Medical Training
Resume:
RICHARD MATUSZCZAK,LVN, CCHP, CCN/M
Certified Correctional Health Care Professional / Certified Correctional Nurse Manager
Big Spring Tx 79720 (c) 915-***-****
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SUMMARY
Retired military chief and Gulf War Veteran with twenty years’ experience offering in-depth understanding of the military command structure, missions, programs and organizational relationships as well as strong experience and knowledge of the Military Health System, pre-deployment and post-deployment health assessments and medical logistics and supply.
Academic Degrees in Nursing, Health Care Management and Management.
Instrumental in identifying, evaluating and critiquing systems, plans and procedures and providing recommendations for operational and program findings.
Experience working in high intensity, complex threat and unpredictable environments including correctional facilities and overseas battlefield situations.
EMPLOYMENT
Big Spring Correctional Center, Big Spring Texas
Health Services Administrator - Geo Group 02/2011 to Present
Webb County Detention Facility, Laredo Texas
Health Services Administrator - Corrections Corporations of America 03/2009 - 02/2011
Central New Correctional Facility, Los Lunas New Mexico
Health Services Administrator - Correction Medical Services 07/2007- 12/2008
Health Services Administrator - Addus Health Care Services 05/2001- 06/2004
Director of health care services for five correctional medical facilities
Collaborated daily on health care medical readiness, issues and operations with Medical Director (including all specialty clinics, medical, dental and mental health and diagnostic services).
Evaluated site-specific policies/procedures and developed improved processes to assist medical staff in meeting remaining compliant with regulatory agencies while maintaining high standards of care (result: passed national accreditations with scores of 95% or better).
Coordinated and implemented a $65,000.00 on-site dialysis unit resulting in saving $130,000.00 yearly in the transportation of patients to off-site providers. Provided numerous presentations to various practitioners to attain their business and future on-site services. Implemented tighter controls for medication orders and supplies for a 1600 inmate facility (result: saved $3 million in 2008). Worked closely with the New Mexico Department of Public Health in the treatment of HIV and assisting inmates upon parole or discharge in proper health care. Assisted in the start- up of Tele-medicine in the correctional setting, resulting in greater safety for the community and significant cost savings for the company. Developed specific audit tools to assist in discovering problems areas which were identified and corrected prior to major accreditation surveys which results in maintaining high scores. Monthly medical training exercises were conducted with security for compliance and to gather feedback on what went right, wrong or what needs to be done better; using the What, Why, Who, When and How method; I gather all this information ant then presented it the upper chain of command for further actions.
American Red Cross Blood Services, Farmers Branch, Texas 04/2006 -04-2007
Regional Apheresis Manager/Interim Whole Blood Collections Manager
Administrator for 3 major donor collection sites for Platelets (Waco, Wichita Falls, Dallas).
Managed $600K budget, supervised daily operations, 8 aphaeresis technicians and associated equipment.
Assisted HR with personnel issues and decreased department overtime by 95%. Provided educational and promotional items to community organizations about the use Platelets and understanding how the product saves lives. Supervised 6 team supervisors and 75 staff members in Whole Bloods group. Evaluated policies and procedures and implemented operational and programmatic changes to determine staff statistical performance measures resulting in combination of part of the collections team and the apheresis department. Enforced cross training of apheresis and whole blood (result: increased morale and staff respect for what each member does in their jobs).
Regional Manager - Wexford Health Sources Inc., Albuquerque, NM 7/2004 - 8/2005
Managed the deliverance of health and dental care for 6200 New Mexico State inmates via supervision of 10 Correctional Health Services Administrators and 195 staff members. Collaborated on health care issues with the New Mexico State Medical Director, including the education, deliverance and treatment of Hepatitis C for 3400 inmates. Maintained cost saving measures and control of $27 million budget. Approved and monitored all expenditures to assure fiscal accountability. Assisted in contract negotiations resulting in $222,000 savings during the first 7 months. Performed Human Resource functions including staff recruitment, interviews, reference and credential verification, time and pay documentation review, coordinating staff disciplinary actions and conducting performance evaluations. Developed variance reports and implemented action plans for corrections as needed. Implemented contracts with vendors for off-site medical care needed for inmate patients.
Health Services Administrator - Addus Health Care Services 05/2001- 06/2004
Central New Correctional Facility, Los Lunas New Mexico
U.S. Army 1979 - 2001
William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas 1996 - 2001
CHIEF CLINICAL SUPERVISOR 04/2000 - 04/2001
Supervised and directed the Department of Nursing including a budget of more than $9Million and activities of 300 nursing personnel in a multi-departmental medical center. Managed logistical support and vendors. Maintained executive contacts from other community hospitals and medical providers for cross training and other educational purposes while ensuring training and education were provided to all military and civilian nursing staff. Result: High standards were maintained in patient care and the department of nursing under my supervision passed JCAHO with an exemplary score of 100%.
Chief Nursing Instructor, William Beaumont Army Medical Center
Practical Nurse Course 02/1999 - 03/2000
Supervised Non-Commissioned Instructors of a 52 week U.S. Army Licensed Practical Nurse course. Worked closely with solider issues, personal problems and training requirements for two military classes, each consisting sixty to eighty students per year. Served as a liaison between the school and other military and civilian organizations. Managed the logistical support and maintained accountability and service of all equipment valued in excess of $700,000. Provided extensive support to executive officials by applying quantitative and qualitative evaluation methodologies thus analyzing, evaluating and advising on various aspects of the health care educational operations. Resolved numerous problems by maximizing resources and coordinating workload challenges while complying regulatory guidance with great success. Set short range goals and established priorities to accomplish them in keeping with long range departmental priorities which was always a challenge to complete. Lead medical team consisted of nursing students in support of the Bataan Death March 2000; delivered excellent medical care to over fifteen hundred casualties with out major tragedies. Selected and training a fifty-two student team to set up DEPMEDS during Roving Sands Exercise and for the preparation of a major SURGEX.
