Peter Hjelmstad
President and Executive Director at Senior Helpers Littleton- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Level IV Coach
USA HockeyOct, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Intermediate Level Education - Common Core
US Army Command and General Staff CollegeFeb, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Captains Career Course
Army Medical DepartmentJun, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Army Medical Human Resources Officer Course
US Army Medical DepartmentMar, 2010- Nov, 2024 -
Army Medical Operations Officer Course
US Army Medical DepartmentSep, 2007- Nov, 2024 -
Secret Security Clearance
US GovernmentJan, 2004- Nov, 2024 -
Apache Attack Helicopter Repairer (Crewchief)
United States Army Aviation SchoolJan, 2003- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Senior Helpers Littleton
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United States
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Individual and Family Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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President and Executive Director
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May 2022 - Present
Senior Helpers of Littleton is owned and operated by Peter Hjelmstad, who grew up in Littleton and advocates for high-quality senior care. Located conveniently near C-470 and Broadway across from Littleton Hospital, Senior Helpers of Littleton serves the Highlands Ranch, Centennial, Englewood, and Littleton communities. At Senior Helpers of Littleton, our primary goal is to help provide a high quality of life for our clients and their families, by delivering customized, dependable and affordable care. We are thrilled to offer signature services for Veterans and clients suffering from Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Our team of highly qualified caregivers, staff, and their families live in the South Denver area and we are invested in this community. Show less
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United States Army Reserve
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United States
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Field Hospital Commander
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Jun 2023 - Present
Senior Director of a military hospital element consisting of 24-Bed Augmentation, Forward Surgical Team, Veterinary Detachment, and Headquarters element. This 250+ Soldier unit provides trained and ready professionals as backfill to essential medical missions worldwide.
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Operations Officer, 176th MED BDE
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Jan 2021 - Jun 2023
Deputy Operations Officer in the Brigade Operations Section supporting 9 Derivative Reporting Units comprising the largest Medical Brigade in The Army. Leads planning and operations section OICs to ensure operations are analyzed, planned, and executed effectively and efficiently. Ensures integration of efforts across the functional sections of the operations section including plans, training, medical regulating, aeromedical evacuation, clinical operations, current operations, future operations, and other assigned functional areas. Conducts parallel planning and coordinates with staff at higher and lower level headquarters. Analyzes, plans, drafts, and executes written products at the brigade level. Balances efforts across multiple mission sets and efforts in different theaters for the Brigade including real-world medical support, training exercises, combat deployments, and IRT mission sets.● Served as Officer-In-Charge for night shift of a brigade headquarters performing 24-hour operations during a 2-week intense training exercise. Awarded for service during the mission in which the unit received the highest possible external evaluation.● Led planning and execution of multiple Military/Civilian/Government real-world medical outreach operations in Colonias, TX, resulting in the treatment of thousands of residents most in need of medical, dental, and veterinary care.● Oversaw the development and implementation of Brigade Operational SOPs for use in the tactical environment.● Built and implemented a Brigade Safety Program● Selected and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, Selected and assigned to a Battalion-Level Centralized Selection List Command position. Show less
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Assistant Professor Of Military Science
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Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Supported programs at Metro State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado Christian University, and the University of Colorado in Boulder. Provided classroom and field instruction to ROTC Cadets on a variety of military topics including leadership, ethics, military doctrine, and operations.● Created syllabus and lesson plans and delivered blocks of classroom instruction on military, ethics, and leadership topics.● Observed and mentored platoon during multi-day field training exercises, providing expert leadership and military operations analysis and instruction.● Observed, mentored, and provided instruction to cadets during military operations labs on topics including land navigation, individual and unit movement, small unit tactics, and ruck marching. ● Completed Intermediate Level Education Common Core Course (Masters Level Certificate) Show less
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Executive Officer
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Aug 2016 - Dec 2017
Executive Officer for a Preventive Medicine Detachment, responsible for providing area preventative medicine service in any environment. Managed equipment, personnel, and administrative functions in order to allow successful completion of any mission.● Improved unit recruitment and retention strategies, resulting in 60% personnel growth to reach authorized strength.● Developed physical security plan to ensure compliance with regulations.● Selected for promotion to Major.
