Taha Abbas

Business Administrator @UI Health

Chicago, IL, US

Oversaw staffing, payroll, and scheduling for a multidisciplinary team of 200+ nursing and support staff, ensuring compliance with labor regulations and maintaining optimal staffing levels.• Executed HR transactions including onboarding, separations, resignations, and retirement processing.• Supported full-cycle recruitment efforts—job postings, candidate screening, interviews—to meet unit staffing needs.• Designed and developed a hospital-wide badge buddy tool to improve staff awareness of essential patient care standards and available patient resources.• Led the tracking and management of biennial inventory for NSICU, Stepdown, and the broader critical care division to support budgeting and operational planning.• Co-authored a poster titled “Fostering a Healthy Work Environment: Organizational Benefits of Team Building on Nursing Specialty Units,” selected for presentation at the 2025 AACN NTI Conference (New Orleans), and awarded 2nd place for \"Best Innovation Poster\" during National Nurses Week at UI Health.• Contributed to the business case development and operational launch of the new Neuro Intermediate Care Unit.• Delivered a training session on Axiom software for critical care leadership to support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analytics.• Reduced office supply expenditures by 41% in Neuro ICU and 23% in Neuro Stepdown (from H2 ’24 to H1 ’25) through proactive monitoring and monthly inventory management.• Participated in weekly environmental rounds to assess unit needs, ensuring timely submission and completion of service requests.• Supported FY26 budget development by forecasting staffing needs and estimating fixed operational costs.• Monitored and tracked compliance for ACLS & BLS certifications among nursing staff enrolled in RQI.• Maintained and submitted monthly NDNQI data for Neuro ICU and Stepdown, enabling the Nursing Strategy & Analytics team to drive performance improvement initiatives.

University of Illinois Chicago-College of Business Administration

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing

Institute of Business Administration

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Marketing