In her role with TransforMED as a practice enhancement facilitator, Sheila Richmeier assists primary care practices with implementing the Patient Centered Care model. Richmeier has a rich background in health care with more than 20 years of experience in multiple medical settings as a clinician and a practice administrator. Her experience includes hospital and community settings (home health and physician's offices).
Her medical practice experience began in the late '90s when she was a nursing supervisor of an urgent care center in a 55 physician multi-specialty practice. She also managed workers compensation and risk management. Because of her operational wisdom, she provided assessments and managed other nursing departments. She was later hired as a practice manager in addition to providing consulting services to medical practices and presentations to various healthcare organizations.
Richmeier is proficient in financial and business office operations while identifying creative methods in determining clinical staffing needs and efficiencies. Throughout her practice management career, she has managed several primary care clinics and a general surgery practice. Each of these practices has offered challenges in both clinical and business operations. She has excelled in identifying areas to increase operational efficiencies.
Richmeier completed her master's in nursing administration from the University of Kansas School of Nursing and is a Certified Medical Practice Executive in the American College of Medical Practice Executives.
Leading Your Clinical Team: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimizing Productivity and Quality
Practice managers – new and experienced – without a clinical background will find the information in this book to be a quick overview as well as a handy desk reference that provides ongoing solutions for measuring and improving efficiency in the office.
Written to assist clinical and nonclinical managers alike, this book also provides guidance on tough-to-tackle issues such as the nurse-physician relationship, nurses as gatekeepers, nursing performance problems, favoritism, bad apples, problem or disruptive physicians, physician assistants vs. nurse practitioners, costs and benefits of midlevel providers and much, much more.