Patricia Galmon

Dynamic and multi-faceted healthcare professional with quantifiable history of improving sterile environments for hospital operating rooms. Demonstrate an ability to manage a team through leadership, employee development, training & mentoring. Proven expertise in identifying and implementing operating procedures that improve accuracy, efficiency, and productivity, resulting in greater physician, nurse, technician, and employee satisfaction.

Aptitude for identifying equipment, malfunctions and improving quality of sterilization.

Director of Sterile Processing at HCA North Florida & Gainesville (2024-12 – Present)

Supervise / Manage/ Consult / Educate facility with 525 Beds + 100 Beds

• Facilitate day to day front line operations
• Increased daily productivity by +200 assembled trays
• Established daily shift communication huddle on all 3 shifts with the department
• Decreased instrument tray turnover from 14 hours to 7 hours
• Daily rounding in ORs for real time feedback on SPD quality of work in order to decrease TOT (Turn Over Time) & FCOTS (First Case On-Time Starts)
• Established Service lines in department to mirror OR service lines
• Established Front Line Team Lead positions within the department
• Established a real On boarding line for new physicians in OR

Interim Director of Sterile Processing at HCA Florida Brandon Hospital (2024-07 – 2024-10)

479 Beds

• Supervise / Manage/ Consult / Educate
• Facilitate day to day front line operations
• Increased daily productivity by +150 assembled trays
• Established daily shift communication huddle on all 3 shifts with the department
• Decreased instrument tray turnover from 14 hours to 7 hours
• Daily routing in ORs for real time feedback on SPD quality of work in order to decrease TOT (Turn Over Time) & FCOTS (First Case On-Time Starts)

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Mission Hospital (2024-02 – 2024-06)

853 Beds

• Supervise / Manage/ Consult / Educate
• Facilitate day to day front line operations
• Union Work Environment Experience
• Employee Engagement Survey
• Immediate Use Sterilization Rate (IUSS) decreased from 1.5%, down to.001% within the last year
• Improvement of First Case On-Time Starts from 78% to 87% within 5 months
• Implemented OR Rounds to 3 times per week – 40 ORs

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital (2023-05 – 2024-02)

404 Beds

• Supervise / Manage/ Consult / Educate
• Facilitate day to day front line operations
• Union Work Environment Experience
• Non Union Work Environment Experience
• Hiring / Firing / Disciplinary Actions
• Troubleshoot in Operating Rooms
• Attend leadership meetings as appointed
• Time & Attendance
• Performance Reviews & Competencies
• Kronos Time Card Systems
• Facility Scheduler System
• Managed Micro System Instrument Tracking System
• Managed Censitrac & SPM Instrument Tracking System
• Impress Instrument Tracking System
• Train & Educate staff members as needed
• Survey Readiness
• Policies updates/improvements/& standardization
• JCAHO Inspection (No findings related to SPD)

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Houston Healthcare West (2021-02 – 2023-05)

302 Beds

• Managed 24 hours department responsibility during the worst winter freeze in Texas
• Water boil mandated process for 2 weeks
• Impress Instrumentation Computer experience
• Managed 24 hour department responsibility during Covid Pandemic
• Supervise/Manage/Consult/Educate
• Facilitate day-to-day front line operations
• Troubleshoot in Operating Rooms
• Time & attendance
• Performance Reviews & Competencies

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Florida Northside Hospital (2020-08 – 2020-12)

288 Beds

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Florida Blake Hospital (2020-03 – 2020-06)

383 Beds

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Florida JFK Medical Center (2020-03 – 2020-03)

486 Beds

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA Florida Kendall Regional Medical Center (2020-01 – 2020-03)

417 Beds

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at Harrison Medical Center (2019-01 – 2019-12)

238 Beds - Traveling Sterile Processing Manager

• Supervise / Manage/ Consult
• Facilitate
• Union Work Environment
• Hiring / Firing / Disciplinary Actions
• Troubleshoot in Operating Rooms
• Attend leadership meetings as appointed
• Time & Attendance
• Performance Reviews & Competencies
• Kronos Time Card Systems
• Managed Micro System Instrument Tracking System
• Managed Censitrac Instrument Tracking System
• Train & Educate staff members as needed
• On-Board New Staff Members
• Planning Committee for over 1 million construction of new Sterile Processing Dept.
• Order instrumentation & supplies needed for SPD department & for support of +32 Operating Rooms
• Survey Readiness
• Policies updates/improvements/& standardization
• JCAHO Inspection 2019 (No findings related to SPD)

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at Tenet, Desert Regional Medical Center (2018-08 – 2019-01)

369 Beds

• Completed mock JCAHO inspection without any findings related to Sterile Processing and support functions there out.
• Environment of Care Rounds: Rounds conducted by outside entity 76% rating in June 2018, 89% rating in October: significantly improvements since Interim Manager has been onsite
• Created "Surgical Instrumentation Loaner Policy" to decrease loaner tray readiness from 79% lateness to current less than 1% loaner tray lateness
• Consistently daily productivity stats for department & surgical services division. Based on surgical trays processed. From 250 trays assembled daily to +600 trays assembled and sterilized daily.
• Surgical tray error rate from 12% error rate to less than 5% surgical tray error rate
• Competencies had not been completed on all SPD Techs since 2016.
• Completed all 100% SPD tech's competencies.
• 15 Full Time Employees
• Decreased SPD late meals and lunch periods taken by SPD Techs from 37% down to 2%
• Decreased SPD over all over time from 25% of budget down to 0 Current stats is showing +95 hours less used in over time!

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA, Regional Medical Center of San Jose (2017-09 – 2018-07)

264 Beds - Traveling Sterile Processing Manager

• Supervise / Manage/ Consult
• Facilitate
• Hiring / Firing / Disciplinary Actions
• Trouble shoot in Operating Rooms
• Attend leadership meetings as appointed
• Time & Attendance
• Performance Reviews & Competencies
• Kronos Time Card Systems
• Managed Micro System Instrument Tracking System
• Train & Educate staff members as needed
• On-Board New Staff Members
• Order instrumentation & supplies needed for SPD department & for support of 32 Operating Rooms
• Survey Readiness
• Policies updates/improvements/& standardization

Interim Manager of Sterile Processing at HCA, Medical City Dallas (2017-01 – 2017-07)

796 Beds

• Completed labeling of +300 loaners trays to avoid delays in surgery while looking for "non-labeled" loaner trays. Cost savings as now we have specific tray name which we can easily identify by the unique tray name
• Implemented Furst Instrumentation Program. (Instrument Program counted & maintained by Medline & SPD Manager, commonly used instruments readily on hand and replaced)
• Set up process for Hot Items moving within the department for re-ordering purposes.
• Decrease onsite instrumentation refurbishment from 4 times visit on a weekly bases to twice a month bases, yielding a $4,000 a month decrease in cost of repairs = to $20,000 cost savings in 4 months.
• Developed on boarding process / orientation for New hires
• Re-defined department Productivity measure for HCA, Finally meeting productivity; under budget as per

High School Diploma