Cactus Healthcare Resources
Patrick O'Connor is a seasoned healthcare professional with extensive experience in population health analysis and project management across prominent healthcare organizations. As a Senior Consultant at Cactus Healthcare Resources since April 2022, Patrick has previously held roles such as Enterprise Population Health Analyst at UC San Diego Health and Project Manager for Network Operations at Mount Sinai Health System. At Mount Sinai, responsibilities included liaising between business operations and the Epic team, as well as leading special projects like the Health Network's Shared Work Program and COVID employee redeployment plan. Prior to this, as an Implementation Project Manager at Epic, Patrick directed project planning and implementation of electronic health record software, mentoring team members for their career progression. Patrick's early career included serving as a Certified Nursing Assistant. Patrick holds a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Central Michigan University.
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Cactus Healthcare Resources
Cactus is unconventional in its simplicity. We approach talent acquisition and placement services with the mindset of a concierge. Cactus’ business model eliminates unnecessary hand-offs and develops value from utilizing an individual to working directly with customer hiring authorities and the resource talent pool. Modern recruiting technologies allow an individual to proactively identify and recruit talent with pinpoint accuracy. There is no need for traditional staffing firm sales and recruiting teams. Gone are the days of posting an ad and waiting to see what comes in. Cactus combines years of industry experience, proprietary recruiting methodology and modern recruiting technology to deliver the right people at the right time. In addition to the toolset and the approach, we differentiate ourselves by putting the right people at the helm. At Cactus, we know that talent acquisition is easier to teach than technical talents. The principal agents liaising between customers and resources are experienced Epic professionals, not salespeople and recruiters. The traditional model of having salespeople (account reps), sales experts (service line leaders), and recruiting as disparate and disjointed business functions drives up cost, diminishes quality and responsiveness, while effectively eliminating the connection between customer and resource. Cactus sidesteps these pitfalls and reaps the benefits of improved efficiency and quality through utilizing technical recruiters who do this work themselves and can screen for technical excellence. Their searches have more reach and higher response rates; their requirements are more relevant; and their ability to screen and prepare candidates allow them to operate as a true extension of a customer’s team. The benefits of utilizing these cross-trained service representatives extend to both temporary contract opportunities and direct placements alike.