Sara Yagan

Experience

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  Ithaca College

  Aug 2014 - May 2016

  Resident Assistant

  Promote academic excellence, address student needs, and encourage involvement among residents Assist in the selection, evaluation and training of incoming RA’sImplement and enforce all College and Housing policiesPlan campus wide events, and work among a staff of 16 other RA’s Learn how to communicate in difficult situationsTrained in counseling and helping skills, and resources on and off campus

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  Cayuga Area Preferred

  May 2016 - Aug 2017

  Practice Support Intern

  •Planned, coordinated, and executed a three-part Community Health Forum to bring awareness to the community on the work that the ACO does and the benefit it provides to businesses, patients, and the community at large. •Formatted Patient Quality Metric documents from a narrative to technical specification, allowing the application of query logic to be applied to the dataset and produce actionable results. •Produced quarterly newsletters which included practice and company updates to summarize growth and progress.•Developed strategic plan for improving Medicare annual wellness visits by incorporating medication reconciliation.•Updated supervisors on DISRIP reporting changes and Patient-Centered Medical Home requirements when released. Show less

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  Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Grand Round Rotation Intern

  During the summer of 2016, I served as Cayuga Medical Centers Grand Rounds Intern. In this role, I had the unique opportunity to work alongside five upper management departments learning how each interact with one another to allow a Hospital to run successfully. -Created the first draft of the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment, including preliminary research, executive summary of changes, prevention agendas, data, and progress an improvements -Oversaw research on Hand-washing techniques performed throughout the hospital to ensure clinicians were following the Quality Departments policies -Edited department’s Strategic Plan for 2017 to match Cayuga Medical Centers overall goal for their 2017 Strategic Plan -Assisted on planning committee for the 2016 Board of Trustees Retreat Show less

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  State University of New York Upstate Medical University

  Oct 2017 - Aug 2018

  Graduate Medical Office

  •Coordinated the Exchange Visitor Program by planning and executing weekly cross-cultural events for 50 international students to improve their conversational English skills and adapt to American culture. •Verified residency completion for the Office of Graduate Medical Education.•Organized monthly meetings for the GME Advising Council, planned agenda, and produced follow-up reports. •Designed professional development modules and seminars for department managers.

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  Geisinger

  Jan 2019 - Feb 2020

  Innovation Graduate Resident

  •Developed the initial Strategic Plan for the Steele Institute of Innovation and presented to the leadership that was later used for training new staff and informing new partners of our business model, goals, and purpose.•Planned, organized, budgeted, and executed the Institute’s Hacking Health event inviting innovators to work towards a solution to physician burnout due to the Electronic Medical Record in order to invest in their ideas. •Created and implemented a comprehensive, standardized intake process for new projects and requests to be reviewed and prioritized for the Innovation Institute.•Developed a proposal and plan for a Digital Triage Platform which focuses on leading patients to the proper avenues to seek care based on their symptoms. •Conducted comprehensive research and data analysis on several projects such as physician burnout, stigma surrounding opioid addiction, BPCI/A practices, and more that will be later implemented into projects. Show less

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  New Jersey State Department of Banking and Insurance

  Jul 2020 - Sept 2021

  Policy Analyst / Special Projects Lead
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  STATE OF MAINE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERIVCES

  Sept 2021 - Jan 2022

  Senior Policy and Implementation Analyst (consultant)
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  KPMG US

  Feb 2022 - now

  • Manager

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Senior Associate

    Feb 2022 - Oct 2023