Dennis Morales

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT DENNIS MORALES

My passion is healthcare. I love to help people, whether that is by having a direct impact on their care as a volunteer Paramedic or indirectly by some other means. I just like to help! It\'s how I was raised and what I\'ve been doing for as long as I can remember.I am a hard worker that pays meticulous attention to details and always exhibits an excellent work ethic. I love to work on projects that let me think big picture and out of the box. Particularly strategic planning, process improvement and business development. Basically, any project that lets me have real impact, while teaching me something along the way. I hope to one day work for an iconic healthcare company that successfully carries out its mission while operating on the cutting edge. I am always looking to learn and improve my skills while working outside of my comfort have experience operating unique programs that all have a value-based care goal. Some examples include:• FUNDING SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: Partnering with supportive housing providers in the Richmond community to help provide transitional, stable housing for high utilizers of our ED, thereby reducing their utilization and reducing our overall cost• MEDICARE SHARED SAVINGS PROGRAMS: Overseeing a successful Medicare BPCI-A program and standing up the nurse navigation/social work team that manages a 300 patient census for 90-day episodes of care where VCU carries upside and downside risk for each patient• CONTINUING CARE NETWORK: Strengthening and maintaining relationships with community partners (food banks, SNFs, DME provider, etc.) to build a reliable Continuing Care Network that our health system utilizes to reduce LOS, reduce readmissions and continue our high quality care outside the walls of the hospital• HOME HOSPITAL: With the relationships that I built managing our CCN, we had plenty of trusted partners in the community for our health system to lean on when we launched our Home Hospital program in January 2023.• REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING: I oversee a remote patient monitoring program with a twist. Its focus is on monitoring patients that are identified as high risk discharges from our hospital. We monitor them for 30 days post discharge and provide 24/7 RN support and scheduled or urgent provider visits virtually. Compared to a control group the enrolled patients have a readmission rate that is 50% of the control group’s. LOS is 1.0 day shorter because our inpatient providers feel more comfortable sending patients home with this service.