Stacia Gandee, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, LSSYB, began serving as a clinical documentation specialist (CDS) in February 2017 at John Peter Smith (JPS) hospital. She was quickly promoted to the specialized role of Clinical Validation CDS in 2019, and then again to the manager role in 2020. Prior to this, Ms. Gandee worked as a coder at Baylor Scott & White as well as a contract coder for HIMagine. 

Ms. Gandee is a member of her organization’s sepsis committee and has attended national conferences to ensure her CDI Program is optimizing its impact on patient care, documentation, and coding of sepsis. Ms. Gandee 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.