Vipul Kella, MD MBA FACEP

Physician Healthcare Executive

adm9ws@r.postjobfree.com • 248-***-**** • linkedin.com/in/vipulkella Accomplished physician executive and proven transformational leader with 10 years of executive and administrative leadership and 15 years of clinical practice expertise. Success in providing strategic leadership, achieving operational goals, and integrating clinical and nancial directives to achieve best-in-class results. Achievements:

● Frederick Health Chief of Acute Services: Turned around struggling emergency departments, leading improvements in several KPI’s: e ciency, cost-of-care, patient satisfaction, reimbursement, and safety. Ranked as best in the region in P&L and EBITDA metrics in consecutive years as chief of services.

● Southern Maryland, Operations Director, and Vice-Chairman: Transformed urban emergency department and dramatically improved KPIs in emergency throughput, quality, and cost of care.

● MEP Health: Senior Partner with strategic, nancial, and governance responsibilities in multispecialty practice with 100 M revenue.

Executive Quali cations:

US Acute Care Solutions, Senior Partner, Director of Acute Care Services 2008 - Present

● Physician executive and senior partner in MEP Health and US Acute Care Solutions, one of the largest physician-owned, private-equity-backed medical groups, with >1B revenue and over 3000 medical providers serving 6 M patients.

● Key role in the growth of USACS and recognized as innovative operations leader leading struggling emergency contracts. Successes lead to expansion of service lines into Pediatrics, Post-Acute Care, and Observation Medicine with the management of >$50 M P&L.

● Achieved >25% improvement in sta ng e ciency, lowered sta ng costs >2M, decreased ambulance diversion 25%, decreased ED denials for avg savings of 750k, and improved discharge LOS 20%, achieving >$2 M in hospital savings.

● Introduced quality protocols for best-in-class results for myocardial infarction, stroke, and sepsis leading to top 5% in national quality metrics and >2 M in hospital savings.Created novel to lower frequent ER utilization decreasing recidivism by 30% and saving >1M in frequent-patient utilization costs.

● Created rst-ever multidisciplinary Integrated Palliative Care Program pilot lowered hospital readmissions >50% in rst year, lowering hospital costs 5M

Chief of Operations, Vice-Chairman Chief SouthernMarylandHospital, Clinton MD 2012-213 Responsible for a turnaround for distressed 65+k visit ER and >10 M budget Key Achievements:

● creation of new ED ow models led to 10-year best e ciency metrics.

● Care management integration increased ER co-pay collection >1 M in the rst year.

● Introduced quality program lowering 50% reduction in the use of ED blood cultures leading to 2M savings in hospital costs.

InsightMD, Founder and President 2020– Present

● Founded independent healthcare consulting practice for digital healthcare startups, venture rms, hospitals, and malpractice attorneys.

● Areas of consulting expertise: Hospital operations and quality, corporate strategy, and digital health. Education and Credentials:

Certi cate in Digital Health Transformation in Healthcare for Executive 2021 - Columbia Business School, New York City, NY.

Masters of Business Administration (MBA): 2018 – 2020; Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD. Concentration: Healthcare Administration and Finance. Graduated with honors. Doctor of Medicine (MD): 1998-2002; University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. Bachelor of Science (BS): 1993-1997: Molecular Biology; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Associations

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

American College of Healthcare Executive (ACHE)

National Societ for Leadership and Success (NSLS)

Certi cations:

Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP) Board Certi ed, Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ATLS) Certi cation

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Certi cation

Awards

Beta Sigma Gamma Business Honor Society for Top Business Students, 2020

“Di erence Maker Award” (2014), American College of Physician Executives National Society of Leadership and Success Inductee (2020), Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Languages:

Fluency in English, Spanish, Hindi.

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