<p>Barton “Bart” L. Sachs, M.D., MBA, FACPE, FACHE - - 12 January 2015</p><p>Bart Sachs, M.D. is the Chief of Staff & Chief Administrative Officer for Medical University of South Carolina. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. As an Orthopaedic spine surgeon, he maintains fellowship in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American College of Spine Surgeons.</p><p>In his current role at MUSC, he is responsible for initiatives in: patient experience, enterprise innovation, health advocacy, enhancing MUSC healthcare value proposition, moving to time driven activity based cost accounting, advanced practice providers coordination throughout the organization, and promoting education and training for MHA and APP students. </p><p>Dr. Sachs has been instrumental in leading MUSC in changes that improve the healthcare environment in: access, quality, cost effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and supply chain management. Examples of his work on quality programs demonstrated: the benefits of improved patient care of iatrogenic pressure ulcers with hospital cost savings of $5.44 M. He initiated a program to reduce contamination of healthcare workers from sharp penetrating needle sticks. He has developed innovative ways of reshaping the MUSC health provider workforce, through coordinated teams with Advanced Practice Providers. He led a team that identified MUSC emotionally intelligent / high performance work teams; their report received the Press Ganey 2014 Annual Success Story Award. Also, the work was used to develop a high performance leadership training program. </p><p>He has led teams and committees for Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) that created a $4.3 M impact in a five-month period. He supervised coordination and merger of departments of utilization review and case management social work, while maintaining average patient length of stay (LOS) for MUSC at 7th nationally. During his term as CMO, he was an integral member of senior leadership that moved his hospital ranking by University Healthcare Consortium (UHC) to Top 25 national Academic Institutions.</p><p>In his roles, he helped fashion, supervise, coordinate, and implement a number of institutional service line endeavors. Through his work with supply chain management, he collaborated on various projects from perioperative services that improved resource utilization and maintained quality patient care. Specifically, one project saved the university medical center: - $5 M during 2009 and an additional - $4 M in 2010 related to surgical implants and supplies.</p><p>He had past success in both academic university medical centers (The Tufts-New England Medical Center and The Albany Medical Center) and private multidisciplinary large specialty care practice (The Texas Back Institute.) He was cited by Becker's, i n 2 0 1 0 a n d 2 0 1 2 , as one of the "Top Ten Academic Spine Surgeons to Know." </p>