SARI NABULSI
Houston
Summary
Results-focused Healthcare Executive specializing in Hospital Administration and Medical Management. Successful in building robust administrative and healthcare delivery systems and driving clinical quality improvement. Career history of achievement realizing improved quality and safety through lean processes and thoughtful action planning.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Medical Officer
Al Abdali- Member of Clemenceau Network
AMMAN
08.2021 - Current
- WIDE EVIDENCE-BASED CARE POLICIES AND PROTOCOLS.
- Applied continuous process improvement strategies to enhance case management, programs, and clinical management. Develop evidence-based programs in Chest pain, STEMI, Stroke, NTSV C.S., LOS, and VTE prophylaxis.
- Led a diverse team of medical and administrative professionals in day-to-day hospital activities such as patient care, new business development, and patient relations. Projects cross into inter-departmental teams to help with buy-in and education.
- Improved patient outcomes and delivery of care through improved clinical quality processes.
- Drove planning for business development and relationship building with healthcare partners.
- Created effective marketing plans to attract new patients to the hospital.
- Directed cost management, utilization management, quality assurance, and medical protocol development initiatives.
- Administered medical billing and collections, marketing, and operational budgets.
Chief Medical Officer
Hospital Corporation Of America
Pasadena
03.2019 - 07.2021
- Maintained compliance with local, national, and federal requirements for staff education and certifications.
- Developed performance database incorporating quality indicators to provide leadership with necessary information to meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.
- Lead development of physician culture and practice environment that fosters high-quality patient care and exceptional patient experiences.
- Lead initiatives to implement evidence-based medicine, standardize clinical practice guidelines and protocols, and physician order sets.
- Developed and implemented effective disease management, clinical protocols, and guidelines and utilized decision tools and review of outcomes.
- Improved patient outcomes and care delivery through improved clinical quality processes with cost improvement to reflect newest evidence-based medicine.
- Guided development and implementation of policies, procedures, and bylaws, including credentialing and privileging medical staff members to ensure clinical excellence.
- Created an environment that fosters physician alignment with the hospital system.
- Support physician recruitment and development of new high-profit margin service lines.
- Worked with Hospital CEO, medical staff, and Board of Directors to improve functionality and effectiveness of hospital medical staff organization.
- Accomplished decrease of Hospital-Acquired infections (HAIs) by 33% year over year.
- No SSI-Colo for 600+ days, No CLABSI or MRSA for 300+ days.
- Improved mortality to 0.55 (from 0.85) by improving Palliative care and hospice process.
- Achieved Septic Shock Mortality.
- Accomplished increase in Enhanced Surgical recovery from 14% to 86% in high impact service lines.
- Attained NTSV C.S.
- (Nulliparous Term Single Vaginal also delivered by C.S.) below 25% within 12 months by utilizing SOAR Checklist and organizing Taskforce to help drive accountability among O.B.s.
- Surpassed Hip Fracture Repairs to 90% or higher by organizing OR director, Orthopedic surgeon, Anesthesia, and CMO.
- Re-organize our CV.
- Applied continuous process improvement strategies to enhance case management, programs, and clinical management.
- Administered medical billing and collections, marketing, and operational budgets.
Chief Medical Officer
Medical Center Hospital Odessa
Odessa
11.2018 - 02.2020
- Developed process to assure appropriateness of care, including Length of stay (LOS) and ancillary resource utilization, and ensure effective and efficient delivery of quality medical care.
- Utilized bedside shift reports and barrier rounding.
- Managed to decrease LOS by 20% by using collaborative multidisciplinary rounding.
- Led Medical departments meetings, including Medical Executive Committee, Peer reviews, and physicians leadership council, including developing agenda based on quality metric measures and data.
- Provided mentoring and coaching for physicians in medical staff leadership positions, emphasizing state and CMS conditions of participation, among many other specific growth areas for physician leaders.
- Developed a monthly physician newsletter to improve the community and provide effective communication among physicians and providers.
- Applied continuous process improvement strategies to enhance case management, programs, and clinical management.
- Defined medical and administrative best practices in policies and procedures for medical Staff.
- Directed cost management, utilization management, quality assurance, and medical protocol development initiatives.
- Held multiple overlapping executive leadership roles focused on improving the quality of hospital care and care delivery.
- Connected and served the needs of hospital administration, board of trustees, and physicians.
- Advised CEO on all aspects of clinical management within broader health care delivery plan of the hospital.
- Assured physician staff compliance with federal, state, and licensing agency requirements and monitored delivery of standards of care across disease management, evidence-based medicine, and case management.
- CHAIRED MEDICAL QUALITY CONTROL COMMITTEE.
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
Midland Memorial Hospital
Midland
01.2017 - 09.2019
- Directed strategy and Clinical practice for Department of Pediatrics.
- Minimize patients’ complications with evidence-based care protocols.
- Prepared a variety of different written communications, reports and documents to ensure smooth operations.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
Education
MBA - Management
Texas Tech University
06.2003
Master - Pediatrics
University of Illinois At Chicago
06.1996
Ph.D. - Medical
Jordan University of Science And Technology
Jordan06.1992
Skills
- Employee Supervision
- Data Analysis
- Operating Plans Development
- Employee Recruitment and Hiring
- Process Implementation
- Policy and Program Development
- Interdepartmental Functions Coordination
- Service Utilization Improvements
- Budget Planning
- Employee Performance Evaluations
- Risk Management
- Utilization Management
- Compliance Advisory
- Risk Mitigation
- Quality Assurance Controls
- HIPAA Guidelines
- Medical Programs Implementation
- Clinical Quality Program Standards
- Organizational Goal Development
- Problem Identification
- Accreditation Coordination
- Clinical Staff Management
- Emergency Readiness
- Medicare Compliance
- Facility Inspections
- Codes Compliance
Accomplishments
- Improve HAIs ranking to the highest among HCA hospitals.
- Achieve Leapfrog A
- Improved NTSV C.S. to 21% in less than 16 months
- Improved mortality to 55% among inpatient population-lowest in HCA
- Improves PCI Door to Needle to less than 32 minutes
- Closed the ICU and established MDR resulting in improved outcomes in ICU
- Implemented sepsis guidelines resulting in improvement in septic shock mortality, faster antibiotics administration and better SEP-1 results
- Supervised a team of 9 employees that help to coordinate various areas of quality, safety, and infection prevention.
Certification
2015-10
Languages
Arabic
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Chief Medical Officer
Al Abdali- Member of Clemenceau Network
08.2021 - Current
Chief Medical Officer
Hospital Corporation Of America
03.2019 - 07.2021
Chief Medical Officer
Medical Center Hospital Odessa
11.2018 - 02.2020
Assistant Chief Medical Officer
Midland Memorial Hospital
01.2017 - 09.2019
MBA - Management
Texas Tech University
Master - Pediatrics
University of Illinois At Chicago
Ph.D. - Medical
Jordan University of Science And Technology
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