I am a registered nurse and healthcare executive with over 30 years of experience in improving patient safety, experience, and clinical outcomes. I have business acumen and an in-depth understanding of hospital operations, regulatory compliance, and accreditation. My experience is in prehospital and emergency nursing, short-term and long-term acute care hospital administration, consulting, provider practice management, and ambulatory services giving me a diverse and broad knowledge base in both clinical and executive level operations.

Services:

• Medical record review, summary and analysis
• Medical record chronology of relevant facts
• Interpret medical terminology and procedures
• Prepare medical specials
• Identify and recommend potential defendants, key witnesses
• Identify and evaluate potential experts
• Evaluate mechanism of injury
• Assess causation, damages, contributing and/or mitigating factors
• Review case documents, complaints, 622 reports, pleadings and motions
• Understand what is at-issue and the legal strategies used by attorneys
• Prepare for interviews and depositions
• Prepare interview questions, key points
• Attend and report on independent medical examinations (IMEs)
• Assist in the development of Life Care Planning
• Research and integrate relevant medical and nursing literature from authoritative sources in support of the medical facts and issues.

Practice Areas:

• Personal Injury
• Medical malpractice
• Product liability
• Toxic tort
• Workers’ compensation
• Risk management
• Regulatory compliance
• Forensic/criminal
• Medicare set-aside

Education:

• Masters in Healthcare Administration
• Masters in Science of Nursing
• Registered Nurse

Experience:

• Prehospital care
• Emergency department nurse
• Short-term acute and long-term acute care hospital administration
• Hospital quality, safety, and risk mitigation
• Patient flow and Throughput
• Process Improvement
• EMR and data footprint
• Hospital licensure, regulatory compliance, and accreditation standards
• Medical Staff credentialing
• Independent provider practice management
• Ambulatory and outpatient services
• Occupational Health
• Correctional Health

Credentials: 

• MHA
• MSN
• RN
• Legal Nurse Consultant Certified
• CPHQ- pending
• NEA-BC pending