>> So I went to Penn State.
I have an HPA from 1989.
I went into healthcare.
My mom passed away when I was 11.
She had a cerebral aneurysm, so I think I was drawn to health care because of that.
I also have always loved math, and so when I first came out of college,
I worked as a financial analyst at a hospital, so I have a health care finance background.
So my love of math and numbers and finance, combined with my interest in health care,
really drove me in that direction.
I was asked on several occasions to work on some operations improvement projects in the hospital
and I would be running 25 improvement teams related
to infection control clinical documentation,
human resource processes, and that sort of thing.
I ended up in this position because the operating room was having a lot
of business issues.
Their supply chain wasn't working well, their equipment wasn't being properly maintained
and replaced, and this goes back like 15, 20 years.
So I was asked to come assist with that.
And it turned into a full-time job, and something that I learned to love,
and have been able to fix a lot of those issues, which has resulted in improved patient care.