Alana Denney
Kingston Springs, TN 37082
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Church Street Health Management, Nashville, TN 4/11 – 11/11
Executive Assistant (to Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer)
•Assisted the Senior Vice President/Chief Compliance Officer by providing information requested by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the US Government for 72 dental centers (providing services to an underserved population) resulting from audits, desk audits, and onsite visits. Company is operating under a five year Corporate Integrity Agreement as directed by the OIG.
•Typed and prepared letters, reports, and desk audits resulting from visits to the dental centers by the OIG.
•Maintained chronological files online as well as hard copies.
•Managed vendor exclusion list in online database (Company cannot do business with companies that are a “match” in the database).
•Maintained inventory of supplies for the departments on the floor where located.
•Monthly, provided the Compliance Committee copies of all correspondence and reports that were sent to the OIG. Quarterly, provided the Board of Directors copies of same correspondence and reports.
•Attended and took minutes during Compliance Committee monthly conference call. Gathered and prepared the report of information that was reviewed each month at this meeting. Following the meeting, disseminated the minutes to all participants.
•Prepared, organized and attended the monthly Compliance Liaison Committee webinar. Took minutes and following the meeting, disseminated the minutes to all participants.
•Created PowerPoint presentations for meetings.
•Handled travel and meeting arrangements.
Reason for leaving – Job was not a fit for my skills and expertise. I did not possess any compliance experience.
Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, TN 4/05 – 3/11
Executive Assistant
Department assistant for Clinical Operations supporting 11 clinical professionals. Managed heavy calendars, travel arrangements, videoconferencing, webinars, and daily contact with company hospitals, arranged and attended large off-site meetings and prepared power point slide presentations.
•Assisted Executive VP & Chief Medical Officer, which included extensive contact with 25 hospital CMOs, Quality, Risk, Chief Executive Officers, and Chief Nursing Officers.
•Prepared complex mock Joint Commission survey reports.
•Conducted many projects for departmental executives to free their time.
•Managed multiple complex individual meeting and travel calendars.
•Purchased departmental requirements according to budget, saving expenditures on expensive items, paid departmental invoices.
•Organized large off-site meetings while staying within a budget for large groups. Negotiated hotel room rates from relationships with many hotel chains.
•Provided heavy travel planning within guidelines, choosing flights/hotels to save budgeted dollars.
•Utilized new videoconferencing system, connecting all market offices with corporate office saving major travel dollars, as well as conducted monthly webinar meetings.
•Prepared large, complex power point presentations for department professionals relieving them of the time required to create.
•Managed one department Assistant Secretary.
Reason for leaving – Corporate downsizing
Province Healthcare Company, Brentwood, TN 6/04 – 4/05
Senior Administrative Assistant
(Company owned and operated 20 acute care hospitals) Assisted two Regional Vice Presidents, two Assistant Vice Presidents, and the Assistant Vice President for Regulatory Affairs.
•Assisted/supported report preparation, presentation preparation, calendar planning/scheduling, planned and attended all off-site meetings.
•Tracked all contracts for Central Region facilities from beginning until signatures were obtained.
•Provided administrative support to Assistant Vice President for Regulatory Affairs.
Reason for leaving – Company sold to Lifepoint Hospitals.
Vanderbilt Temporary Service, Nashville, TN 10/03 – 6/04
Jan 04 – June 04 – Assistant to the Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education, Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Provided administrative and business staff support, including budget and confidential matters to the Dean.
Oct 03 – Jan 04 – Assistant to the Chair, Medical Director of Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine. Provided administrative and business staff support, heavy calendar and travel, and supported budget and confidential matters to the Chairman/Medical Director.
Reason for leaving - Offered a full time position with benefits.
Surgical Monitoring Service, Nashville, TN 5/03 – 9/03
Administrative Assistant/Office Manager
•Scheduled intraoperative monitoring surgeries, managed billing and filing insurance claims through a database.
•Performed office functions for Clinical Manager and two technicians.
Reason for leaving – Corporate downsizing.
Gibson Musical Instruments, Nashville, TN 6/02 – 3/03
Executive Assistant to Chairman & CEO
•Provided daily management of extremely heavy calendar for CEO.
•Arranged meetings and follow-up to all meetings.
•Arranged executive level planning and implementation of domestic and international travel.
•Arranged and executed large, off-site meetings.
•Supervision of three Office Services employees.
Reason for leaving – Downsized from two assistants to one assistant.
Gresham, Smith & Partners, Nashville, TN 12/01 – 5/02
Administrative Coordinator
•Assisted a principal partner in the healthcare studio of an architectural/engineering firm.
•Duties were totally focused on supporting the healthcare studio’s top earner enabling his ability to develop client relationships and new business.
Reason for leaving – corporate downsizing, no new business in the pipeline.
Iasis Healthcare, Franklin, TN 11/99 – 10/01
Administrative Assistant
•Provided administrative duties from answering telephones to providing secretarial support to 11 people.
•Assisted Clinical Operations and supported the VP of Clinical Operations that provided clinical education and support for 16 medical/surgical hospitals.
Reason for leaving - Department was eliminated, position was eliminated.
Previous Work History in Administration:
Southern Hills Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Behavioral Healthcare Corporation, Nashville, TN
Centennial Parthenon Pavilion, Nashville, TN
Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, Nashville, TN
Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, TN
Education
Hendersonville High School – Hendersonville, Tennessee
Draughon’s Junior College – Nashville, Tennessee, received certificate in business and secretarial sciences.
Skills
• Type - 75 wpm
• MS Word (graphs/charts)
• MS Excel (spreadsheets/calculations)
• MS PowerPoint (presentations)
• MS Outlook
• Webinar execution
• Videoconferencing systems
• Shorthand/minute preparation
• Card Scan
• Social Media: LinkedIn/FaceBook