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Lisa completed her licensed risk management training at University of South Florida. She has extensive background in ASC licensing and accreditation, policies and procedures, and compliance. She focuses on financial benchmarking, analytics, quality metrics, regulatory research and report preparation. In addition to knowledge of regulations of ambulatory surgery centers and office-based surgical practices, she provides research assistance to other team members in the field and sends communiqués to surgery centers on regulatory updates, trends on compliance issues, safety alerts, and maintains the client assessible SharePoint database
Tammy’s experience includes over sixteen years as an eye surgery center administrator and several years as a consultant to single and multi-specialty surgery centers. She is an accreditation surveyor for AAAHC and a certified professional in healthcare risk manager (CPHRM). She works with new surgery centers preparing for opening, licensing, certification and accreditation. Tammy provides on-site training at surgery centers, coaching best practices. Her experience in managing surgery centers provides exceptional value to clients, understanding their financial and patient experience objectives as well as compliance and patient safety goals. Tammy manages development projects, conducts audits and prepares clients for accreditation and certification, regardless of the accreditation organization selected by the client.
Patty, a certified surgical technician, an EMT, and a certified healthcare risk manager (CPHRM), has extensive experience in ambulatory surgery, office based surgery, and office management. She was the administrator for a Florida licensed surgery center that was Medicare Certified, AAAASF and, later, AAAHC accredited. She also served as the practice manager for the physician group, responsible for all areas of staff, clinic and business management. Her expertise in regulatory compliance and project management led the surgery center through numerous successful inspections by the State and accreditation organizations. Patty’s additional training since joining Ambulatory Strategies Inc. has concentrated in Life Safety Code compliance where she has received certification in several elements.
Tony directed risk management programs for various health care organizations prior to working with Ambulatory Strategies. As a surveyor for AAAHC, he is credentialed to be a survey team leader and perform Medicare Deemed Status surveys. These AAAHC surveys give Tony a unique perspective on various methods of approaching and documenting compliance. Tony is bilingual and conducts risk management and accreditation surveys throughout the United States, South and Central America. He has extensive experience in health system nursing services management through his work at a large Miami hospital system.
Pat’s experience as administrator of surgery centers for over 20 years results in unsurpassed expertise in compliance, accreditation, staffing, materials management, quality improvement and risk management. As administrator of an orthopedic surgery center and a multi-specialty surgery center, she worked to grow the volume, decrease expenses and oversee the revenue cycle. Her depth of experience with both The Joint Commission and AAAHC accreditation programs has assisted clients in preparation as well as instilling a commitment to being prepared every day.