Interim Stroke Coordinator

Position

Healthcare Executive Placements, Inc. (HCEPInc) is seeking an Interim Stroke Coordinator for a W2 Contract position based in Baldwin Park, CA.

Schedule: Full time, Day shift, Monday through Friday, 8am-4:30pm.

Assignment Duration: 13 Weeks.

Compensation: This position offers a daily rate of $700 to $750 which equates to $3,500 to $3,750 per week (based on a 5‑day workweek).
Per Diems: Lodging: $191 per day and Meals & Incidentals: $86 per day. Per diems are paid daily, 7 days a week, totaling $1,939 per week.
Total Weekly Compensation (Daily Rate + Per Diems): Between $5,439 to $5,689 per week.

Benefits: Paid sick leave, Paid holidays, Co‑paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, Cafeteria plan access and 401(k) retirement plan.

The Stroke Coordinator plays a critical role in supporting the hospital's stroke program by ensuring ongoing compliance with American Heart Association (AHA) Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) and The Joint Commission (TJC) standards. This role is responsible for conducting thorough audits of stroke cases, entering and validating clinical data in the AHA GWTG/TJC stroke databases, and providing in-depth analysis of any care fallouts.

The coordinator also leads targeted reviews such as Tenecteplase (TNK) case evaluations and manages EMS‑related activities, including uploading prehospital data and auditing corrective action plans related to EMS survey results. Through detailed tracking, reporting, and inter‑departmental collaboration, the Stroke Coordinator helps drive continuous quality improvement and stroke program excellence.

Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross‑functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self‑leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit.

Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.

Conducts or oversees business‑specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high‑priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals.

Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.

Develops and implements data collection and analyses to support quality improvement efforts by: conducting advanced statistical analysis for quality improvement evaluations, special projects, and other work for multidisciplinary review; investigating opportunities to improve the reporting and narrative summaries of improvements by integrating multiple utilization data reporting systems to develop and maintain a variety of statistical reports in a format which enables care providers to see variations in practice patterns;

presenting quality improvement metric reports to demonstrate improvements and effectiveness of quality improvement programs to department and program managers; and serving as a technical expert to team members, supervisor, and key stakeholders by interpreting trends, potential errors, and other analyses, by assisting in problem resolution for data source analysis, and by advising on the application of results.

Supports in‑depth and advanced quality improvement and risk management efforts by: researching corrective action plans for areas of improvement identified through utilization review, clinical records audit, claim denials, member satisfaction surveys, and auditing surveys for their cost…