Simone A. Stancil
Hospitalist Physician and Group Lead
Nashville, TN · (615) 555 0153 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/simoneastancil
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Fourteen years of adult inpatient medicine, the last six as hospitalist group lead.
SETTINGS
Community teaching hospital of 340 beds with a closed intensive care unit and a twenty bed observation unit.
SPECIALTIES
General inpatient medicine, care progression, sepsis management, and preoperative medical consultation.
SYSTEMS
Epic Hyperspace, Epic Clarity reporting, and the secure messaging tool built into the electronic health record.
LICENSURE
Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners license number 0049117, certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, with internal medicine residency at Ohio State University.
Executive Summary
Board certified internal medicine physician with fourteen years on inpatient services and a daily census that runs between sixteen and twenty patients. Leads a hospitalist group of eighteen clinicians at a 340 bed community teaching hospital. Shortens length of stay without pushing readmissions and teaches residents at the bedside every rotation.
Signature Achievements
- Brought average length of stay on the medicine service from 5.1 days to 4.3 days over two years while the thirty day readmission rate held at 14 percent.
- Built a morning discharge routine that lifted discharges before noon from 11 percent to 29 percent, opening beds for the emergency department by early afternoon.
- Led the sepsis bundle rework that raised three hour bundle compliance from 62 percent to 91 percent and lowered sepsis mortality by nine percent across eighteen months.
- Recruited and onboarded nine hospitalists in three years, moving the group from agency coverage on 40 percent of nights to a fully employed night team.
- Replaced verbal shift handoff with a structured written format, after which medication errors at transitions of care fell by roughly one third in twelve months.
- Works as physician advisor to utilization review and cut denied inpatient days by 1,900 in the most recent fiscal year.
Professional Experience
Hospitalist Physician and Group Lead
Cumberland Valley Medical Center, Nashville, TN 2018 to present
Hospitalist group of eighteen clinicians covering general medicine, observation and the stroke unit in a 340 bed teaching hospital.
- Sets the daily staffing model, admission caps and swing shift, and carries a full clinical census two weeks in three.
- Chairs the care progression huddle with case management, therapy and pharmacy, tracking every patient waiting on a placement barrier.
- Supervises internal medicine residents and third year students, with teaching evaluations averaging 4.7 out of 5 across four academic years.
- Sits on the pharmacy and therapeutics committee and rewrote the anticoagulation order set now used across the hospital.
Hospitalist Physician
Harpeth River Regional Hospital, Franklin, TN 2014 to 2018
180 bed community hospital with an open intensive care unit, no residency program and heavy postoperative consultation volume.
- Carried an average census of nineteen patients on a seven on and seven off schedule with night cross coverage.
- Started the preoperative medical clinic that reviewed 600 surgical patients a year and reduced day of surgery cancellations.
- Served as the physician champion for the transition to a new electronic health record across the medicine service.
Internal Medicine Hospitalist
Watauga Valley Hospital, Johnson City, TN 2012 to 2014
First attending post in a 120 bed rural referral hospital serving eight counties in the eastern part of the state.
- Admitted and managed unselected adult medicine patients including alcohol withdrawal, decompensated heart failure and diabetic emergencies.
- Stabilized and arranged transfer for patients needing cardiac catheterization or neurosurgery at the nearest tertiary center.
- Built the hospital first standardized order set for community acquired pneumonia with the quality department.
Licensure and Certification
Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, physician and surgeon license number 0049117, active
American Board of Internal Medicine, board certified, most recent maintenance cycle completed 2021
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support provider and course instructor, current
Education
Doctor of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, 2009
Internal medicine residency, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2012
Bachelor of Science in biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2005
Core Skills
Inpatient adult medicine · Care progression and throughput · Sepsis recognition and treatment · Preoperative risk assessment · Resident bedside teaching · Utilization review advising · Order set design · Clinical staffing models · Transitions of care · Antimicrobial stewardship participation