Denise C. Tatum
Chief Executive Officer
Toledo, OH · (419) 555 0108 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/denisectatum
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Twenty six years in hospital operations, seven as chief executive officer of a community hospital.
SETTINGS
310 bed community hospital, 2,100 employees, 480 medical staff members, operating budget of 620 million dollars.
SPECIALTIES
Operating budget stewardship, service line growth, labor productivity, workforce retention, and community benefit strategy.
SYSTEMS
Epic Hyperspace across the hospital, an enterprise quality reporting warehouse, and a labor productivity and staffing analytics tool.
LICENSURE
Ohio Board of Nursing registered nurse license number 348771, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Toledo, with a Master of Health Administration from Ohio State University.
Results at a Glance
$74m
Four years
$890
Clinical variation program
1%
Plan for six
Executive Summary
Chief executive officer of a 310 bed community hospital with 2,100 employees and an annual operating budget of 620 million dollars. Started as a medical surgical nurse in the same city, and has spent seven years running the hospital that once turned her down for a charge nurse post.
Signature Achievements
- Grew orthopedic and cardiovascular service line revenue by 74 million dollars over four years by recruiting fourteen specialists and opening a joint replacement center.
- Improved worked hours per adjusted patient day from 5.9 to 5.2 across three years while nursing vacancy fell from 19 percent to 6 percent.
- Reduced direct cost per case by 890 dollars through a clinical variation program run jointly with the medical staff.
- Lifted the hospital star rating from two to four and moved patient experience results into the top quartile of Ohio hospitals.
- Held the operating budget within 1 percent of plan for six consecutive years, including two years of severe agency staffing pressure.
- Opened a behavioral health unit of eighteen beds that ended the practice of boarding psychiatric patients in the emergency department overnight.
Professional Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Maumee Bay Community Hospital, Toledo, OH 2019 to present
310 bed community hospital with 2,100 employees, 480 medical staff members and an operating budget of 620 million dollars.
- Accountable to the hospital board for clinical quality, operating performance, workforce and community standing.
- Leads an executive team of eight including the chief medical officer, chief nursing officer and chief financial officer.
- Sets the annual operating budget and the three year service line plan and defends both to the system board.
- Chairs the community benefit committee that directs 9 million dollars a year of local health investment.
Chief Operating Officer
Black Swamp Regional Health, Findlay, OH 2014 to 2019
Two hospital organization of 400 combined beds where the operating role covered all clinical and support departments.
- Ran daily operations for both hospitals including surgical services, imaging, laboratory, pharmacy and facilities.
- Reduced emergency department boarding hours by 51 percent through a bed management and discharge planning overhaul.
- Led the labor productivity program that saved 11 million dollars a year without reducing direct care staffing ratios.
Chief Nursing Officer
Sandusky Bay Medical Center, Sandusky, OH 2009 to 2014
180 bed hospital where nursing leadership covered inpatient units, the emergency department and perioperative services.
- Led the hospital to Magnet recognition on its first application with a nursing workforce of 420.
- Cut catheter associated urinary tract infection and hospital acquired pressure injury rates by more than half.
- Built the nurse residency program that raised first year retention from 68 percent to 91 percent.
Licensure and Certification
Ohio Board of Nursing, registered nurse license number 348771, active
Passed the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses in 1996
Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives since 2016
Board of trustees, Northwest Ohio Health Coalition, 2020 to present
Board member, Toledo Regional Workforce Partnership, 2021 to present
Education
Master of Health Administration, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2011
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 2000
Associate Degree in Nursing, Owens Community College, Perrysburg, Ohio, 1996
Governance certificate for hospital trustees, American Hospital Association, 2020
Core Skills
Hospital operating leadership · Service line growth planning · Labor productivity management · Executive team development · Board and trustee relations · Workforce retention strategy · Behavioral health capacity planning · Community benefit investment · Quality and star rating oversight · Nursing workforce advocacy