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Rhonda Anderson, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACHEP
Rhonda is Pediatric Administrator at Banner Children's Hospital at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona and a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Grand Canyon University, College of Nursing. She has extensive and progressive experience in staff nursing, education, hospital and healthcare organization management roles, financial management, performance measurement and patient safety. She is certified as a Nursing Administrator Advanced, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Rhonda has written, published, and lectured on professional nursing practice models, financial management, clinical ladders, patient classification systems, managed care structure and philosophy, patient centered care models, health care reform, quality management, patient safety, community health initiatives, and value based purchasing. She serves on 5 editorial boards of nursing. She is a JC Commissioner (7 years) and on the JCAHO Board, Data Use Oversight Committee, Nursing Advisory Council, chair of the Ernest A. Codman Awards Evaluation Committee, and chair of the Performance Measurement Committee (7 years). She has served as a member of the American Hospital Association Quality Task Force and their Patient Safety Quality Awards Committee. She is Chair of Joint Commission International Accreditation Committee and on the JCR Board and Global Tourism Committee.
Kathy Douglas, RN, MHA
Kathy's leadership in the combined areas of healthcare and technology spans over 25 years. She has been a founder and on the executive team of multiple start-up companies bringing new and innovative solutions to the healthcare industry. Kathy was part of the team that brought to market the first graphical user interface frontend to the computerized patient record, did extensive work on the design of structured data capture for clinical documentation and was an early advocate for standardized terminology to support clinical research.
Kathy is Founder and President of the not-for-profit Institute for Staffing Excellence and Innovation and it's parent On Nursing Excellence. She is CNO for API Healthcare, the largest healthcare specific vendor of workforce management solutions in the healthcare industry and President and CEO of The Sedona Group, providing strategic and operational healthcare consulting. Previously Ms. Douglas was a CNO of Concerro, Inc. provider of staffing solutions for healthcare, CEO of Montclaire Technologies, a web services and marketing company and Executive Vice President of Oceania, one of the early pioneering EMR companies. For the past 10 years Kathy has devoted her time to understanding and designing solutions for optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare workforce. She is a frequent speaker on topics related to staffing, author of many published articles and has a column on staffing in Nursing Economics as well as sitting on their Editorial Board. Kathy was the organizer of a 2008 event that defined Excellence in Staffing, the supporting best practices and an evidence-based model for staffing and author of the booklet Excellence and Evidence in Staffing; Essential Links to Staffing Strategies, Design and Solutions for Healthcare.
Kathy is a Registered Nurse and has taught ICU Nursing as a volunteer in India. She holds a Masters Degree in Health Administration from the University of San Francisco and is a graduate of Stanford Business Schools Executive Program.
Karlene Kerfoot, PhD, RN, CNAA, FAAN
Dr. Karlene Kerfoot has held a variety of positions in nursing and patient care administration, clinical practice, academic positions in nursing and MHA and MBA programs and healthcare consulting. Since September 24, 2007, she serves in the position of Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for the Aurora Health Care System in Wisconsin. In this position, Dr. Kerfoot has responsibility for clinical areas and quality programs throughout the 14 hospital system. She has served as the Chief Nursing and Patient Care officer in two other systems; Clarian Health Partners in Indianapolis, IN and the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, TX. Previous to these positions, she served as the Executive Vice President, CNO Chief Quality Officer for St Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, and as the Senior Associate Director of Nursing at the University of Iowa.
Karlene is widely acknowledged for her innovative work implementing the American Association of Critical Care Synergy model in practice, developing the "Safe Passage" model for patient safety, creating healing environments and healing sanctuaries for staff, strategic planning, Shared Governance, achieving excellence in quality outcomes and achieving Magnet designation as a system. She has been active with numerous civic organizations such as those who work in areas of homeless and domestic abuse. Professionally she has served in many capacities with professional organizations. She most recently served with the Academy on the Board of Directors and worked with Joanne Disch to co-chair the 2006 program and to co-found the "Raise the Voice" campaign and the Edge Runner recognition program.
Dr. Kerfoot has earned a doctorate in nursing from the University of Illinois, Chicago and Masters and BSN from the University of Iowa in Iowa City and completed many advanced educational programs such as the Johnson and Johnson Wharton program for Nurse Executives at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published over 300 articles in the areas of leadership, patient safety, and work force issues, writes a popular column for Nursing Economics and speaks nationally and internationally. Among her many honors is induction into the Academy of Nursing, the Mary Tolle Wright Award for Excellence in Leadership from the Sigma Theta Tau International and the Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical Care Nursing. Her passion is to improve the care of patients by improving the quality of work life for clinicians on the front line, and her mission has been to develop and implement programs that will accomplish that. She has therefore worked extensively in the area of retention, Magnet Recognition and staff and leader development to create innovations that will enable the people in the front line positions to become the clinicians they always wanted to be.