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Brigade Plans Officer in Charge
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May 2015 - Aug 2016
Senior planner for a brigade staff planning large-scale missions in a brigade spread across the nation. Used the Military Decision Making Process to integrate a multi-functional staff to create effective and executable military plans.● Served as action officer for multiple brigade-level events including two change of command ceremonies and one retirement. ● Planned and executed Brigade Commander's Conference by coordinating transportation, agenda, speakers, lodging, and all administrative needs for 6 command teams from remote locations to meet with Brigade Command Team and Staff. Show less
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Company Commander
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Jan 2013 - May 2015
Exercised military command authority over 70 Reserve Soldiers consisting of a Brigade Headquarters and Staff. Planned, administered, supervised, and coordinated all required military training. Ensured tactical, medical, and administrative readiness of the unit. Oversaw all administrative functions. ● Developed advanced tracking and projection tools to ensure maximum deployability of complex unit. Maintained 'green' status on readiness metrics, ensuring all Soldiers were ready and able to serve in any mission.● Oversaw doubling of unit strength in support of national growth strategy for Army Reserves. Successfully integrated new Soldiers in excess of 30 with limited resources while ensuring their administrative and training readiness.● Planned, coordinated, and executed three weapons qualification ranges with no safety incidents, resulting in maximum military readiness. Show less
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Colorado Blood Cancer Institute Medical Group
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Administrative Director
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Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Executive level administration/operations support for a 30+ provider medical group. Oversight of all administrative functions including Operations, HR, and Finance. Administers PSA arrangement with partner hospital, leads strategic planning and development, and supervises all operations for the group. -Developed comprehensive COVID response, allowing providers to continue safely caring for high-risk cancer patients. -Established robust new-patient process, reducing days to first appointment time by 50% and enabling a record-setting year for new patient visits during a global pandemic. -Built from scratch a social media presence, gaining over 1000 followers across three major platforms in a year. -Led team through comprehensive review of retirement program and selection of new financial advisor, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars for the plan. -Developed and implemented disease-based committee structure and leadership program, allowing practice to refine and standardize approaches to various diseases treated by providers. Show less
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Centura Health
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, Hospital Medicine
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Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Director of Operations for 10 inpatient programs as well as a multi-site Palliative Care Group. Works with Dyad Partner Medical Director to provide strategic vision and operational implementation to increase Quality, Patient Experience, Fiscal Performance, and Market Share throughout assigned region. Directly responsible for operating budget exceeding $40 million and over 120 total providers.● Improved year over year EBITDA by 11% / $1.4 million.● Developed, proposed, and implemented new physician compensation plan for 90 physicians.● Successfully onboarded a 20-provider program at 2 major hospitals in less than 90 days. Show less
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Administrator, Primary Care
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May 2016 - Apr 2017
Promoted ahead of peers to Administrator for 11 primary care clinics in the North Denver Region supporting Avista Adventist Hospital and St. Anthony North Medical Center, to include a Family Medicine Residency Program. Works with 3 Dyad-Partner Medical Directors to provide strategic vision and operational implementation to increase Quality, Patient Experience, Fiscal Performance, and Market Share throughout assigned region. Directly responsible for operating budget exceeding $22 million and staff including 60 providers and 190 total FTE.● Reorganized leadership structure to drastically improve associate engagement. Ended rapid physician turnover and established proactive leadership development program.● Developed and implemented new faculty compensation plan for residency program. Show less
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Manager, Primary Care
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Nov 2014 - May 2016
Administrative Manager for up to eight primary care clinics in the South Denver Region supporting Littleton Adventist Hospital. Direct P&L responsibility of $9 million for all clinics and manages a diverse staff of over 45 FTE supporting 20 providers. Directly responsible for driving results in areas of patient and employee satisfaction, visit volume, and quality. Manages budget, supply, staffing, training, and strategic/operational planning.● Recognized for developing an innovative approach to patient experience, resulting in improvement from a 39th to 89th national percentile rank in a 12-month period.● Streamlined fiscal performance and budgeting process for clinic group. Transitioned group from chronically missing budget to finishing ahead of budget each month in current FY.● Completed strategic analysis and recommendation to consolidate two clinics into one, resulting in annual EBITDA improvement of greater than $500 thousand. Show less
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VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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200 - 300 Employee
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Administrative Officer - Surgical Service
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Jul 2012 - Nov 2014
