HS4HS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Clinical Performance Leader
Alan Cudney is a clinical performance leader with more than 30 years of expertise in improving care quality and efficiency in acute, post-acute and managed care settings. Alan specializes in case management, clinical transformation, nursing informatics and population health management. A recognized thought leader, he has presented at national and regional conferences and published more than 30 articles.
For over two decades, Andrew has filled leadership and consulting roles in diagnostic operations, marketing and revenue cycle. He has helped health system labs and free-standing laboratory systems successfully introduce new diagnostics while improving the efficiency and profitability of their operations.
Job Titles:
- Services Clinical Consultant
Bill Denton is a surgical services clinical consultant possessing extensive experience in healthcare administration focusing on Surgical Services and other invasive care environments. As a clinician, Bill utilizes his expertise to transform the complex process of identifying and implementing significant operational changes and cost-saving initiatives-oftentimes in the tens of millions of dollars. The OR is where expenses can erode profits if you're not aware of underlying causes, and it's more than just supplies. Supplies can reduce costs, but you can't create a highly functional OR through supplies. It takes grit!
Job Titles:
- Owner of Insight Healthcare Consultants
Dr. Barndt-Maglio is the owner of Insight Healthcare Consultants, with over 40 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She has extensive expertise in effective delivery of patient care, resource management, operational improvement, and planning. Dr. Barndt-Maglio has a strong clinical and operations background having held administrative and clinical positions in several healthcare organizations including community, specialty and academic medical centers.
Chhavi's journey in healthcare started as a Dentist working with underserved communities and transitioned to healthcare management with a focus on process improvement and IT
For over 30 years, Cynthia has lead hospital executives and medical practice leaders in strategic revenue, pricing, budget, financial planning, capital asset review and business development. She has helped both major expansion projects and turn-arounds to succeed beyond expectations.
For 28 years David and his team at Radiology Essentials Solutions Group has provided leadership and guidance in the nation's top Diagnostic Imaging departments across the nation
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Magnet® Commission
Deb Zimmermann, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is the chief clinical officer and principal of Leaders in Care, a company dedicated improving clinical performance in health care settings and creating a healthy work environment for clinicians.
Deepa has over 23 years' experience in regulatory, patient safety, quality and performance improvement at large academic medical Centers
As a registered nurse certified in CPHQ and LSSBB Deepa has held a variety of management roles focused on improving the quality and performance of patient care delivery in different health systems. Deepa has extensive experience in the fields of regulatory requirements and compliance, patient safety, quality and performance improvement. Her experience includes both management and project work at large academic medical centers.
As a consultant who started as a Quality Executive Deepa focuses on advancing quality initiatives through meaningful use of data to support improved decision-making and reduced variability. Her work has generated substantially improved outcomes through the implementation of higher standards of professional practice in different clinical settings.
Dirk has nearly 30 years of healthcare experience including project management, labor productivity infrastructure, process improvement, organizational structure redesign, inventory management and business intelligence / data analytics. He has worked in academic health systems, medical centers and rural hospitals. He has a strong track record of performance improvement.
Douglas Monroe, MD, MBA has helped large systems, academic medical centers and community hospitals align governance, strategy, operations and outcomes with evidence-based clinical excellence, emerging healthcare reimbursement models, market demand and increased risk.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Saband Consulting
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Saband Consulting Inc
- Healthcare Executive
Dr. Patel is a highly regarded healthcare executive known for his ability to manage healthcare operations and lead teams to accomplish dramatic improvements in performance and profitability. With a proven track record of building positive relationships, achieving high standards, and resolving issues collaboratively, he has been the driving force behind successful post-merger outcomes and transformational impact. He has diverse clinical, non-clinical hospital, and medical group experience and is a trusted advisor to senior executive teams, hospital administrations, and medical staff. He is committed to maintaining the highest regulatory compliance standards, quality of care, physician relations, and personnel development.
Dr. Mitesh Patel is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Saband Consulting Inc. Saband Consulting specializes in executive coaching and leadership development to support physician leaders, including Chief Medical Officers, Chiefs of Staff, and others to improve performance and reach their full potential.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Blackbox Healthcare Solutions
With more than 12 years of hospital finance, operations, and leadership experience, Erin is a co-founder of Blackbox Healthcare Solutions.
Jo Wahl is an experienced healthcare leader with a demonstrated history of working in healthcare operations and the management consulting industry. Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Nursing Leadership, Case Management, HIPAA, Patient Safety and Health Information Technology. She has served in many roles working in hospitals, ambulatory care centers and a national consulting firm.
Kevin is a dynamic, results-oriented leader with 20 plus years successful experience providing Revenue Cycle, fiscal, strategic, and operations leadership in uniquely challenging situations.
Dr. Svingen has been helping hospitals and healthcare centers across the nation to achieve top performance in their communities for thirty years. She has helped improve throughput housewide, as well as in Emergency Services. Her work has reduced mortality rates, dramatically cut length of stay while improving patient access, clinical outcomes, staff productivity and morale.
Mark brings over 40 years of experience in healthcare leadership, management and executive coaching. He has helped health systems improve their organization's culture, patient satisfaction and operational metrics including Length of Stay, ED throughput, ER and Acute bed holding and financial performance.
For over two decades Mark served as the CEO of Jefferson Memorial Hospital, and since then has been Vice President of Compirion Healthcare Solutions. He is currently a member of HS4HS and President of Brodeur Consulting.
Spence started in 1978 as a behavioral therapist running programs for the developmentally disabled. Since 1988 he has helped his colleagues in university teaching hospitals, medical centers and clinics across the nation to become the number one performers in their regions in quality, cost, throughput and satisfaction.
Steve has over two decades of experience helping large, nation-wide pathology organizations and mature health systems. He helps executives understand their marketplace, current equipment and performance. Steve then builds and implements collaborative roadmaps that transition laboratories to best practice performance.
Job Titles:
- CEO of Phoenix Medical Management, Inc
Tiffany Ferguson is CEO of Phoenix Medical Management, Inc., the care management company. Tiffany serves on the board for Northern Arizona Gerontology Association and the American College of Physician Advisors (ACPA) Observation Subcommittee. Tiffany is a regular contributor to RACmonitor, Case Management Monthly, and commentator for Finally Friday.