GK

Gaytri Kumar

Highlights

Clinical Quality, Population Health & Safety Expert also certified as a Physician Assistant with 13 years of experience in multiple specialties and complex health organizations as well as lengthy experience in the home health care environment.  Diverse hospital administration and health-tech start up experience building Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Population Health & Clinical Quality programs while maintaining NCQA PCMH accreditation Clinical subject matter expert in Clinical Data Analysis and Product Collaboration  Proficient in multiple EMR systems, project management tools and strategic LEAN principles  Clinically skilled in Primary Care, Hospital Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Nephrology and Oncology. 

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Education

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bachelor of science

st. john’s university
2012
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bachelor of science

st. john’s university
2012

Work & Experience

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Physician Assistant

Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY

4 years 9 months of experience

2016 - 2021
Directed and trained multiple new Physician Assistants Maintained interpersonal trust while independently managing private patients and synergistically caring for hospitalist patients. Fast-paced environment with weekly unit and patient Built versatile clinical experience when floated to emergency room and oncology floors.
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Quality & Patient Safety Specialist

New York Presbyterian Hospital

3 years of experience

2017 - 2021
Championed multiple quality and safety improvement initiatives/projects with executive leadership; cultivating a performance based LEAN process through a focus on data metrics.Served as Quality escort and project manager during Joint Commission (JCAHO) site audits Served as a Clinical Analytic partner for multiple medical subspecialty departments Led Quality Improvement meetings for multiple medical subspecialties Trained organizational leadership and frontline staff regarding ‘Just Culture’ principles and hospital regulatory policies. Scaled from 1 to 3 hospital sites with staff expansion of 171%, later streamlining processes catered to a 47% decrease in team size Led cross-functional Root Cause Analyses from event reporting to resolution and execution of mitigation strategies. Standardized manual adverse events tracking system, and implemented it’s success at 7 more hospitals.