Excellence In Healthcare Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Rekha Voruganti currently serves as the Sr. Quality Improvement Services Coordinator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio born, she and her son are born and bred buckeyes! By training, Rekha holds a Bachelor of Science in Evolution and Human Ecology, and Masters of Business Operational Excellence, both from THE Ohio State University. She is also a certifi...

Send us Fan Mail Raghivi is a passionate Healthcare Quality and patient safety professional with work experience of around 14 years, out of which 8 years in hospital quality and patient safety. Raghivi believes deeply in leadership values, and produced appreciable results with help of systematic planning and teamwork aligning with key strategies across her organization. By training, Raghavi has ea...

Send us Fan Mail Stacy Melvin brings nearly 20 years of leadership experience to the podcast, having served in both operations and corporate executive roles at the largest academic, non-profit, health system in the Gulf South. Stacy has built high-performance teams and led complex organizational change and holds her MBA, PMP, Lean Green Belt, and AIM change management certification. Stacy is curre...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Eric S. Weaver is nationally recognized for his work in primary care transformation and value-based care.  He is the Executive Director of the Accountable Care Learning Collaborative, a nonprofit organization established by former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and former CMS Administrator Dr. Mark McClellan to accelerate the value-based care readiness of healthcare organizations....

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Chris Recinos is the CEO and founder of Nurse Leader Network, and Tikidas an educational platform for nurses. She is also the creator of the mental health app for teens, Hello, Harmony. Her former roles include Chief Nurse Executive for Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center, Deputy Nurse Executive for the Veterans Administration, and a variety of academic, nurse practitio...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Lori Armstrong, DNP, RN NEA-BC, the CEO and Chief Clinical Officer at Inspire Nurse Leaders, specializes in educating and growing nurse and healthcare leaders to become their best enabling them to achieve great outcomes for themselves, their patients, and teams. For over 25 years, Dr. Armstrong has held executive level and senior leadership roles at top hospitals including Kai...

Send us Fan Mail Bonnie (Baruch) Barnes, FAAN Co-founder, CEO at The DAISY FoundationBonnie Barnes was retired from a long career in advertising and marketing and was growing wine grapes in Sonoma Valley when her step-son Patrick died. You’ll soon hear her story of how she and her husband Mark turned their attention to the profession of nursing and created The DAISY Foundation. Stuart Downs, DNP,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Charlene Hope is the Chief Pharmacy Quality and Medication Safety Officer at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Hope is formally trained in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, achieving a Master’s degree from Northwestern University, and is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety. Over the course of her career, she has focused on developing effective implementation...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Shernette Kydd is a certified Lean Sensei, Six Sigma Black belt, and Lean Six Sigma Master Black belt with over 20 years of experience in operational excellence, which started with Green Belt and Black belt certification at General Electric. Currently she serves as the Assistant Vice President of System Effectiveness at Cook Children's Healthcare System (CCHCS) in Fort Wo...

Send us Fan Mail Henry joined the ARMY after graduating from college and was fortunate to be assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. This is when he decided to grow as a Hospital Executive. His military experience took him also to Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, and Dwight Eisenhower Medical Center in Augusta, GA.He completed his Master’s degree in health servi...

Send us Fan Mail Paul is the Network Senior Vice President of Strategic Development for Kettering Health Network, a Truven 15 Top Health System comprised of nine hospitals, 12 emergency centers, and more than 120 outpatient locations serving southwest Ohio. In this role, Paul drives growth, development, and alignment of the network’s strategy deployment, while building strong relationships with ph...

Send us Fan Mail Leigh is a healthcare executive based in Atlanta, GA. Throughout her almost twenty-year career, she has served as Vice President of Quality, Director of Patient Safety, Accreditation & Risk Management, and Director of Oncology Services/Women’s Imaging in the hospital setting. Leigh has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and spent many years working with adolescents and their fam...

