Experienced in leading mission-driven initiatives, strategic
decision-making, and organizational development to enhance
community impact. Skilled in fostering relationships, ethical
discernment, and staff leadership while driving innovative
programs and partnerships. Bringing expertise, high energy and
a personable approach to community networking and values
based leadership to support organizational goals.
· Leading mission, spiritual care, ethics, community benefit, volunteers.
· Founded the "Ethics Huddle" which became a system best practice.
· Developed programs to meet Associate needs for a crisis or celebration.
· Worked on System team to establish Living Our Values attributes.
· Started Community Advisory Council for social determinants of health.
· Strengthened relationships with the Bishop, Diocese and local Vicariate.
· Regional leader for $15M Texas 1115 Medicaid Waiver (DSRIP) projects.
· Established first embedded FQHC in a Catholic hospital in Texas.
· Participation in many executive leadership strategic priorities.
· Started and chaired the Sponsorship Committee for community events.
Leadership for Community Benefit Schedule H/990 reporting.
· Leadership in creating and implementing mission/spiritual care projects.
· Founded "Texarkana Community Dental Clinic" for the underserved.
· Awarded Delta Dental grant to provide supplies for charity clinic.
· Chaired first Dental Texas Mission of Mercy to come to Texarkana.
· Achieved $186,000 grant to serve behavioral health patients.
· Achieved funding for $1.8 million Medicaid Grant: "Kid's Care Collaboration."
· Oversight of regional ethics committee and case consultation team.
· Designed first regional dashboard to track community value metrics.
Lead Associate & Physician Orientations in Mission Integration.
· Developed a small real estate investing company.
· Featured personally in two national infomercials for success in "flipping" houses.
· Grew profits with creative investing techniques and aggressive marketing.
· Experienced in screening investment potential, negotiation of contracts, presentations and closing sales.
Supervised and motivated teams of independent contractors of diverse cultures.
· Integration of mission and values into all policies, projects and programs.
· Leadership in ethics, diversity, service excellence; 2 JCAHO inspections.
· Promoted to mission responsibility over a second hospital within one year.
· Strategic positioning and leadership in community outreach/ministry.
· Developed system wide process for advanced medical directives response.
· Founded "Well Baby Program" in strategic partnership with county officials.
Trained employees in mission, values, corporate compliance and HIPAA.
· Provided leadership for system-wide process to rewrite mission statement.
· Conducted organizational culture assessments for due diligence in acquiring another hospital.
· Strategic planning for system-wide funding of community health programs.
· Certified in CQI Principles and Tools; taught CQI to managers.
· System Level HMO "Care Choice" Reconsideration Board member.
Project Leader: "Viability of Complementary Alternative Therapy in Elder Care."
· Thesis: "Implementing Adolescent Care: Organizational Challenges."
· Research, data analysis, literature review, surveys, program evaluation.
Project Leader: "Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS)."
· Trained physicians to understand the cultural needs of diverse underserved patient populations in Chicago.
· Co-developed policy handbooks for both staff and client families.
Resulted in summer employment as paid consultant to the director.
· Surveyed village health and implemented grassroots health care programs in Tanzania.
· Developed micro-economic projects to sustain health care programs and families.
· Led training experiences in tropical medicine for Cornell medical students.
· Taught English to street children in a UNICEF Center.
Served in a Rwandan war UNHCR camp with Jesuit Relief Services.
Board work:
Chair, Beaumont Salvation Army Advisory Board; Treasurer, Golden Triangle Minority Business Council; Vice Chair, Family Services of Southeast Texas; Allocations Committee, United Way of Beaumont Board; Board Member, United Way of Orange; President, Anayat House Board of Directors; Board Member, Southeast Texas Nonprofit Development Center; Advisory Board Member, Legacy Community Health (FQHC); Board Member, Birthright; SETX Emergency Fund (FEMA) Allocations Committee; Member, Diocese Respect Life Committee.