Training and Medical Operations Supervisor, Readiness Division
William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso Texas 01/1998 - 02/1999
Highly selected to sit on panel among other top senior Non Commissioned Officers to discuss the future of military leadership training of force XXI. Developed and maintained readiness training and education for more than 900 military and civilian employees of a major Army Medical Center. Planned, coordinated and executed all professional development courses i.e. Officer Courses, ANCOC, BNCOC, PNCOC, Battle Staff, Master Fitness, Nuclear, Bio and Chemical Courses etc. Planned, developed, coordinated, directed and executed Emergency Preparedness Exercises between military and the civilian community and trained with local authorities in the aspect of possible terrorist attacks. Attended numerous Homeland Security courses in San Antonio Texas which covered many terrorism topics and tactics. Key Evaluator in numerous medical exercises for Fort Bliss and William Beaumont Army Medical Center; prepared reports upon completion of the evaluation to executive officials which covered what went well, what went wrong and some suggestions to improve battle field medical operations. Lead instructor for medical personal who challenged the Field Expert Medical Badge which the command had great success of completing. Worked very closely with medical officers and soldiers alike preparing for deployment once receiving orders to deploy. Basic Life Support instructor for Joint Readiness Training (JTR-6) Biggs Army Air Field Ft. Bliss Texas. Managed expenditures of all training ammunition for military and DOD Security Forces; prepared training data reports; requested and coordinated allocations for military schools also coordinated with MTOE units for training equipment used in annual Common Task Training to include the use of chemical training equipment for decontaminating of field hospitals.
Adult Primary Care Clinical Supervisor
William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso Texas 10/1996 - 01/1998
Supervised five military and four civilian employees, supported seven staff physicians and sixty-five interns and maintained patient care for over thirty-five hundred patients a month without major incidents. Responsible for insuring proper professional training and maintaining credentials also provided administrative support of all assigned personnel. Acted as a liaison between the medical facility and disgruntle patients who believed that they were not receiving the best care possible for their complaints. Served as Brigade Color Guard NCOIC of numerous military occasions.
Property Management BRAC (Base Closure) Supervisor
Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora Colorado 03/1996 - 09/1996
Supervised twenty-five soldiers in the closer of Fitzsimons Medical Center. Prepared documentation for inventorying, managing and dispensing expendable / durable property. Reviewed documents to determine item authorization by hand receipt accounts and placement of items for transport to other facilities. Responsible for security and management of several buildings which housed various medical equipment and supplies valued over 11.8 million dollars.
Military Courses Attended:
13F (Forward Observer), 91A / 91B Combat Medic, 91C Licensed Practical Nurse
Primary Leadership Course, Basic Non Commissioned Officers Course, Advanced Non Commissioned Officers Course
Alcohol and Drug Coordinator Counselor Training
Equal Employee Representative Training
Bio-Hazmat Training
Range Control / Weapons Qualification Training
Driver Instructor Training
Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training
Fitness Instructor Training
AMEDD Center and School Faculty Development Course
OSHA Compliance Training
Clinical Evaluation and Counseling
Fire and Safety Evaluator Training
CPR Instructor Training
MOD MED Fielding Course Training
Medical Supply and Logistical Training
Readiness and Homeland Security Training and Conferences
Prior Military Experience:
Intermediate Care Ward Master while deployed with the 212th Mash Unit from Wurzburg Germany to Operation Provide Promise (Zagreb) while assigned to the U.N. Protective Forces.
Treatment Platoon Sergeant while assigned to the 47th Combat Support Battalion, Erlangen Germany.
Squad Leader while assigned to 203rd Forward Support Medical Company Erlangen Germany.
Security, Operations and Transportation NCOIC while deployed with the 347th Combat Support Hospital form Jacksonville FL is support of Operation Desert Storm / Shield.
Cardiology / Telemetry Ward Master while assigned to Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora Colorado.
Squad / Team Leader while assigned to the Filed Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division Garlstadt Germany also served as the 2nd Armored Division Band Master supporting the troops and the community for many occasions.
Fire Support Team Leader while stationed at Ft. Benning Ga., 2/10th Field Artillery.
Forward Observer while assigned to the Filed Artillery 2nd Infantry Brigade Camp Stanley Korea in support of the 1/23rd Infantry Unit.
EDUCATION
MASTERS OF SCIENCE
Trinity College and University GPA 4.0
Thesis: Direction of Management Strategy in the Next Century
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Health Service Administration
Century University GPA 3.8
LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE - Columbus Technical Institute
Licensed in Texas and Georgia GPA 3.9
SKILLS
Highly proficient in Micro-soft office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) Not afraid to ask questions
Supports chain of command
OSHA Compliance and Workplace Safety
Effectively handles pressure and stress Executes tasks expediently and correctly
Great personal dive Polished in the areas of accreditations, NCCHA, ACA, JCAHO
Contributes 110 percent to team effort CPR Certified
Skillful in identifying / thinking through situations Equal Employee Opportunity Representative (military trained)
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