With 16 years of progressive experience in nursing and the last six in nursing management. Mr. Schademan oversees several services at MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center. These include emergency and critical care, social services, palliative care, critical care nurse practitioner program and an outpatient wound healing center. He is also responsible for the Neuroscience Institute, which includes the stroke program, brain and spine health initiatives, and electroencephalogram services. These roles allow him to integrate his clinical expertise and administrative leadership to support patient care and daily operations. His achievements include implementing a new care model for Saddleback’s busy emergency department, adding licensed vocational nurses to supplement registered nurses, allowing RNs to work at the top of their licensure and skill set. This results in emergency department patients having shorter arrival-to-provider times and patient satisfaction improvements. Stroke program initiatives over the past year have improved the time from patient door-to-thrombolytic treatment, consistently outperforming national benchmarks for acute ischemic stroke care. The majority of Saddleback’s stroke patients receive thrombolytics in less than 30 minutes. These efforts have earned Saddleback “Get With the Guidelines – Gold Plus Award” from the American Stroke Association/American Heart Association for excellence in stroke care.