Ann VanSlyck, MSN, RN, CNAA, FAAN
A nationally recognized nurse leader and recipient of AONE's Life Time Distinguished Service Award, Ann is an entrepreneur who over 25 years ago, after achieving the CNO level in the hospital setting, ventured to start her own successful company providing tools and technology to address the need of measuring and communicating patient acuity / classification. Ann was the first nurse in Arizona to receive the Arizona Hospital Association Salsbury award for Outstanding Contributions to Healthcare in 1985 and was the founding board member of the Healthcare Coalition, Arizonans to Protect Qualtiy Health Services. She was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Arizona State University College of Nursing Alumni and Arizona the Arizona State University Distinguished Achievement award. She has served on the Board of Directors of the tertiary teaching healthcare system in Phoenix.
Ann was recognized for her significant contributions to the science and practice of nursing when she was elected to fellowship in the Academy of Nursing. In 1996 she was appointed to the American College of Healthcare Executives and in 1997 to ACHEs Regent's Advisory Council in Arizona. Ann is a member of AONE, ANA, STTI and holds an Advanced ANA Certification in Nursing Administration. She had published extensively in hospital and nursing journals on Patient Acuity/Classification, Staffing, Productivity, Costing and Pricing for Nursing Services.
Carol Ann Cavouras, RN, MS, CNAA
Carol Ann is a National and International expert on workforce development, workload assessment and measurement, plus effective staffing and scheduling in the healthcare field. Skilled in implantation of sustainable, cost effective strategies that enhance a healthy work environment which produces positive outcomes, She is a sought after speaker, educator and consultant. She has a distinguished career of over forty-five years in leadership positions in a variety of settings from large academic medical centers to small community organizations.
Her background and expertise includes visionary planning, implementing new, successful programs and services, transitioning organizations through structural redesign. She is committed to creating environments of empowerment, and developing innovative, practical, sustainable, strategies that balance the workforce and workplace. In the last ten years she has provided workforce consultation in over 80 teaching, community, and rural hospitals. Carol Ann received her Masters of Science Degree from the University of Minnesota. She was selected as one of the first J&J Wharton Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Suellyn Ellerbe, RN, MN, NEA-BC
Suellyn is the Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer for Saint Clares Health System, Denville, New Jersey. In this position she is responsible for all hospital operations departments including nursing and all patient care services, behavioral health and substance abuse services, emergency services including EMS, perioperative services, dietary, pharmacy, imaging, lab, cardiology services, regulatory compliance and quality. She is responsible for all outpatient clinical services including wound care and hyperbaric medicine, and the outpatient therapies.
Suellyn holds a Bachelor's in Nursing and Master's in Nursing from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a nationally known health care author, researcher, and speaker. She has held faculty positions at the Universities of Wisconsin, Washington, California at San Francisco and Iowa. She is currently Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University, School of Nursing in the graduate program for Nursing Administration. She is Board Certified in Nursing Administration, Advanced. Ms. Ellerbe has more than 25 years of experience with 20 years in Administration, most of which have been at the executive level. Having lived and worked throughout the United States, Ms. Ellerbe brings a broad perspective of differing approaches to healthcare seen in various markets.
Areas of expertise include Hospital and Healthcare Operations and Process Improvement, Patient Care Redesign/Re-organization, Team Building, Financial Management, Computer Installations and Clinical Applications, Labor Relations, Strategic Planning and Physician Relations. Has succeeded in upgrading and redesigning complex organizations in times of rapid growth and change.
Karen K. Kirby, RN, MSN
Karen has over twenty-five years of diverse healthcare administration and consulting experience. She has held top-level nursing and hospital administration positions, and serves as an Associate at the Institute for Nursing Healthcare Leadership within Boston's Harvard healthcare community. Karen assumed the Chief Executive role at Kirby/Bates in 2003. She wanted to combine her experience and expertise in nursing and hospital administration with her experience in healthcare consulting to shape exceptional nursing leadership teams and ultimately improve patient care.
Karen was previously the Senior Vice President for Patient Services at Boston University Medical Center, and Associate Director of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1990, she entered the international healthcare arena as the Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at Healthcare International, LTD, an international tertiary care hospital and hotel complex near Glasgow, Scotland that she helped to design, equip, staff, commission and then manage. She began her consulting career in 1995 as a Senior Consultant, and then a Director, at Harvard Medical International, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, where she provided consulting services in India, Abu Dhabi, Spain and various other international locations.
Karen has published papers on topics important to nursing administrators, including variable budgeting, operating room productivity and alternative patient care systems. She is particularly skilled in organizational evaluation and re-design, program planning, variable budgeting and staffing, and facility design. She quickly evaluates an organization and/or department and develops cost-effective recommendations for improving structure, roles and outcomes.
Karen has a strong professional network that she taps into for executive search and interim management assignments. She has been a member of the American Organization of Nursing Executives (AONE) for over 20 years, is a Past President of the Massachusetts Organization of Nursing Executives (MONE), and a current member of the Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders (PONL) and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). She received her Bachelors Degree in Nursing from the University of Michigan, her Masters Degree in Administration from the University of California, San Francisco, and she completed a Johnson and Johnson Nursing Executive Fellowship at the Wharton School in Philadelphia.
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Dorothea Brande
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