Patient Safety & Outcomes

Officials evacuated more than two dozen patients from Frisco, Texas-based Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Centennial Wednesday after a water pipe burst, flooding the facility, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Ronald Wyatt, MD. Patient Safety Officer of The Joint Commission. As the first-ever patient safety officer of The Joint Commission, Dr. Wyatt promotes quality improvement and patient safety initiatives in health systems and works to expand the influence of the…

Robert M. Wachter, MD. Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Wachter has published more than 200 articles and six books on the topics of healthcare quality, safety and health policy.…

Joan Silver. Vice President of Organizational Quality and Performance Improvement at PinnacleHealth (Harrisburg, Pa.). Ms. Silver has been with PinnacleHealth since 1984. In her current role she is in charge of developing strategic direction, philosophy, planning and programming for organizational…

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD. Director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. Dr. Pronovost also serves as senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine in addition to his role at the Armstrong…

Barbara Pelletreau. Senior Vice President of Patient Safety at Dignity Health (San Francisco). Ms. Pelletreau has been with Dignity Health for more than 14 years and in her current role is responsible for implementing consistent, evidence-based practices in high-risk clinical…

Margaret E. O’Kane. President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Ms. O’Kane founded the National Committee for Quality Assurance in 1990 and currently serves as the organization’s president. She sits on the National Governor’s Association’s State Health Policy advisory…

Patty Murray. Senior U.S. Senator from Washington. First elected in 1992, Ms. Murray, a Democrat, became the first female Senator from Washington. She has placed significant focus on healthcare-associated initiatives in her time as a legislator. The senator has backed…

Brigitta Mueller, MD. Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Patient Safety Officer of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (St. Petersburg, Fla.). Dr. Mueller assumed her role at All Children’s Hospital in 2013 and became a member of the core…

Elizabeth A. Mort, MD. Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety and Chief Quality Officer of Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Prior to joining Massachusetts General, Dr. Mort served on the American Hospital Association’s panel on healthcare-acquired conditions, was a member…