geosynchronous spacecraft orbiting earth alongside GE Astro-space civilians, NSA officials, military officers and enlisted soldiers. Camp Roberts/San Miguel, CA.
SKILLS
• Chaired QAPI committee and achieved national recognition as a Hospital of Excellence in 2019 and earned a National Quality Award, 2020.
• Enhanced Savannah hospital EBITA. Achieved as much as 16% over budgeted expectation for consecutive years. Demonstrated partnership ROI - optimized patient throughput to eliminate millions of dollars in expense by reducing impact days. Replicated savings at five hospitals.
• Directed leadership team in implementation of the EPIC EMR in 2020.
• Decreased expenses related to pharmacy (over $30 PPD), central supply (over $30 PPD), and hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracted labor and nursing incremental overtime hours.
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