Joint Commission Launches Center for Transforming Healthcare

Press Kit Index

• Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Takes Aim at Patient Safety Failures
• Multi-Media Release:  Includes video clips, photographs and podcast
• Center for Transforming Healthcare Conference Call Transcript 

Press Conference Participants

• Mark R. Chassin, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission
• Victoria Nahum, co-founder and executive director, Safe Care Campaign
• Thomas M. Priselac, CEO, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Ronald R. Peterson, president, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
• Donny C. Lambeth, M.B.A., president and COO, North Carolina Baptist Hospital 

Additional Biographies - Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare

• Anne Marie Benedicto, executive vice president, Support Operations and Chief of Staff, The Joint Commission

CEO Statements - Collaborating Hospitals and Health Systems

• Thomas M. Priselac, CEO, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• William D. Petasnick, CEO, Froedtert Hospital
• Ronald R. Peterson, president, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
• G. Steven "Steve" Sanders, CEO, Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital
• Joseph Swedish, president and CEO, Trinity Health
• Richard P. Miller, president and CEO, Virtua

Center Sponsors

• American Hospital Association
• BD
• Ecolab
• The Federation of American Hospitals
• GE Healthcare
• Hospira
• Johnson & Johnson

Additional Resources

• About the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare
• About The Joint Commission
• Speak Up:  Five Things You Can Do to Prevent Infection

Hand Hygiene Project Collabarators

• Cedars-Sinai Health System
  • Jennifer Blaha
  • Rekha K. Murthy, M.D.
  • Thomas M. Priselac
• Exempla Lutheran Medical Center
  • Ann Evans, RN, M.S., M.B.A.
  • Amber Miller, M.S.N., RN, C.I.C.
• Froedtert Hospital
  • Beth Lanham, B.S.N.,RN, M.B.A.
  • William D. Petasnick, FACHE
  • Patti Wilson, B.S.N., RN, C.I.C.
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Edward D. Miller, M.D.
  • Lisa L. Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Ronald R. Peterson
  • Laura Winner, B.S.N., M.B.A.
• Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
  • Anne-Claire France, Ph.D., C.P.H.Q.
  • Tricia Kingdon, M.S.
  • G. Steven Sanders
  • Dan Wolterman, M.B.A., M.H.A.
• Trinity Health
  • Paul F. Conlon, Pharm.D., J.D.
  • Lakshmi K. Halasymani, M.D.
  • Robert MacDonell
  • Rolland Mambourg, M.D.
  • Joseph R. Swedish
  • Mary Lou Wesley, M.S., B.S.N.
• Virtua
  • James P. Dwyer, D.O., M.B.A.
  • Kathleen S. Gillespie, B.S.N. RN, C.N.E.
  • Richard P. Miller
  • Joann Moon
• Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
  • Werner E. Bischoff, M.D., M.S., Ph.D.
  • Donny C. Lambeth, M.B.A.
  • John D. McConnell, M.D.
  • Robert J. Sherertz, M.D.

Wrong Site Surgery Project Participant

• Lifespan Corporation
  • Mary Reich Cooper, M.D., J.D.
• Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital
  • Timothy Babineau, M.D.

Patient Safety Advocate

• Victoria Nahum, co-founder and executive director, Safe Care Campaign