nps brian weihs

Responsible for residential and commercial estimates, sales and project production management. My focus is on building brand name loyalty through exceptional customer experiences, developing long-term relational clients and establishing future referrals.

Responsible for helping to identify, implement and assist clients in cost reduction, improved safety, clinical efficiencies, and optimal patient outcomes utilizing best practices; Point-of-Care. This is accomplished through the adoption, sales and expanded utilization of the Siemens Point of Care EPOC system product line. Using a clinically superior product, we provide faster, more accurate, actionable clinical results, while reducing cost, and margin of human error. By working with our clients, and analysis of their current volumes, practice and costs, we are able to demonstrate and assure cost reductions, and competitive advantages with the adaptation of the EPOC system.

Partnering with your clinical and administrative teams to ensure the best possible patient and financial outcomes, through optimal clinical devices/support, clinical collaboration, process management via real time actionable data.

Meet daily instructional and departmental objectives. Ensure highest continuous patient care standards, while meeting all regulatory and financial commitments. Hire, retain and develop staff to ensure best practice and cohesive multi-disciplinary patient care and outcomes. Working in small and large hospitals with department sizes from 18-67. 11/2011- 06/2014 Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Yakima, WA – Md. Community Hospital Accomplishments: Implemented a new outpatient service line; Bronchial Thermoplasty. First procedure site in Washington State / ROI under 10 months. Increased outpatient volumes by 10%. / Decreased costs by 8% / Increased revenue capture and compliance by 18%. Staff of 30.

Responsible for the general operations and staffing for a department of more than 50 employees. I had oversight of therapists in all areas of clinical care, and through all patient populations and specialties. Responsible for department supply management, equipment trials and acquisition, quality assurance, cost containment, and vender relationships. I co-chaired our departmental councils, and was an active member on several inter-disciplinary hospital councils, focused on patient safety and improvement initiatives. I was involved in all facets of day to day department operations, and staff management; hiring, evaluations, terminations, scheduling, etc., while balancing these needs with patient acuity, skills needs, and productivity measures. Staff of 67.

Responsible for administrative and financial oversight of the Respiratory Therapy Department, and the above mentioned related departments as listed in my title. Responsibilities included the following and more; day to day operations, staffing, scheduling, supplies, policy implementation, service line growth, while assuring billing and regulatory compliance and safe quality patient care. Maintaining strong interdisciplinary communications and working on shared departmental projects with physicians and other department heads. A) Grew a new outpatient service line; Navigational Bronchoscopy with physicians, ROI, 28 months. B) Implemented a new medication delivery procedure with the hospital pharmacy to reduce operational cost to the institution and patients while improving quality of care, approximate annual savings of $97k. C) Purchased and updated pulmonary equipment; ROI, 8 months. D) Increased patient volumes to our Sleep Lab by over 30% through direct physician interaction and influence for referrals. Staff of 18.

The management team is responsible for all shifts and staff, for daily departmental operations to all areas of the hospital, (NICU under nursing management). As part of a team I conducted staff evaluations, interviews, discipline, and termination. I actively engaged in policy/procedure, protocol development with the medical director(s), and quality improvement initiatives, implementation and adherence. I was part of the audit process for clinical, regulatory, and Join Commission compliance assurance. I was involved in our hospital wide electronic documentation implementation. Completed Six Sigma training process as a Green Belt, and was part of the change facilitation and process improvement resource pool for the institution. Staff of 38.

All aspects of general respiratory disciplines and responsibilities, routine medication administration, assessment and tests consistent with the professional national and state standards and scope of care for licensed respiratory care practitioners as an advanced practitioner RRT, and NPS credentialed. Intubation, Surfactant administration , vent management, Heliox, Nitric Oxide, protocol weaning, trauma response, transport, ABG analysis, high risk delivery, code response, proficient in all patient populations; ED, ICU, PICU, NICU. 10/2003 – 8/2005 Providence Alaska Medical Center Anchorage, AK– Lg. Community Neonatal and Trauma Hospital - NICU - Level III Respiratory Therapist - 38 Bed Unit

Thirty bed unit ( 15 acute / 15 step down), staffed with a single therapist, responsible for attending all “high-risk” deliveries, and implementation of all appropriate supportive modes of ventilatory support; Jet, Oscillator, Conventional Vent, CPAP, etc. Responsible for intubations and airway management, the acquisition and analysis of blood gasses, to validate appropriate changes in respiratory support. Maintenance of lab/blood gas equipment, and attending to respiratory patients; ante partum/post partum, in the Labor & Delivery department and in the post-op OB-GYN adult arenas. Phlebotomy responsibilities for the NICU.

Implementation and management of various oxygen modalities, invasive/non-invasive, and developmental. Management of all forms of conventional/ non-conventional ventilatory support (Inverse I:E, High frequency, Jet, Oscillator etc.). Special gasses implementation and management, including: Nitric Oxide, Heliox, and some anesthetic. All forms of routine pulmonary medication administration, and new “study” or “rescue” interventions where and when appropriate, as consistent with Level IV teaching medical institutions. Responder to all pediatric arrests and arriving traumas that required airway management in the E.R, or Heliport. Active member on the E.C.M.O. (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) team, involved in managing all aspects of the patient’s medical and hemodynamic needs while on heart and lung bypass support. In addition to ECMO clinical responsibilities, I was also involved with; in-services, mentoring other practitioners, and a team educator of other institutions starting their own ECMO programs.

Capital Medical Equipment Sales for Washington, Oregon and Alaska Responsible for maintaining and growth of both existing accounts and the opening of net new accounts in this territory. Additionally, increasing the use of single patient use supporting disposable supplies to support the capital device. Accomplishments: Finished 7th overall in company sales for 2015. Increased net new accounts in territory by 41% in 14 months. Increased growth in existing accounts by 21%. Instrumental in closing largest children’s hospital in company history, 2nd largest single account conversion in company history (number of units purchased), and complete therapy/technology conversion. I perform consistently well, hitting objectives and finishing in the top 10. Presidents club, number one for sales; Q2, 2016.

Activities and Societies: Dean’s List, Student Class President, Health Sciences Division Award Recipient from School and Sate