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Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager
Michigan Medicine
Northville, MI
Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K, FAAN, is the Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager for the Adult Hospitals at University of Michigan Health. In this role she is responsible for development, measurement and sustainability of the Adult Hospitals segment quality and patient safety program.
Pat Posa was previously a Quality Excellence Leader for St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Southeastern Michigan leading initiatives to reduce hospital acquired conditions, improve patient outcomes for critically ill patients and reduce readmissions. She also worked as the Population Health Clinical Integration Leader. In this role she has implemented a risk prediction tool and associated interventions within the hospital and post-acute settings.
She has held various roles in healthcare in the hospital, ambulatory setting and health plan over her 42 years in practice including manager of inpatient critical care units, Director of Nursing and administrator of an outpatient multispecialty/primary care clinic.
Pat has been involved in many quality and patient safety programs such as, hospital and system wide sepsis management program and a statewide Keystone ICU patient safety initiative in Michigan. She has been faculty for multiple state and national clinical collaboratives including the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Phase IV Collaborative, the national project on Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) for Mechanically Ventilated Patients and Society of Critical Care Medicine’s ICU Liberation Collaborative. Pat has been a member and co-chair of SCCM’s ICU Liberation Committee.
Pat has published many articles in both clinical and quality journals. She lectures and consults extensively nationally on sepsis, various critical care, patient safety and quality topics.
Friday, January 20, 2023
1:10 PM – 1:50 PM PT
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
Friday, January 20, 2023
1:50 PM – 2:10 PM PT
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM PT
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
11:05 AM – 11:20 AM PT
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.