Send us Fan Mail Quality people, I can't believe that we've crossed the century mark with this show. Just taking a few minutes to share some reflections and updates as we start looking towards 200 episodes and beyond. Thank you all for the continued show of support! - Jarvis• Send the show to a colleague: https://anchor.fm/healthcarequalitycast• Connect with Jarvis via LinkedIn: https://...

Send us Fan Mail Ananya is the CEO & Principal Consultant of Impact Clinical Strategy Consultants which helps Emergency medicine and Urgent Care Centers to improve operations and efficiency. She brings over 10 years of nursing experience to the table. As a nurse practitioner working in the Emergency Department, she loved troubleshooting and solving operational inefficiencies such as throughput...

Send us Fan Mail Jared is a Co-Founder at Augment Health, a medical device startup focused on bringing patient dignity to the forefront of healthcare. He's currently studying biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and has experience in sales, software development, and healthcare robotics. Outside of work, he enjoys soccer, ballroom dance, and fountain pens! Here in Episode #99, Jared starts o...

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Mensah is an Improvement Specialist with the Wolff Center at UPMC in Pittsburgh, PA. He is passionate about using his expertise and experience to positively impact patient care. Chris holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He also is certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt, Project Management Professional, and Certified Professio...

Send us Fan Mail After years of trying to lead individuals through change by telling people what to do, how to do it, and why to do it, Tom received feedback that shook his world. He realized he was doing it all wrong. Although the teams he led were getting results, one thing was obvious, they weren't having fun and there was no passion. By committing to starting with why and helping people t...

Send us Fan Mail Kat Roberts, BSN, RN is a thought leader who founded the Integrative Health Department at Wellstar Health System, the first of its kind in the state of Georgia. To lead this movement, Kat completed the Integrative Health Leadership program at Duke University. That, along with her combined experiences as a level one trauma nurse, Reiki practitioner, rural clinic nurse in Zambia, Af...

Send us Fan Mail Marisa is the Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer for AdventHealth. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of supply chain within the system, including contracting, field operations, data and analytics, value analysis, affiliates program, corporate pharmacy and RxPlus, and corporate construction management. Farabaugh recently joined AdventHealth and star...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea Lowe is AAPA’s Director of Employer Strategy and has recently taken on the role to lead AAPA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. She graduated from Pace University – Lenox Hill Physician Assistant program in 2001 and obtained her MHA in 2007. Andrea also has a graduate certificate in Health Care Quality from George Washington University and will be completing her...

Send us Fan Mail Katie is an internationally recognized leadership coach, consultant, and professional speaker, best known for inspiring individuals and organizations to lead with intention. Katie is passionate about helping people around the world learn to lead and lead to learn by connecting purpose, process, and practice to achieve higher levels of performance. She has deep expertise and experi...

Send us Fan Mail Mike is the Director of Public Safety at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital in Athens, Georgia. In Mike’s over 18 years of experience, he has been a pioneer in proactive security solutions including leading the development of a collaborative workplace violence prevention program that has reduced incidents of workplace violence by over 50% at his facility. Prior to healthcare, Mike...

Send us Fan Mail • Registration Link: https://theqiacademy.mykajabi.com/pl/232900• Connect with Ananya Datta (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/ananyadattaedconsultant/• Connection with Cherese Pate (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherese-pate-rn-bsn-emergency-department-improvement-specialist-73b962129/  Is your healthcare organization ready to excel with Lean Six Sigma? Take our qui...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew draws on close to 20 years of experience in healthcare with roles ranging from direct practice clinician to Director of Quality Management. He is currently a process improvement consultant with UnitedHealthcare’s corporate quality team and an adjunct instructor within United’s Operational Excellence program. Andrew is a member of the faculty at Thomas Jefferson University’s...

Send us Fan Mail Jonathan Mclean is an accomplished Healthcare Employee Retention Consultant and a serial entrepreneur. Jonathan has worked in Healthcare Recruitment for 5+ years and has billed over three million dollars in net sales. Jonathan has an extensive background in partnering with healthcare teams, developing organizations, and hiring talent. He is experienced with sales and retention and...