Ms. Stockmeier serves as senior vice president of safety and reliability at Press Ganey, where she leads strategic initiatives and solutions integration to optimize safety and performance excellence. She is a member of the executive steering committee of the Press Ganey PSO, the largest patient safety organization in the country with more than 12,000 members across 3,500 healthcare facilities. She also co-leads the “Zero Harm 24/7: collaborative that convenes healthcare leaders committed to eliminating preventable harm. She helped shape the initiative, aligning its 10 critical commitments with CMS’ patient safety structural measure and mobilizing healthcare boards and CEOs around a governance priority rather than an aspirational goal. Ms. Stockmeier is a co-editor and contributing author of Zero Harm: How to Achieve Patient and Workforce Safety in Healthcare, a widely used resource for safety leaders, and has published work in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety and Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Her perspective is informed by her experience as a cancer survivor, giving her direct understanding of the stakes of patient safety from the patient’s point of view. Earlier in her career, as director of safety and performance excellence at Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare, she provided operational leadership for patient safety initiatives that earned the organization the American Hospital Association 2004 “Quest for Quality Prize” and the 2005 “John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality.”
