Christopher Hoffman

HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT in WOUND CARE and EMERGENCY SERVICES
Meticulous Healthcare professional who undertakes complex assignments, meets tight deadlines and delivers superior performance. Possesses practical knowledge with clinical experience and education in Emergency Medical services x 25 + years, Critical Care emergency/Trauma Department, Organ & Tissue donation. Operates in a strong sense of urgency and thrives in a fast paced setting. CORE competencies include:
Strategic planning, new business development, customer relations, Fiscal planning, budget, marketing of business promotions, staff training, payroll, emergency medical services, business development, prioritizing and managing deadlines, problem resolutions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HEALOGICS INC, NORTH CAROLINA- JUNE 2013 ~ NOVEMBER 2014
The Nation’s largest provider of advanced wound healing services.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
• Providing day-to-day management oversight for wound and Hyperbaric Centers. • Continuously analyzing systems and processes
• Monitoring clinic flow to improve efficiencies and productivity. • Managing, coordinating all aspects of the revenue cycle, scheduling, registration, treatment authorization, documentation, coding, charge entry, billing, collections and, denial processes. • Implementing audit and reconciliation processes to ensure accuracy. Regularly reviews the Charge Description Master and Physician and medical superbills to ensure appropriate reimbursement. Conducts chart audits to monitor and ensure documentation in compliance with HIPPA and JACHO.
• Reviewing and analyzing key financial reports, identifying key indicator trends and developing plans to ensure best practices are implemented to appropriately maximize clinic and overall program profitability and/or address variances.

• Recruiting, interviewing, hiring and managing personnel • Establishing performance expectations, providing regular feedback and consistently managing these expectations. Completing performance appraisals, promoting staff development activities, utilizing performance improvement procedures as necessary, and adhering to the hospital/company policies and procedures.
DUKE UNIVERSITY LIFE FLIGHT – NORTH CAROLINA: SEPTEMBER 2012 ~ MAY 2013 the first hospital based medical helicopter service in North Carolina.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN
• Accurate vehicle checks in order to ensure proper readiness for emergency vehicle response. Scene size-up, evaluation of scene to determine additional resources. Evaluated patient care needs, prioritized treatment, provide emergency medical care to sick and injured consisting of minor to traumatic and maintained patient flow.
• Help to resuscitate patients in an emergency before hospital admission, Provide medical assistance during emergency situations, such as CPR, AED, prevent shock, control severe bleeding, prevent spinal damage, etc. Perform endotracheal intubations
• Evaluate a patient’s condition to determine the right course of treatment, assist with flight operations of pre and post patient flight transfers.
CANDESCENT HEALING INC, NEW JERSEY: JUNE 2008 ~ JULY 2012 provides comprehensive wound care management services that enable partner centers to establish the best in class wound care centers. Excellence in Wound cares for over a decade.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
• Provide day to day management, plan strategically, implementing the growth and development of new programs. Responsible for setting budget revenues, fiscal reports, cost effective management. Implement employment postings, interview and hiring process. Ensuring compliance with all local and Federal agencies. •ensure production efficiency, service, and cost effective management with quality management. Recommend objectives & planning, set department goals. Supervision of staff 15 plus and staff payroll. Develop staff responsibilities, complete annual performance reviews. Responsible for training. Exceeded based schedule revenue greater than 90% focused of key financial revenue over a 7 month time frame, placing new business centers 2 years ahead of schedule Achievement of placing new center 2 years ahead of schedule accumulating a two million dollar revenue in a seven month period.
Monroe Municipal Emergency Medical Services; New Jersey, March 2005 - September 2012 Monroe Township Municipal Emergency Medical Services answered nearly 7,000 emergency calls every year, Trained more than 2,850 people that are members of local EMT's, Firefighters, the Police Department, Township school nurses, adult communities, and nursing facilities. The training includes everything from CPR and basic first aid, as well as training Township personnel in state disaster preparedness procedures.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN
• Properly assess the patient’s condition and to quickly determine the course of action necessary in traumatic emergencies to stabilize the patient, Help to resuscitate patients in an emergency before hospital admission, provide medical assistance during emergency situations, such as CPR, AED, prevent shock, control severe bleeding, vehicle extrication, treat for spinal injures.
• Evaluate a patient’s condition to determine the right course of treatment
• Monitor patient’s condition and keep it stable while en route to the hospital
• Aid in the transfer of patients to the emergency units of hospitals
CERTIFICATIONS
Emergency Medical Technician ~ North Carolina: Cert # P083705
Emergency Medical Healthcare, CERTIFIED ~NOVEMBER 1989 CERT # 556313
EDUCATION
ASSOCIATES DEGREE HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT & SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY HARRISON CAREER INST. ~ DELRAN NEW JERSEY 2002
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Emergency Vehicle Operations defensive & Offensive ~ CEVO
• HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
• Introduction to Hyperbaric medicine: West Chester Medical Center, Vahalla NY
• Wound Care and Hyperbaric Management
• Emergency Medical Services
• Critical Care Patient Technician (Multi-skill tech)
• EKG/Phlebotomy
• Tactical EMS
• Tactical EMS, Hostage situations, CISM
• Surface Ice/Water Rescue Technician I
• ICS: 100, 200, 300, 400,NIMS 700 & 800
• PHTLS
• ITLS
• EMD (emergency Medical Dispatching)
• EMS Communications (MedCom – Virtua Health)
• PROFICIENT IN Microsoft office suites, advanced Excel, word, PowerPoint, Outlook
• EMS tough book

NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES
• Hazardous materials awareness
• Hazardous materials Operations
• Search, Rescue and recovery operations
MIDDLESEX COUNTY FIRE ACADEMY, NEW JERSEY UNITED STATES
• Incident Safety Officer
• Confined Space Rescue technician
• Wild~life forestry search and rescue
GLOUCESTER COUNTY FIRE ACDEMY
• Firefighter I, Firefighter II