PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

 

Pediatric Asthma Disease Management Program

Designed, built the infrastructure, operationalized and managed the daily operations of a highly visible, multi-faceted chronic disease management program, ultimately bringing it to sustainability as part of the standard of care.

  • Designed, implemented, operationalized and managed the daily operations of a highly visible, multi-faceted chronic disease management program in multi-site community health center organization

  • Developed the processes and assessment tools for evidence-based program

  • Developed training program and competency assessments for provision of patient health education, case management and home environmental assessment visits

  • Recruited, trained, coached and appraised the performance of a team of Community Health Workers / Promotoras de Salud

  • Managed a $500,000 annual budget with multiple multi-year private and public grants

  • Developed a training program for primary care physicians to improve and standardize the delivery of evidence-based asthma clinical care

  • Implemented pulmonary function testing (spirometry) for pediatricians and support teams in multiple health center sites

  • Acquired multi-year contracts with the largest public health plan in the country to provide home-based patient education and home environmental assessments for plan members with asthma

  • Developed and implemented clinical and health education encounter notes on the EPIC electronic health record systems with embedded outcome and process measures

  • Implemented a Quality Improvement program using the Continuous Improvement Model with evaluation of outcome and process measures

  • Established and managed multiple partnerships and collaborative projects with community partners


Childhood Obesity Prevention Program

  • Assessed the outcomes, operations, processes and financials of a ten-year old childhood obesity prevention program with multi-site class based structure for the purposes of redesign

  • Planned and implemented the redesign of all aspects of program

  • Developed partnerships with community based organizations, LAUSD schools, and health plans

  • Develop the structure of a reimbursement model for group visits

 

Health Education Program

  • Developed and implement a new system-wide health education program

  • Redesigned the organization’s childhood obesity prevention program

  • Hired, trained, coached and evaluated the performance of a team of health educators

  • Served as subject matter expert on health education, behavior change theory and chronic disease management

  • Partnered with community based organizations to conduct workshops, health education classes, and events at health center sites

  • Designed an evaluation program with clinical outcome and process measures, improvement strategies according to the PDSA cycle

Other Programs, 2016-2020

  • Thrive After Cancer: A Breast Cancer Psychoeducational Program (12 months)

  • Patient and Family Welcome and Orientation (redesign)

  • Caregivers Connect, a support group for caregivers of cancer patients

  • Skin, Hair and Nails After Starting Treatment: addressing the cutaneous side-effects of targeted cancer treatment