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Kimberla Kay Clevenger

Kim is a results oriented, self-motivated, health care professional with over twenty years of diverse and progressive management experience at large tertiary cardiovascular centers.

As the service line executive for one of the largest cardiovascular programs in the United States, Kim was responsible for all facets of service line functioning including: operations, business development, marketing, strategic planning and physicians relations. In this role, she also served as the administrative lead for the development and initiation of pediatric cardiovascular services, establishing a program that successfully competed with a nationally known program.

Kim also had responsibility for the pediatric cardiology clinic, developing a state wide outreach network which included remote echo services and local clinic services.

Achievements:

Successful "launch" of the Heart and Vascular Institute. This included ensuring development and implementation of functional operating plan, customer relations, marketing, budget and financial management of entity. Annual volumes through institute exceeded projections by 30% annually for 2004 and 2005.
Increased overall interventional procedural volumes by 20% annually for 2004 and 2005. Developed and implemented several joint venture relationships with cardiologists/radiologists for noninvasive and invasive services. Current project involves oversight of JV for provision of CT scanning services at the Heart and Vascular Institute.
Successfully negotiated device implant pricing that reduced overall tachy/brady expenses by 750K in first year.
Revised physician privileging and credentialing criteria for all cardiology subspecialties to ensure compliance with regionally and nationally recognized standards of practice.
Developed and implemented innovative governance structure for cardiovascular services.
Initiated numerous marketing campaigns, including implementation of internet/web cardiac screening.
Attained Solucient Top 100 cardiovascular programs for two consecutive years.
Initiated comprehensive quality management program including: ACC and STS database submissions.–Redesign of quality committee structure.
Recruited new cardiology group from another large health system within the Chicago area with national reputation for excellent cardiovascular quality outcomes. Volume impact of this recruitment resulted in a 10% increase in overall cardiovascular business in Year #1.
Developed and implemented programs and new processes aimed at meeting current guidelines from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100K Lives Campaign.
Designed new cost accounting methodologies to track research expenditures.

EDUCATION

Indiana University, Masters in the Science of Nursing, Major: Administration, August 1988
Indiana University, Bachelors in the Science of Nursing, August 1982
Purdue University, Associate in Applied Science of Nursing, May 1975

PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE

State of Indiana