Stacia Gandee, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, LSSYB, has been a dedicated Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) since 2017. She advanced quickly in her career, stepping into the specialized role of Clinical Validation CDS in 2019 and then into management in 2020. Her journey in clinical documentation is rooted in over a decade of experience as an inpatient coder, which provided her with deep expertise in both coding and documentation.

Stacia is an active member of her organization’s sepsis committee and has attended national conferences to ensure her CDI Program is optimizing impact in patient care, documentation, and coding practices. Stacia brings ambition, knowledge, and coding expertise that is instrumental to organization-wide change in practice as it relates to the integrity of clinical documentation and coding.