Kristie McDaniel, MBA RN CMRP

Experience

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  Illinois Association FFA

  Jun 1992 - Jun 1993

  State Secretary-Treasurer

  Elected FFA Leadership Position

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  Southern Illinois University

  Aug 1993 - May 1997

  Student Worker College of Agriculture

  SIU Farms Secretary and Farm Laborer.

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  Tractor Supply Company

  May 1997 - Jun 2000

  Manager

  Harrisburg, Peoria, Washington, and Galesburg, Illinois retail locations.Displaying and merchandising, hands on sales, and customer service.Performs team member staffing, hiring, supervision and counseling, scheduling and payroll functions.Provides inventory control, product handling processes, shrink management, negotiations with vendors and corporate purchasing to ensure that products placed in the store reflect the needs of the community.Provides state wide support through the implementation of electronic charge system and bar code scanning inventory control system.Establish a process within team to monitor processes, tasks, or job activities and responsibilities of Associates while increasing profits of the operation. Show less

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  Country Insurance and Financial Serviced

  Jun 2000 - Mar 2002

  Agent

  Helps clients achieve their financial goals by offering products based on client’s needs and financial situation.Develops a customer base of long-term clients through referrals, cold calling and effective customer service.Determines client’s needs and financial situations through fact finding appointments and data analysis.Enhances insurance agencies reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different levels of requests, as wells as exploring opportunities to add value to the company. Show less

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  MidCountry Bank formerly Community National Bank

  Jan 2002 - Mar 2007

  Personal Banker

  Responsible for performing banking duties and overseeing the financial activities for personal and commercial accounts.Building a retail and commercial base through cold calling, marketing, and excellent customer service.Provides support to the organization through maintaining an active position on the Mergers and Acquisition Team and assisting in developing a structured process across facilities to provide quality customer service.Implementation and system wide support of electronic banking system.Developing and providing system wide training and performance standards throughout banking system.Evaluating and implementing an electronic data capture and banking system through out banking system to increase cost effectiveness of services provided. Show less

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  St. Mary's Medical Center

  Feb 2008 - May 2010

  Student Nurse-Cardiac Telemetry

  Provide safe and effective care for patients as in a Patient Care Tech Role.Participate in bi-weekly nursing clinical experience with assigned RN Preceptor.

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  St. Mary's Health

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2016

  Oversees St. Mary’s Medical Group payer quality audits and responds appropriately to any deficits identified, ensuring high level performance on practice-by-practice, physician-by-physician basis.Serves as the Regional Liaison to the Managed Care, Quality, and Care Management programs interfacing directly with multiple payer sources and Ascension Medical Group Indiana Leadership.Serves as Regional Liaison between Ascension Medical Group Indiana, community resources, hospital departments, occupational medicine, rehab therapy, regional health systems, and other required entities to coordinate care for patients and develop care pathways.Improves clinical workflows and systems through the institution of quality improvement strategies, setting and maintaining performances standards, and providing leaders/clinicians with information for decision-making. Participates in the development of informational technologies that utilize patient and client data to support clinical decision-making in clinical practice.Works directly with Ascension Medical Group Indiana Leaders to ensure the successful implementation and maximization of the Electronic Medical Record to improve resource allocation and utilization, and clinical processes and outcomes.Reports monthly to Ascension Medical Group Indiana Officers, Ascension Medical Group Indiana Quality Committees, practice and site managers relative to performance against site and physician-specific quality targets.Monitors the participation and performance of assigned providers in payer-based incentive programs (e.g. HEDIS-STARS, Pay-for Performance, etc.). Supports problem solving initiatives as needed to ensure successful achievement of maximum incentives available.Works with Ascension Medical Group Indiana Leadership to direct improvement and standardization of clinical practices to support population health initiatives, clinical outcome achievement and positive patient achievement Show less Responsible for hospital wide implementation of electronic health record (Allscripts) including, but not limited to, clinical documentation, order entry, reports, analytics, pharmacy documentation, and CPOE.Collaborates with all St. Mary’s Health System resources to design and develop appropriate documentation and education for all clinical staff and physicians, utilizing working clinical and regulatory compliance knowledge.Provides input into business decisions being made related to key issues in reference to documentation and CPOE as well as ensures alignment of the electronic health record with regulatory requirements.Areas covered include but are not limited to Cardiovascular Services, Inpatient and Outpatient Cath Labs, Interventional Radiology, Medical Imaging, Case Management and Social Services, Respiratory Therapy, Physical Medicine, Acute Inpatient Rehab, Emergency Services, Emergency Physicians, LifeFlight and Registration. Show less Provides decision support via analysis of supply utilization, physician preferences and procedure volumes.Provides support builds, and maintains cases, templates, and inventory control system within XPER documentation platform.Reduces inventory while maintaining an optimal level of product as necessary by developing and maintaining a perpetual inventory system, monitoring product levels and reducing shrink.Affects cost containment through vendor negotiations and proper utilization.Maintains the Cath Lab and EP Lab charge description master with emphasis on accurate CPT coding.Develops and maintains menus and inventories in the hemodynamic system and the cardiac database.Develops and monitors accurate patient charging procedures on a daily basis by performing charge reconciliation audits at a patient level.Analyzes and provides data as requested for budgetary purposes and other ministry led performance evaluations..Supports/ assists Cath Lab Director with special projects as necessary.Provides clinical support in the Cath Lab and EP Lab.Develops and monitors accurate patient charging procedures on a daily basis by performing charge reconciliation audits at a patient level.Analyzes and provides data as requested for budgetary purposes and other ministry led performance evaluations..Supports/ assists Cath Lab Director with special projects as necessary.Provides clinical support in the Cath Lab and EP Lab. Show less Manages patient population for 48 bed cardiac telemetry unit as well as managing, scheduling and mentoring all staff.Responsible for appropriately utilizing the concepts of the nursing process in providing comprehensive care for assigned patients, in accordance with the recognized nursing standards and hospital policies and procedures.Maintaining ACLS, BLS and National Nursing Certification.Foster patient safety and reduction of errors through reporting, monitoring, utilizing and maintaining a safe environment.Attending to physician issues as well as following up with providers as necessary.Maintaining high patient satisfaction scores.Provides feedback to employees regarding their individual job performance as well as participating in performance evaluations.Managing Code Blue and any other stressful event that might occur by utilizing professional and effective communication skills. Show less

