Galloway Alum
sdillon@gallowayconsulting.net
Sarah is a professional Registered Nurse with 25+ years of clinical and management experience within healthcare systems. She has successfully led stabilization of clinical operations and care coordination in existing healthcare facilities across the U.S. and effectively designed Clinical/Quality operational infrastructure at new start-up companies and newly acquired hospitals. This includes implementing processes for healthcare facilities that were and are facing fiscal decline, or regulatory sanctions. She has vast experience working with the Board, senior leadership, physician leaders, and staff designing new processes that create stability, compliance and fiscal responsibility for operations. She positively aligns business metrics and clinical improvement processes to obtain margin success and patient safety.
Experience
- Owner/Principal SJD Associates Healthcare Consulting
- Chief Quality Officer and Vice President Clinical Operations, RCHP
- Appointed CMS faculty “Best Practices Reduction of HAI & HAC’s” in Rural Hospitals. Affiliated with Vanderbilt University Hospital Engagement Network
- Board Member, Federation of American Hospitals- Quality Committee, National Policy Development
- Chief Clinical Officer/Principal, ASPIRE Healthcare Partners
- Associate Vice President – System Resource Management, Province Healthcare
- Advisory Board Member- McKesson InterQual Product Development
- Director- Quality, Risk, Case Management, Utilization Review, Physician Peer Review, Workers Compensation, Employee Health and Infection Prevention, Centennial Medical Center
- Consultant Government Operations- Regulatory Compliance, HCA
- Cardio and Thoracic Oncology Care Coordination, Vanderbilt Clinic and Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Surgical Intensive Care Unit Charge Nurse and staff nurse, Cardiovascular and Transplant, The Department of Veteran Affairs
- Surgical Intensive Care Program Internship – The Department of Veteran Affairs- Nashville
Education
- Bachelor Science Nursing – Austin Peay State University
- Certified Professional Healthcare Quality
- Critical Care Registered Nurse-Certified (VA Internship- Nashville)
