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>> My name is Vicki Stewart and I'm a graduate
of the HPA Program from Penn State in 1989

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and I work at University of Maryland Medical
Center as the director of business operations

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for perioperative services, which high level,

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we manage 36 operating rooms
and six endoscopy suites.

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So, perioperative services include all of the
areas surrounding that - the recovery unit,

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the inpatient units, central sterile
processing, and the operating rooms.

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So, I make sure that the surgeons and the
clinicians have the supplies, instruments,

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equipment and information that they need and
handle the business side of the operation

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so that they can focus on the patient.

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I have some clinical informaticians,
nurses, that work for me.

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We manage the information system.

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That includes surgical scheduling,
nursing documentation, billing.

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We manage what are called preference
cards, which are basically recipe cards

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for how each surgeon is going to do
each type of procedure that they need.

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That outlines all of the supplies,
equipment and instrumentation that they need;

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patient positioning, preparation, what kind
of music they like, all of the specifics

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of the case, and so we maintain
that information.

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I have 100 million dollar expense budget,
2/3 of that are supplies, it's a very supply

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and equipment intensive area, so I
manage the supply chain for that area.

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I also procure all of the
capital equipment of the area,

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it's a very intensive area related to equipment.

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We have 17 surgical services that range from
urology, transplant, cardiac surgery, GYN,

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thoracic surgery, vascular, there's
really not much that we don't do.