  • Clinical Nurse Navigator

    Jun 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Clinical Informaticist

    Oct 2012 - Jun 2015

  • RN, PCCN, Cath Lab Support Coordinator

    Jul 2011 - Oct 2012

  • RN, PCCN Cardiac Service Line

    May 2009 - Oct 2012

  • RN, PCCN, Charge Nurse-Cardiac Telemetry

    Oct 2010 - Jul 2011
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  Evolent Health

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2017

  Director Of Quality Improvement and Innovation

  Identify, prioritize, and operationalize innovation initiatives that support market performance against value contracts. Qualiity Strategy and OperationsOversee the tracking, trending and reporting of Quality data for client, providing in-depth analysis and insights on achievement of specified targetsCollaborates with market and client leaders to design and pilot rapid innovation pilots to drive superior performance across Quality measures, assessing eventual impact and opportunities for improvementPrepare and present QI progress reports for internal and external client committees (e.g., ACO Quality Committee) and garner input and support of QI approachesAssist in activities to monitor and track ongoing compliance with CMS ACO quality program requirementsProactive Care ProgramIdentify and prioritize key quality and utilization measures critical to client success under its performance based payment programs (e.g., achieving target thresholds for CMS programs, pay-for-performance contracts with national payers, etc.)Work closely with Evolent’s market-based Medical Director, Senior Director of Clinical Operations, and Population Health Managers to support care gap closure through physician practices, nurse care manager/pharmacist interactions, and patient communications and educationWorks directly with the Market President to identify, define, and prioritize innovation initiatives designed to achieve performance targets against value contracts.Collaborate with Evolent clinical leadership, Clinical Innovations Team, Clinical Informatics, and Reporting and Analytics to operationalize care gap closure efforts for the clientWork collaboratively with physician practices on activities to improve population health management Show less

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  Ferrell Hospital

  Sept 2017 - now

  Director

  I began my tenure with direct oversight of health system quality and process improvement. In 2018 I began leading information technology, informatics and information security efforts. Over time I have added the Supply Chain as well as Population Health efforts.From 2018 to 2019 served as the On-Site Project Manger for system wide Epic Implementation. Later leading the organization to become certified as Digital Health's Most Wired for both Acute and Ambulatory in 2022 and consecutive years. In 2020, joined the Materials Management and Supply Chain team with direct oversight and responsibilty of inventory management and contain cost through process improvement, utilization of strategic partnerships and contract management. Responsible for the leadership of the Population Heath Team including Outpatient Nurse Navigation in an effort to maximize value based contracts and increase the health and well-being of our patients. Show less