2020-2021 participants
Carryn Anderson
Clinical Assistant Professor Radiation Oncology
Project focus: Improve recruitment for Radiation Oncology residency program by developing a strategic marketing and outreach plan.
Steven Anderson
Assistant Manager Guest Services
Project focus: Utilize the technology available via Epic Transport to automate transport assignments and making the patient escort program more efficient.
Lauren Dorzinski
Assistant Director Food and Nutrition Services
Project focus: Utilize Tableau to integrate existing CBORD data structures for enhanced decision support in food service operations.
Friederike Fischer
Hospitalist Internal Medicine
Project focus: The implementation of a timely inpatient medication reconciliation process to decrease length of stay, associated care costs, and to increase patient safety.
Max Freund
Director Marketing, Digital/Multimedia
Project focus: Rebuild of uihc.org and uichildrens.org on a new content management system. This project in full will tackle the functionalist, structure, and aesthetics of our two core patient-focused web properties.
Mariko Hagiwara
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Streamlining the process of inpatient transfers between UIHC and ICVA to gain back time consumed by team members, resulting in decrease in hospital occupancy rate and length of stay.
Gary E. Harnet
Nurse Manager Nursing
Project focus: Implement best practice strategies and new technology, to improve patient perception of noise, in and around their room, during their inpatient stay.
Michelle Havinga
Director Population Health Operations/ACO
Project focus: Increase volume of diabetic eye exams performed via IDx-DR, an AI diagnostic system.
Hermann Hounkponou
Senior Application Developer HCIS
Project focus: Collaborate with the Cherwell team in order to improve the data request process, ticket prioritization and time tracking for the Reporting and Analytics Team in HCIS.
Becky Humpal
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Nursing
Project focus: Develop a comprehensive wound care approach to decreasing surgical site infections in cesarean section patients which can be expanded to an organizational level.
Randy Jenkins
Assistant Director Engineering Services
Project focus: Controlling Engineering Services supply costs by streamlining ordering and inventory processes.
Dana Jones
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner Nursing
Project focus: Work with CMS and other major insurance companies to add a qualifier to coding and billing to allow APP specialty recognition for reimbursement for services.
Jennifer Krantz
Assistant Nurse Manager Family Medicine
Project focus: Improve the current workflow in which clinical delays are communicated to patients thus improving patient's perception about delays and also improving Press Ganey scores for IRL East Family Medicine patients.
Andy Kuse
Life Safety Manager Engineering Services
Project focus: Improve the accountability and accuracy of inspection testing and maintenances activities at UIHC through measurable database platforms.
Douglas E. Laux
Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Improve mentorship program for clinical investigators within the HCCC, and develop a program to train and assist physicians in conducting investigator initiated clinical trials.
Alex Mersch
Manager Specialty Pharmacy
Project focus: Enhancing prescription capture rate through growth of a centralized specialty pharmacy model.
Wendy Meyers
Administrative Services Specialist Marketing and Communication
Project focus: Strengthen communication to our UI Health Care providers, and implement ways to improve provider to provider communication - both internally and externally.
Alex Nance
Director Office of the Patient Experience
Project focus: Development of a comprehensive Ambulatory C3 Curriculum to be implemented in UI Health Care’s Clinics.
Santiago Ortega
Clinical Associate Professor Neurology
Project focus: Expand the neurointerventional program throughout the state including telemedicine, and satellite sites for acute coverage.
Dionne F. Peacher
Clinical Assistant Professor Anesthesia
Project focus: Improve patient safety and medication documentation administration by adoption of intraoperative infusion pump integration.
Stefanie Pirkl
HR Director Pediatrics
Project focus: Enhance Pediatric's administrative staff development.
Ryon Rasmussen
Fellow UIP
Project focus: Provide the appropriate resources for both employees and employers when it comes to COVID-19 testing.
Irena G. Rupp
Clinical Assistant Professor Surgery
Project focus: Evaluate impact of COVID-19 on surgeons and surgical patients, as well as volume of elective surgeries at UIHC compared to normal operation.
Kathryn Steffen
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Pediatrics
Project focus: Evaluation of APP transition to practice at UIHC and implementation of Transition to Practice Fellowship to support new graduate APPs through formalized curriculum, mentoring and fostering of research and publication.
Bridget Toomey
Assistant Director OBGYN
Project focus: Institute a labor and delivery center of excellence by creating a culture of mutual respect, improving communication, improving maternal and neonatal outcomes, and planning an overall vision for OBGYN at UIHC.
Erin Willits
Fellow Hospital Administration
Project focus: Creating and implementing an electronic tool for timely review of staffing data.
Brandy Wood
Associate Director Finance
Project focus: Implementation of a rolling forecast to be used at UIHC, which will allow for real time assessments and increased flexibility in financial decisions.
Yousef Zakharia
Clinical Associate Professor Internal Medicine
Project focus: Grow the Phase 1 Clinical Trials Program at HCCC and bring innovative treatment options for our cancer patients.