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Donna joined the company in March 2007. She has more than 30 years experience in healthcare, the last 15 in leadership roles guiding performance improvement, Joint Commission preparation, resource management and patient safety. She was recruited to Florida in 1997 to set up a patient safety program after a highly publicized incident. She contributed to the book, First Do No Harm, in 1998 and published the results of her efforts in reducing medical mistakes in RN Magazine, August 2000. She was instrumental in winning the HITS Award for her organization (Healthcare Innovations in Technology Systems) in May of 2000. She recently published in the Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare journal in April 2005. Donna has spoken to numerous audiences on patient safety since 1998 including five HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conferences, MedInfo, the NPSF (National Patient Safety Foundation) Congress and AHIP. She is affiliate faculty at University of South Florida and has taught at the University of Phoenix. Donna was selected in 2006 by the American Nurses Association to serve on the International Council of Nurses Bank of Nurse Experts in Patient Safety. She is a nationally Certified Professional in HealthCare Quality and is a Licensed Health Care Risk Manager in Florida. She holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Sarasota and a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Florida State University. | 