Supervisory Administrative Manager for Surgical Service consisting of over 150 employees. Areas of responsibility included contracts/Federal Acquisition Regulation, budget, human resources, hiring/firing, payroll, employee/labor relations, administrative methods, procedures, clinic utilization, workload capture, clinical coding and billing, patient relations, external correspondence, work flow, personnel utilization, organization, communication, planning, training, arrangements of space, patient-centered care, LEAN leadership, and equipment utilization. Provided the problem solving and administrative leadership for the service. -Successfully managed 13 clinical service contracts as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) totaling over $8 million annually. -Led initiative to eliminate backlog of clinical consults exceeding 10,000; many of which were more than 12 months old. Developed extensive review process to ensure all patients had been served or expediting service to greatly reduce backlog. Total reduction upon completion of backlog exceeded 95%. -After failure of VA National Surgery Office (NSO) site visit; led working group to review deficiency report and ensured that all deficiencies were corrected and new protocols implemented to prevent future failures. -Led successful search committee to replace Chief of Surgery; ensured successful operation of department during 9-month gap between Chiefs. Show less
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US Army
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United States
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Medical Rehabilitation Unit Commander
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Mar 2011 - May 2012
Remote Care Company CommanderWarrior Transition Unit, 3-85th Infantry BattalionResponsible for 100 Soldiers in rehabilitation status in the New England Region. Supervised a cadre of 20 military and civilian personnel, including medical staff. Responsible for injured and ill Soldiers' treatment, rehabilitation, and transition back to society. Soldiers are spread across a large geographic region, requiring creative methods of supervision and coordination.-Due to immediate success, this company was selected to absorb another larger company, tripling the number of direct reports and wounded soldiers- Selected above peers for this position based upon superior performance as HR Chief.- Established this new company from scratch with little guidance and few resources provided. Show less
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Medical Rehabilitation Unit HR Chief
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Apr 2010 - Mar 2011
Warrior Transition Unit, 3-85th Infantry BattalionSupervised a Human Resources Team of 16 personnel, providing administrative processing services for a medical rehabilitation unit. Responsible for all human resources functions including finance, awards, evaluations, legal actions, reporting, postal, and patient movement coordination. Served as the principle advisor to the Battalion Commander for strength management, staffing, and military protocol. Developed, processed, and presented all personnel reports to the Battalion Commander and higher headquarters.• Developed and established a new distribution system which minimizes employee travel and increases the percentage of customer service time available for the section.• Formalized an information reporting system for reports from subordinate headquarters, eliminating redundant reporting and streamlining information processing.• Established a mentorship and training program for an under-qualified financial support staff, increasing their ability to provide quality customer service. Show less
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Clinic Manager / Medical Operations and Planning Officer
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May 2007 - Apr 2010
Medical Platoon Leader2-87th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain DivisionDeployed to Wardak Province, Afghanistan (January 2009 – January 2010)The primary advisor to the Battalion Commander for all medical functions to include medical treatment and evacuation, medical readiness, patient tracking, tactical medical planning, medical asset distribution, and supply chain operations in support of over 1,000 soldiers. Supervised a Medical Platoon consisting of 3 Doctors, 1 Physician’s Assistant, and 39 Combat Medics responsible for providing the entire spectrum of medical support to a geographically separated infantry battalion.• Coordinated with international partners representing Hungary, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, and the World Health Organization to improve the medical infrastructure of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. • Coordinated and executed over 300 tactical medical evacuations for US and Afghan National Army soldiers wounded in action.• Developed a patient tracking system which provided real-time tracking of over 100 wounded soldiers spread over 19 locations in a medical system spanning three continents.• Awarded the Bronze Star Medal for service. Show less
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US Army
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United States
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Apache Helicopter Repairer
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Jun 2002 - Jun 2003
3-229th Aviation Regiment (Attack), 82nd Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division Deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan (March 2003 – May 2003) Served as a scheduled maintenance aviation technician in a forward deployed attack helicopter battalion. Responsible for conducting scheduled inspections and performing on-the-spot corrections to ensure maximum readiness ratings. • Basic Training Soldier of the Cycle. • Advanced Training Soldier of the Quarter and academic Honor Graduate. • Awarded the Army Achievement Medal for service. Show less
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Jungle Quest, LTD
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Denver, CO
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Day Camp Coordinator
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Feb 2000 - May 2002
Served as Adventure Counselor and Summer Day Camp Counselor / Assistant Coordinator for a children's adventure/challenge facility. Supervised up to 65 elementary-aged children at 1 time learning and playing in a 2,000sq. ft. facility containing a climbing wall, rope bridges, ziplines, and other adventure activities. Instructed children on rock climbing safety, equipment, and techniques. Traveled with company's mobile rock climbing wall and represented the business at large public and private events. Planned, coordinated, and supervised daytime field trips for summer day camp program. Assisted in the creation of work schedule for employees. Show less
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Education
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2003 - 2007
United States Military Academy at West Point
BS, Management with Civil Engineering Concentration -
2012 - 2014
University of Denver - Daniels College of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Public Policy -
2020 - 2021
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Advanced Operations Course, Military Operational Art and Science/Studies -
2017 - 2019
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Intermediate Level Education Common Core, Military Operational Art and Science/Studies -
Arapahoe High School
Diploma
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