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SUE ELLEN SMITH, PRINCIPLE & FOUNDER
RN, MHA, BSN, CNOR

SUE ELLEN SMITH, PRINCIPLE & FOUNDER
RN, MHA, BSN, CNOR

SUE SMITH has over 30 years of healthcare and surgery program experience. This includes 15 years of managing surgical services programs in both acute hospital and ambulatory care settings. Her expertise is organization design and management development, strategic and facility planning, clinical program design, development and implementation, organization improvement, equipment and supply systems evaluation, policy and procedure development, project management and staff leadership. Ms. Smith’s vast hands-on experience had a significant impact for her consulting assignments at D.J. Sullivan & Associates and Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. Consulting and Services Division.

SUE ELLEN SMITH, RN, MHA, BSN, CNOR, Principle & Founder - SMI Group
SUE ELLEN SMITH, RN, MHA, BSN, CNOR, Principle & Founder - SMI Group

As Principal and Founder of the Surgery Management Improvement Group Inc. she is responsible for the Clinical Service Line — all clinical programs and services provided by perioperative consultants. During her professional career, Ms. Smith has:

  • led the design and implementation planning of surgical services organization, management and clinical practice, integrating and standardizing programs and processes across a five hospital system.
  • led the design and implementation of a Surgical Patient Safety program and OR Quality Indicator Monitoring System for a large teaching hospital.
  • organized and implemented team nursing/specialty cluster and management structures to optimize staff development and improve quality of services.
  • chaired a task force through the search, selection and implementation of an OR Information System which provided scheduling, electronic charging, management reporting and perioperative documentation.
  • led a task force to determine the feasibility of and then integrate the surgery scheduling functions with a hospital wide central appointment and preadmission scheduling program. Successfully transitioned a scheduling office to the provision of a “one call” service for physicians and their offices for scheduling surgical procedures/admissions/testing.
  • collaborated with the Department of Gynecology to develop and implement one of the first successful Invitro Fertilization programs in the United States.
  • planned, designed, and monitored construction and opening of a six room OR suite and support area addition.
  • developed staffing patterns for the operating room based on data identifying peak volume times to assure staff availability to meet caseload demand.

Ms. Smith earned her Masters Degree in Health Services Administration through the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from the University of Michigan School of Nursing. She is a member of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, has achieved certification in perioperative nursing, has served as Chair of Specialty Assembly in Business and Industry, and serves on the Ambulatory Surgery and Management Specialty Assemblies. She has been a speaker at national AORN and other regional and local conferences.