Quality Assurance Sales

Cary Christie

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Address: **** * *** ******

City: Olathe

State: KS

Zip: 66062

Country: USA

Phone: 913-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $65,000

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CARY CHRISTIE

1813 East 152nd Circle

Olathe, KS 66062

C) 913-***-****

H) 913-***-****

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EMPLOYMENT

Osawatomie State Hospital June 2010 - Current

Psychiatric Hospital

Program Manager

Responisiblities

Staff Development

Quality Assurance

Regulatory Compliance

Care Cab LLC Nov. 2009 - Current

Medical Transportation

Owner and Operator

Responsibilities

Sales and Marketing

Credentialing

Quality Assurance

Regulatory Compliance

Accounting

Cyberonics, Houston, TX. Aug. 2002 - Oct. 2009

Neurostimulation Company

Field Sales Trainer (Nov. 2008 - Oct. 2009)

Executive Therapeutic Consultant (June 2008 - Oct. 2009)

President National Sales Advisory Board(March 2008 - Nov. 2008)

Senior Therapeutic Consultant (March 2005 - June 2008)Therapeutic Consultant (Sales Rep.) (Feb. 2003 - March 2005)

Clinical Specialist (Aug. 2002 - Feb. 2003)

Responsibilities

Driving Sales Growth for a minimum 10% annual growth

All roles identified below as Clinical Specialist

Clinical Specialist

Reimbursement and Coding analysis and teaching

Contracting

Open new health care systems, hospitals, and prescribing

physician accounts

New indication launch in depression

Patient, Physician, and surgical teaching

Accomplishments

*Average 14% growth in annual sales per year / 6years

* Regional Field Sales Trainer

*Elected President of the National Sales Advisory Board FY08/09 by peers

*President's Club x 2 .

*Consistently Top 10 in the nation annual rankings.

*Other Awards: Multiple TC of the quarter and National Team of the Quarter awards, Fly to the finish, National Revenue percent to plan, and Just Do It award winner.

*Grew sales base by 275% over 7 years

*Opened the first VA (VISN) in the nation with VNS therapy policy and procedures in company history that included protocols for use of a medical device in an algorithm of care.

*Opened two accounts as National Accounts and Centers of Excellence.

*Participated in new indication launch.

Call on: Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Neurosurgeons, ENTs, and General Surgeons

Miami County Medical Center, Paola, KS Nov. 2001 - Aug. 2002

General Hospital

Manager of Inpatient Care

Responsibilities

Daily Collaboration with physicians and other health care professionals.

Provide patient and family education to preoperative and postoperative care as well as medical illnesses.

Team building: recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orienting and corrective actions.

Performance reviews

Budget proposal and management

Quality Assurance of provided services

Project development and management

Accomplishments

*Developed and implemented protocols for improved quality of patient care.

*Improved staff recruitment and retention.

*Improved staff training with a developed mentor program.

*Improved staffing patterns related to patient census trends.

*Improved over all team concepts and dynamics.

*Improved medication transcription and distribution practices.

*Reduced medication errors to the hospital by 36%.

*Cut the patient care budget by over $85,000/year with improved surveys related to quality of care.

*Improved Quality Assurance reviews.

*Improved JCAHO surveys

*Improved availability of equipment and supplies.

Trinity Lutheran Hospital, Kansas City, MO Jan. 2001 - Nov. 2001

General Hospital

Psychiatric Staff Nurse Supervisor

Responsibilities

Work collaboratively with physicians and other health care professionals.

Perform patient assessments, crisis intervention, patient and family counseling.

Quality Assurance

Team Leadership

Accomplishments

*Managed psychiatric unit consisting of patients with depression, mood disorders, eating disorders, and schizophrenia

*Chairperson of Nursing Task Force for Performance Improvement

*Developed and implemented Staff Recruitment and Retention program

*Developed and implemented Staff training program(s)

*Wrote a book on patient journaling and implemented it into patient care

*CPR trainer for all Medical Staff

*Graduated with my Master's in Nursing Administration (MSN)

Bethesda Faith Village, Shawnee Mission, KS April. 1993 - Nov. 2001

Intermediate Care Facility for the Developmentally Disabled

Director of Nursing

Responsibilities

Collaborative practice with physicians and other health care professionals.

Quality Assurance

Medication distribution practices teaching and monitoring

Budget proposals and monitoring

Team Building: recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orienting, and corrective actions

Performance reviews

Project development, implementing, and monitoring

Patient, family and staff education of medical illnesses and treatments

Accomplishments

*Developed orientation program including writing the manuals to enhance quality of care.

*Provided training to medical staff that included teaching about epilepsy, medical care for those having seizures, VNS, depression, eating disorders, pain, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's.

*Developed a computerized medication-teaching program.

*Developed Quality Assurance protocols and procedures that resulted in an unprecedented deficiency free state survey.

*Continued Quality Assurance protocols that resulted in deficiency-free state and federal surveys for 4 out of 5 years. (There were 0 deficiency - free surveys in the 15 years prior).

*Identified cost cutting measures that enhanced patient care. Protocols were incorporated into national policy and saved the corporation over $100,000 / year.

*Developed therapeutic recreational programs that were used by state surveyors as models for individualizing care for people living in group settings at other facilities across the state of Kansas.

EDUCATION

Completed Target Selling Course Aug. 2008

Completed Spin Selling Course Aug. 2007

Completed Systema Selling Course Aug. 2006

PCI Sales Management Training Aug. 2004

Master's of Science (MSN) May 2001

Graduate of UMKC (Univ. of Missouri in Kansas City)

Graduated from the Nursing Administration program

with a minor in MAsters for Adult clinical Nursing

Graduated with an accumulated 3.5 GPA

Bachelor's of Science (BSN) May 1993

Graduate of Baker Univ. in Baldwin, KS

Nursing program was at Stormont Vail Medical Center

in Topeka, KS

Graduated with an accumulated GPA of 3.45

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Jan. 1982

Graduated from courses at Washburn Univ.

in Topeka, KS.

Was state certified through state of KS.

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