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
  • Rick Morrow, director, Business Excellence, Master Black Belt, The Joint Commission
• CEO Statements - Participating 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
  • Donny C. Lambeth, president and COO, North Carolina Baptist 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 Participants
  • 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.
    • David Munch, M.D.
  • 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.
    • Melody F. Dickerson, RN, M.S.N., C.C.R.N.
    • 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