Dr. Sexton has primary responsibility for clinical care at UM St. Joseph Medical Center, including oversight of quality, patient safety, regulatory readiness, peer review, infection prevention and performance improvement. She serves as a key partner to the hospital president, administrative liaison to the board quality committee, and executive leader for Joint Commission readiness. She also acts as liaison between the medical staff and hospital departments on policies, bylaws and rules. Since joining in spring 2025, she has spearheaded interdisciplinary bedside rounding, with the pilot unit improving scores for physician-nurse rounding compliance from 48% to 78% over six months. She has integrated infection prevention, quality and physician representation into nursing unit quality councils to strengthen multidisciplinary collaboration and expanded medical staff education by restarting morbidity and mortality conferences and developing clinical decision support for winter respiratory surges. She partnered with analytics to build new dashboards and reports for executives and physicians, improving data visibility and shared understanding. She is restructuring the root cause analysis process to elevate frontline input, with recent analyses producing new guidelines for life-threatening skin and soft tissue infections, a multispecialty consult team for diagnostic mysteries and a mortality review committee. She is also expanding the hospital’s academic mission with a plan to add medical student rotations in five additional specialties next academic year. She serves as a clinical professor of infectious diseases at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
