2012 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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Quality Assessment and Measurement in Small and Rural Hospitals
Track:
Small & Rural Hospital Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 322-L04
Date: Sunday, December 2, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM EST
Location:
Reef D, Level 2, South Convention Center
PRESENTER(S):
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Debra Cowan,
PharmD, Director of Pharmacy,
Angel Medical Center
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Debra Cowan, B.S. Pharm., Pharm.D, FASHP is Director of Pharmacy at Angel Medical Center, a critical access hospital. She has been a small and rural hospital pharmacist for 33 years with 25 of those years spent also as director. She was the first pharmacist to work at her current hospital. There she expanded pharmacy services to extensive clinical activities, pharmacy student preceptorship, and technologically-enhanced med safety procedures. Being a small hospital director, her job duties are multiple and varied ranging from staffing to providing community emergency preparedness.
She graduated from the University of New Mexico (B.S. Pharm) and the University of Colorado (NTPharmD). Currently she is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Cowan is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). She has served on several ASHP committees including the Small and Rural Hospital Advisory group, Telepharmacy Task Force, and the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Executive Committee as chair. She has served as moderator and/or speaker as well as led small and rural hospital networking sessions at recent ASHP midyear meetings.
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Jeannell Mansur,
BS Pharm, PharmD, Practice Leader, Medication Safety,
Joint Commission Resources
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Dr. Mansur has extensive experience in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice, including clinical, operational and management. She was Director of Pharmaceutical Services for 12 years at the University of Chicago Medical Center before she became Executive Director for Pharmacy Informatics, where she was involved in the planning, building and implementation of Epic, the organizations electronic medical record.
Dr Mansur received her B.S. Pharmacy from the University of Michigan and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Wayne State University
As Practice Leader for Medication Safety with Joint Commission Resources (JCR), Dr. Mansur provides leadership to clients and the Joint Commission enterprise on medication system design and enhancement, technology implementation, medication safety design and sustainability within the medication processes. She also assists clients by assessing and advising on Joint Commission standards compliance for the hospital and home care programs. Dr. Mansur has published and presented extensively in the areas of medication safety and pharmacy operations improvement. She has authored the chapter on medication safety in Pediatric Safety in the Emergency Department, a textbook published jointly by Joint Commission Resources and the American Academy of Pediatrics. As a member of the Joint Commissions internal committee to rewrite the Medication Reconciliation National Patient Safety Goal, she was engaged in this task resulting in the release of the new Goal to the field. Dr. Mansur has consulted throughout the US and internationally in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East.
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Brock Slabach,
MPH, FACHE, Senior Vice-President for Member Services,
National Rural Health Association
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Brock Slabach currently serves as the Senior Vice-President of Member Services for the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), a membership organization with over 21,000 members nationwide. Mr. Slabach has over 23 years of experience in the administration of rural hospitals. From 1987 through 2007, he was the administrator of the Field Memorial Community Hospital, in Centreville, Mississippi. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Oklahoma Baptist University and his Master of Public Health in Health Administration from the University of Oklahoma.
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PROGRAM CHAIR:
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Debra Cowan,
PharmD, Director of Pharmacy,
Angel Medical Center
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Debra Cowan, B.S. Pharm., Pharm.D, FASHP is Director of Pharmacy at Angel Medical Center, a critical access hospital. She has been a small and rural hospital pharmacist for 33 years with 25 of those years spent also as director. She was the first pharmacist to work at her current hospital. There she expanded pharmacy services to extensive clinical activities, pharmacy student preceptorship, and technologically-enhanced med safety procedures. Being a small hospital director, her job duties are multiple and varied ranging from staffing to providing community emergency preparedness.
She graduated from the University of New Mexico (B.S. Pharm) and the University of Colorado (NTPharmD). Currently she is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Cowan is a member of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). She has served on several ASHP committees including the Small and Rural Hospital Advisory group, Telepharmacy Task Force, and the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners Executive Committee as chair. She has served as moderator and/or speaker as well as led small and rural hospital networking sessions at recent ASHP midyear meetings.
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Description
Check It Out: Joint Commission Standards and Inspections for Small and Rural Hospitals, Jeannell Mansur, BS Pharm, PharmD, FASHP
Rural Relevant Quality Measures: Hope for Small, Rural Hospitals, Brock Slabach, MPH, FACHE
- Describe new programs such as NRHA quality measures and their impact in your setting.
- Explain differences in The Joint Commission and CMS standards and requirements for small, rural, critical access hospitals versus other hospitals.
- Name specific examples of how to meet measures/standards in an effort to improve patient outcomes.
