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
