Hear what Alliance members had to say at the last Summit
Amplifire
Bob Burgin
Alliance Founder and CEO
Stanford University
Brent James, MD
Clinical Professor at the Clinical Excellence Research Center
Partners Health
Bob Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Director, Continuing Professional Development
Intermountain Health
Tammy Richards, RN, MSN, CPXP,
AVP, Professional Practice and Learning
UCHealth
Rich Zane, MD
Chief Innovation Officer
MedStar Health
Bill Sheahan, MPA, EMT
Corporate Vice President
Childrens’s Hospital Colorado
Dan Hyman, MD, MMM
Chief Medical and Safety Officer
Centura Health
Leslie Russell BS, BSN, MS, MBA
Administrative Director, Clinical Outcomes
US Dept. of Veteran Affairs
Susan Mittenzwei, MPH
Management Data Analyst
Texas Health
Daniel Gandarilla, MBA, M.ED
VP, Chief Learning Officer
Providence Health, Alaska
Rebecca Hamel, MHI, RN, CIC
Infection Preventionist Manager, Epidemiology
Banner Health
Candice Vaughan Griffin,
MS, BSN, RN
Senior Director, Clinical Education
March 2019 Healthcare Alliance Meeting
Listen to the Alliance discuss their initiatives to reduce patient harm in our last meeting.
Recent Papers
Analysis showing the phenomenon of clinical knowledge variation and confidently held misinformation in critical areas of care.
CAUTI
CDC estimates CAUTI rates could be reduced by 70% if best practices and guidelines were followed.
CLABSI
250,000 CLABSIs every year with a mortality rate of 12–25% and a cost of approximately $22,000 each.
Sepsis
More than 1.2 million Americans are afflicted with sepsis every year and it is the most expensive cause of hospitalization.
Pressure Injuries
2.5 million patients are affected each year at a cost of up to $140,000 each and a total cost to the economy of $12 billion.
7 Ways to Build a High Performing Clinical Workforce
Including a case study showing how Intermountain reduced CLABSI infection rates by 51%.
Recently in the Press
The Amplifire Health Alliance is transforming the way that healthcare leaders tackle the problem of patient harm.