Director of Rehabilitation, Masters of Health Science OTR

RESUME

Vivienne C Meanger, PhD, MHS, OTR/L

**** *. ******** *****, ******, AZ 85715 (C) 520-***-****

E-mail *******@*******.***

Education/Qualifications

**** ****** ********** *** ** Public Policy and Administration,

specializing in leadership and management

2008 - Present Advisory Board Member for Brown Mackie College,

Tucson, AZ

2002 Masters of Health Science, University of Indianapolis, Indiana GPA

3.97

1995 Certification in Effective Personal Productivity

1993 American Registered Occupational Therapist

1989-1993 Associates in Childbirth Education, Sydney, Australia

ACE Diploma in Childbirth Education, New Zealand

1982 New Zealand Registered Occupational Therapist

Academic Awards

2013 Golden Key International Honors Society, PhD, Walden University

2013 Pi Alpha Alpha Honors Society, School of

Public Policy, Walden University

Membership Golden Key International Honors Society, 1977

Society

Society of Fellows, The Culinary

Institute of America, 2011

Work Experience Includes clinical and management / consultant

experience in New Zealand and the United States. Most

recent includes:

2014 - Patient Care Advocates Home Health Agency

Occupational therapist PRN

2013- present Meridian Healthcare Occupational Therapist PRN

2011 -05/2015 Director of Rehabilitation Kindred Healthcare

2001-2014 Pediatric Private Practice

06/09- 05/2011 Rehabilitation Services Manager, Life Care

Centers of America

3/05 - 06 09 Regional Director of Operations, Brookdale

Senior Living

Administrator of six outpatient clinics

and a Home Health Agency (start-up adventure

Tucson, AZ Network. Clinical settings included CCRC: Independent

Living, Assisted Living and a Skilled Nursing Unit; 4 free

standing Assisted Living Communities and an Independent

Living facility. Seven deficiency free AZ State and Joint

Commission surveys including Home Health Agency initial

survey.

2002 -2009 Adjunct Instructor A.T. Still University in

Mesa, AZ

Responsibilities: developing and

teaching curriculum for Advanced Masters in

Occupational Therapy. Pediatric topics

taught on-line computer based courses.

04/1999-03/2005 Pediatric Occupational Therapist, Tucson Medical

Center

04/97-02/1995 Regional Rehabilitation Director, Life Care

Centers of America

Responsibilities included: management of inter-disciplinary

teams, in multiple facilities in three states. .

02/95-08/1997 Rehabilitation Services Manager / Consultant, Hillhaven /

Vencor

Responsibilities included: management of 31 rehabilitation personal

in two long term facilities. Development of, and

consultant for external contracts in Early Intervention,

school system and home health on a regional basis.

Consultant & "trouble shooter" for southern Indiana region.

01/93- 02/1995 Occupational Therapist, St Mary's Medical

Center, Evansville, IN, USA

Pediatric Occupational therapist, Puketiro Centre, Wellington Area

Hospital Board, New Zealand

06/ 85 -10/1986 Porirua Psychiatric Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand

Occupational therapy service provision foe acute care

psychiatric patients: self awareness, assertiveness and

anger management programs.

01/84-05/1985 Director of Occupational Therapy, South Canterbury

Hospital Board,

Timaru, New Zealand.

01/83-01/1984 Occupational Therapist, South Canterbury Hospital Board,

Timaru,

New Zealand.

Publications: Organizational Climate and the Theory of Human

Caring in

Hospitals, Published Dissertation,

March, 2014, Walden University

Article published Mainstreaming - A Literature Review, New

Zealand Journal of Occupational Therapy, 41 (2), Summer

1990.

Edited:

Getting To Know Your Special Needs Baby, Published

February, 1995

Good Beginning 0-6 Months, Published February, 1995.

Presentations:

July 2014 Walden University Research Symposium - The

theory of human

caring and organization climate in hospitals.

October 2014 Watson Caring Science Institute International

Caritas Consortium

Transformational leadership- Plenary Panel Discussion &

Original Research Poster Presentation - Organizational

Climate and the Theory of Human Caring in Hospitals.

October 2013 Wound Care Symposium - Electrical Stimulation for Healing

and

Pain Control.

References:

Jeanette Williams Kindred Healthcare Ph: 209-***-****

Lori Barnes Meridian Healthcare Ph: 520-***-****

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