Rutul Patel

Essen Health Care — Bronx, NY · Promoted from Clinical Assistant

• Serve as acting project manager for a multi-facility nursing home expansion into New Jersey, coordinating rollout, staffing trackers, and clinical program proposals including tele-cardiology diagnostics.
• Lead diagnosis coding validation and ICD-10 audit workflows, building cross-facility tools that reconcile coding against census and provider data.
• Own ADT/CarePort reporting and reconciliation, developing matching pipelines that align consult activity, resident census, and admission-discharge-transfer feeds.
• Produce monthly KPI dashboards and performance reports for medical directors across facilities, supporting data-driven provider management.
• Built provider audit tools in Excel and an Asana-based team tracker to standardize operations and accountability.

Essen Health Care — Bronx, NY

• Reduced nursing home hospitalization rates by 40% by identifying high-risk patients and coordinating timely, targeted care interventions across provider teams.
• Improved provider KPIs and clinical productivity by redesigning workflows and implementing EHR-driven performance tracking.
• Optimized CPT coding metrics and documentation accuracy, supporting revenue-cycle efficiency and value-based care compliance.
• Coordinated annual compliance training across the provider network via the Litmos LMS.
• Collaborated with health IT teams to optimize workflows and troubleshoot EHR systems (SigmaCare, PointClickCare, WellSky).

Sacred Heart University — Fairfield, CT

• Supported faculty with course organization, instructional support, and student engagement across two roles.
• Managed online databases and student profile creation using Oracle Cloud, ensuring accurate records and efficient data management.

New Civil Hospital — Surat, Gujarat, India

• Delivered direct patient care — histories and comprehensive physical exams for ~30 patients daily.
• Assisted in 50+ critical procedures, including intubations and CPR, under high-pressure conditions.
• Interpreted diagnostic tests to inform care plans, improving diagnostic accuracy by 20%.
• Supported COVID-19 response, screening and testing 200+ patients weekly with meticulous documentation.

Sacred Heart University — Fairfield, CT

• Electronic Health Records · Clinical & Business Intelligence · Population Health · Advanced Analytics · Project Management · Database Design

Government Medical College — Surat, Gujarat

• Internal Medicine · Surgery · Oncology · Pathology · Pharmacology · Physiology · Neurology

Manuscript in preparation · M.S. capstone

• Systematic review of diagnostic accuracy, efficiency, and feasibility in low-resource settings, with statistical models evaluating diagnostic performance.

Presented research; featured in Sacred Heart University news

• Career Essentials in Generative AI — Microsoft & LinkedIn (Nov 2024)
• Certificate Course in Management of COVID-19 — PlexusMD (Mar 2021)
• COVID-19 Patient Care Assistant — New Civil Hospital, Surat (2021–22)
• Polio Immunization Volunteer — WHO & Surat Municipal Corporation (2018)