Kari Abbott

Experience

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  Allina Health

  Apr 1996 - Sept 2003

  Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse

  Women’s and children’s unit. Charge as well as staff nurse. Quality patient care of newborn through end of life. Patient/physical relations along with physician/nurse relations. Preceptor for new employees. Unit and hospital wide councils on quality patient care and nursing practices. Point person for new computerized charting.

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  Parker Hughes Cancer Center

  Sept 2003 - Apr 2004

  Staff Nurse

  Quality patient care in a clinic setting. Triage calls, patient health assessments, treatment and IV infusions

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  Allina Health

  Apr 2004 - Aug 2021

  Overall responsibility for physician relationships within the hospital including both employed and contracted physicians. Responsible for the operational oversight of the Podiatry Residency program and the first year medical student rotation. Develop contracts for new medical services needed within the hospital, working closely with the corporate legal team to meet compliance. Work closely with the Vice President of Medical Affairs to ensure the needs of the physicians and hospital is in alignment. Responsible for insuring that patient quality and satisfaction goals are achieved through program and process development. Responsible for the all duties of the Program Manager of Hospital Based Clinics and as the Contract Administrator for Mercy Hospital. Show less Overall responsibility for physician relationships within the hospital including both employed and contracted physicians. Responsible for the operational oversight of the Podiatry Residency program and the first year medical student rotation. Develop contracts for new medical services needed within the hospital, working closely with the corporate legal team to meet compliance. Work closely with the Vice President of Medical Affairs to ensure the needs of the physicians and hospital is in alignment. Responsible for insuring that patient quality and satisfaction goals are achieved through program and process development. Responsible for the all duties of the Program Manager of Hospital Based Clinics and as the Contract Administrator for Mercy Hospital. Show less Day to day operations of 5 hospital based clinic departments consisting of 40 providers and 5 nurses. Duties included including recruitment/hiring/discipline/termination and annual reviews of staff, budgeting and monitoring financial health of departments, multiple committees, close collaboration with lead physicians and medical directors, process improvement, change management, and program development. Insuring that patient quality and satisfaction goals are met. Contract Administrator for Mercy Hospital Show less Support of the oncology, pregnancy, and pediatric service lines in day to day activities, ensuring timely and accurate communication to key stakeholders around process improvement, facilitate and coordinate work toward standardized approaches, collaborate with key leaders to develop regular service line program meetings, lead support staff meetings, participate in the Patient Advisory Councils, assigning of ICD-9 codes to appropriate service lines, prepare monthly update reports on the activities of the service line programs for senior level staff, develop strong working relationship with key individuals within the organization to identify opportunities to improve patient care, assist operational leaders as needed on various projects Show less Manage claims, potential claims and suits to minimize financial consequences, disclose and manage unanticipated outcomes to the satisfaction of injured party/family and corporate claims management, Conduct Root Cause Analysis or FMEA’s on all Sentinel Events and selected near misses to determine factors impacting the event, and ameliorate risk, Maintain Corrective Action Plans, and audits to determine if the Corrective Action Plan is working, assess risk and liability potential and develop strategies to prevent and/or reduce risk and liability that may result in injuries to patients, visitors and staff, investigate and collect all pertinent information, documents, and evidence for Senior Risk Manager and/or defense attorneys, interview staff, collect policies and procedures, answer interrogatories and set up depositions with staff members, evaluate incident response to clinical areas for continuous improvement, assist in evaluation of clinical procedures and operational policies to determine appropriateness, develop, communicate, monitor, evaluate, and improve assigned Risk Management Program components and tasks related to regulatory and facility requirements, report required incidents to the appropriate regulatory body. Show less

  • Director Physician Services

    Jan 2013 - Aug 2021

  • Interim Director of Physician Services

    Mar 2012 - Jan 2013

  • Program Manager - Hospital Based Clinics

    Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

  • Program Manager - Clinical Service Lines

    Feb 2010 - Jan 2011

  • Manager of Risk and Patient Safety

    Jul 2007 - Feb 2010

  • Clinical Services Coordinator

    Apr 2004 - Jul 2007
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  BJC Medical Group

  Aug 2021 - Sept 2022

  Director - Hospitalist Medicine
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  HCA MidAmerica Division

  Sept 2022 - now

  Director of Physician Services