Denise delivers leadership solutions for Medical-Surgical Services

Denise and her Transitional Leadership team seamlessly and efficiently deliver the immediate, short and long-term outcomes that meet the specialized needs of hospitals.

Strengths
Denise’s strengths include her passion for executive mentoring and coaching, team-building skills, with emphasis in Emergency Services and Acute Care. Denise has demonstrated positive outcomes with hospital’s throughput, reduced vacancy rates and performance improvement.

Background

• Served healthcare organizations ranging from 180-500 beds
• Experienced nursing leader with more than 18 years of nursing and administrative experience
• Reduced vacancy rates among service line
• Increase market share
• Successful transitional leader for Level I Trauma Center

Facilities

• Led Center’s of Excellence service line for world-renowned multi-hospital system
• University Level 1 Trauma Center with high-acuity patient population
• Community hospital with successful ED diversion strategies

Accomplishments (included but not limited to)

• Directed and implemented diversion free initiatives that increased market share; 5% ED Volume and 5% Inpatient Volume increases
• Proven Leader of dynamic and varied teams with expertise in maintaining identified labor and productivity targets
• Reorganized and developed Internal Medicine operations infrastructure resulting in maximum efficiency
• Developed and implemented comprehensive recruiting initiatives that resulted in RN retention
• Hired 80 RN’s into the Internal Medicine Division in 12 months reducing the vacancy rate from 80% to 20% within service line
• Project Lead for initiation of a Medical Admission Express Unit to facilitate patient flow and increase overall quality core measure
• Instrumental in community hospital ED expansion project increasing number of visits from 48K to 52K
• Increased inpatient volume by expanding medical surgical bed capacity and maximizing patient throughput