Fred Fehlinger In Remembrance

Experience

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  Wyoming Valley Health Care System, Inc.

  Jun 1996 - Feb 2004

  Performance Improvement Coordinator
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  Ashland Regional Medical Center

  Feb 2004 - Apr 2006

  Director of Quality Resource Management

  Administrative lead for eleven disciplines in a rural community hospital. Implemented CRM strategy exceeding assigned goals

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  Blue Mountain Health System

  May 2004 - Mar 2007

  Administrative Supervisor

  Nursing supervisor for a busy community acute care hospital with long term care.

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  Good Sumaritan Regional Medical Center

  Apr 2006 - May 2007

  Director of Quality & Risk Management

  Operationalized on-line event reporting with concurrent risk communications via STARS application significantly reducing delays in managing incident follow-up and mandatory reporting. Engineered department level presentation of performance improvement activities directly to the Performance Improvement Council. Facility leads for Joint Commission and PADOH survey coordination, incident investigation/response and periodic performance review.

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  Community Health Systems

  May 2007 - Oct 2017

  Regional Director of Survey Readiness/Quality

  • Subject matter expert for quality, regulatory & accreditation for affiliated hospital systems. Author/Presenter of survey readiness and response tools - CMS, DOH, TJC,HFAP, and OSHA. Multi-state on-site survey preparedness reviewer and consultant. TJC readiness support for multiple TJC programs (BHC, HAP, CAH, LTC, and Addiction). Regional facilitator for quality program development and resource management.

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  Commonwealth Health

  Oct 2017 - Jun 2020

  Market CQO Moses Taylor & Regional Hospital of Scranton

  • Leader for facility efforts related to COVID-19 preparation, response and recovery. Champion for network-wide efforts to improve CMS 5-Star and Leapfrog ratings. TJC, DOH, OSHA and CMS resource for network hospitals. Executive leader for market emergency preparedness, performance improvement, risk management, infection prevention, patient safety and patient experience. Transformed from patient advocacy program to patient experience model. Interim administrator for large multi-level ambulance affiliate serving six counties. Show less

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  Fehlinger Healthcare Consulting

  Aug 2020 - now

  President

  • Consultant and resource for Conditions of Participation, Conditions of Coverage, Joint Commission (AHC, HAP, CAH, BHC, HH, OTP ), DNV, and AAAHC servicing public and governmental organizations. Expertise in case management, accreditation, disease-specific, certification, plans of correction, and adverse accreditation decision remediation.

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  Nash Healthcare Consulting

  Aug 2020 - now

  Healthcare Consultant
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  Patton Healthcare Consulting, Inc.

  Apr 2021 - now

  Healthcare Consultant
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  Barrins & Associates

  May 2021 - now

  Healthcare Consultant