Adult Performance Management & Improvement Team has the following Mission, Vision and Objectives.
MISSION
- The mission of Vanderbilt Adult Performance Management and Improvement (APM&I) is to support the highest quality and safety of care for every patient, every time by delivering and sustaining high reliability healthcare.
VISION
- Creating a system where patients and those who care for them are free from harm.
OBJECTIVES
- Collaboration
- To work in conjunction with the VUMC Office of Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention (QSRP) to define and achieve goals related to patient safety and quality.
- To support the advancement of a culture focused on providing the right care, at the right time for the right patient, every time.
- To maintain transparent relationships with our stakeholders from front line staff to executive leadership.
- Promotion and Education
- To promote the fundamental principles of implementation science as when they are applied when assessing and monitoring improvement.
- To foster VUMC knowledge sharing to extend best practice use, reduce variability, and facilitate improvements in outcomes.
- To promote a culture of continuous improvement that leads to sustained results and optimal performance using change management principles.
- Facilitation
- To proactively identify and mitigate opportunities for performance improvement using a standard method for identification, notification, and problem solving.
- To oversee, facilitate, and/or support quality and safety initiatives occurring within the hospitals, clinics, patient care centers (PCCs), and ancillary, diagnostic, therapeutic, and support functions.
- To facilitate organization of work that spans across the PCCs to ensure improvement using appropriate methodologies.
- Resource
- To review patient safety issues and adverse events and work towards resolutions.
- To access and use information resources to demonstrate current practice and identify opportunities for improvement through analyzing and interpreting trends.
- To monitor and improve metrics related to internal and external surveys and regulations.
Adult Performance Management & Improvement Team Members:
- Dr. Neesha Choma, MD, MPH, FACP - Executive Medical Director of Quality & Patient Safety, Adult Enterprise
- Sonya Moore, MSN, RN, CPPS - Senior Director, APM&I
- Laura Culwell, MSN, RN - Manager, APM&I
- Lindsey Netzel, MSN, RN, CCRN - Nursing Quality Manager
- Kate Faught, BS - Program Manager
- Randy Cox, MPH, LSS, CPPS - Sr. Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Adult Emergency: A-Pod, B-Pod
- Medicine PCC: C-Pod, TCU
- Laurie DeSantis, CNM, CPPS - Sr. Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Women's Health PCC: Maternal Special Care, Labor & Delivery, and Mother Baby Obstetrics
- Chris Eastburn, MS, RN - Sr. Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Cancer: 11N Oncology, 10T3 Myelosuppression
- Neuro: 6N/Neuro, 6S Spine, 6T3/Neuro ICU
- Kimberly Gerant, RN, BSN - Sr. Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Medicine: 8T3/MICU, 8MCE, 8N, 7S Obs
- Angela Balding, BSN, RN, CNOR - Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Perioperative Services: HR/PACU, Main OR's, MCE OR's, 4S GYN Surgery, Central Sterile Processing, Rounding in FEL, VBJ, Belle Meade
- Lee Blair, MSN, RN, CEN, EMT-P IC - Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- LifeFlight: LifeFlight Ground, Air Communication
- Katie Scott, BSN, RN, CEN - Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Surgery: 10N, 10S, 7t3, 11S
- Lindsey Jett, CPhT, MALT, CPPS - Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Medicine: 3RW, 4RW, 5RW, 6RW, 7RW
- Brittany Smith, BSN, RN, PCCN - Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- VHVI: 5N/CVICU, 5S, 7MCE, 7N, 8S, Cath Lab/COBS
- Stacie Knight Evans, RN, BSN - Quality & Patient Safety Advisor
- Surgery: 6MCE, SICU, 9N, 9S