Healthcare Administrator & Physician
Dr Bondugula is a senior physician executive and healthcare administrator with more than 25 years of combined experience in:
AI
Hospital Administration
Graduate Medical Education
Patient Care
Population Health
Healthcare Informatics
Digital Transformation
Health Innovation
North Alabama Medical Center, Florence
As a senior healthcare leader at NAMC, Dr Chandra actively led the day-to-day hospital operations and played a key role in physicians and hospital staff recruitment. He engaged medical staff and operations teams in achieving process improvement, health IT implementation, and adoption.
Dr. Bondugula Works
Optimized the Analytics software and identified care variation among providers.
Created the social work internship partnership between ECM Hospital and the University of North Alabama.
Optimized ED workflow process, improving the patient flow from ED to floors/ units.
Led the optimization of the Ambulatory Surgery Center workflow.
Led the design and development of the NAMC website.
Coordinated the CON application to transfer Psych beds from ECM Hospital to Shoals Hospital.
Led the community support for the CON Cancer Center application.
EHR implementation
CPOE training, Order sets, e-prescription, MU stage 2, and patient portal
Co-Management Program
Dr Bondugula successfully led the Physicians driven Internal Medicine Co-Management Value-based Program for three consecutive years (2015- 2018) focused on improving quality and decreasing the cost of care. He directed more than 40 process improvement teams with a success rate of 65 %.
He has chaired committees on antibiotic stewardship, critical care stewardship, CPOE implementation, Readmission Reduction Program (AMI, CHF, COPD, Pneumonia), and many more.
Co-Management Program Results
- Optimized Sepsis Care.
- Optimized Critical Care Stewardship Program.
- Clinical Waste and Supply Cost Reduction Plan.
- Decreased the Average Length of Stay and Observations of the Length of stay.
- Decreased Case-Mix Adjusted Length of Stay (CMALOS)
- Increased Peer to Peer Review
- Decreased Ventilator Days in Critical Care Units
- Improved HCAHPS Score, Doctor Communication
- Decreased Hospital-Acquired Conditions: CAUTI, CLABSI, MRSA and C. Diff
- Case Mix Index (CMI)
He was primarily responsible for the initiation of the Blood Management Program focused on educating hospital staff on current evidence-based guidelines for Blood product usage.
This resulted in savings of $559,000 in 12 months.