“The Fellowship experience has put me in contact with many of the thought leaders and doers in cultural competency. The experience has allowed me to better strategize cultural competency within my organization and recognize its place as a prerequisite to quality service delivery.”
W. Kent Guion, MD
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Medical College of Georgia
“The quality of the program faculty, educational materials, exercises, and the talents of the other fellows eliminated ambiguity and shed light on challenges inherent in planning and implementing an effective and measurable cultural competence program.”
Rita Adeniran, RN, MSN, CMAC
Global Nurse Ambassador
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/
School of Nursing
“The CCL Fellowship allowed me to begin a program of research, expand my professional network and, more importantly, grow new relationships with the best problem solvers from across the country working on questions of diversity.”
Deborah Washington, RN, MSN
Director, Patient Care Services Diversity
Massachusetts General Hospital
“The Fellowship experiences have helped our team to accurately assess and guide our organization on its journey to becoming a highly culturally competent educational organization. It was a tremendous experience, personally and professionally, and we highly recommend it.”
Kay Edwards, DrPH ARNP, BC
Professor
University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
Beverly Patchell, RN, MS, CNS
Project Director
University of Oklahoma College of Nursing
“An unexpected outcome of the Fellowship was developing a community of experts to which I can turn when faced with a patient safety challenge in my own organization. The support and advice provided by the other Fellows was—and continues to be—indispensable. The front-line perspective of the Fellows provides ‘real world’ balance to the theoretical, academic lessons of the program. When in the trenches, the support and advice of my Fellowship colleagues helps me navigate in my day-to-day work.”
Kathy Leonhardt, MD, MPH
Associate Medical Director, Care Management
Aurora Health Care
“HRET and partners have shown a true commitment to patient and family-centered care by having me, a patient advocate, participate in this program. The experience has expanded my knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding patient safety that will enable me to continue to be an effective partner with health care.”
Linda Kenney
President
Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (MITSS)
“The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship provided me with a network of national safety experts. I’m not alone in my journey toward changing a culture anymore. Not only do I now have a network of colleagues across the country who are struggling with the same issues, but I have vast resources to tap into when I confront barriers. Fellowship faculty are world-renowned experts in patient safety, but it was clear that their main goal was to share their knowledge and experience to enable us to make our care environments safer for our patients.”
Nancy Page, MS APRN, BC-ADM, CDE
Coordinator of Nursing Practice
University Hospital-Syracuse
“In our day-to-day work we naturally tend to focus more on the application of patient safety tools and techniques—reporting systems, root cause analysis, bar coding, eMAR, provider order entry. The Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship allows participants to take a giant step back and reexamine and rethink their fundamental assumptions and approaches to the field of patient safety. Rather than ask Fellows to "think outside the box," the program offers an invaluable opportunity to ask, "What box?"”
Georgia Peirce
Director of Communications
Patient Care Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
“The bonding that occurred in our group was one of the most important elements of the program. We came to trust and understand one another’s perspectives such that we opened surprising channels of learning and developed a real “fellowship.””
David Baron, MD
Primary Care Internist, and Chair of
Patient Safety Committee
Cambridge Health Alliance
“The Creating Healthier Communities Fellowship has been an excellent learning experience. The Fellowship faculty is second to none and challenged each of us to use unique approaches in creating healthier communities and apply them to existing projects in our own communities.”
Lowell C. Kruse, MHA
President & CEO
Heartland Health
St. Joseph, MO
“Patient Safety is every patient’s right and everyone’s responsibility in health care. Leaders who understand this, and have the expertise and tools to impact their organizations, are essential to success in this arena. This Fellowship program is a major investment in the growth and development of patient safety leaders who will inspire us all to pursue harm free patient care practices.”
Bill Gillespie, MD
Executive Vice President
Quality Management & Clinical Information Development
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Oakland, CA
“The Health Forum Cardiovascular Health Fellowship is the best way I know for health care professionals to equip themselves to work in the community. Cardiovascular Disease is the leading cause of death in this country. This Fellowship prepares Fellows to plan and implement cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment programs in the community. The program content, the energy from the faculty and Fellow participants, and the many opportunities for hands-on learning make this program unbeatable.”
Daniel W. Jones, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Hypertension
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
“Looking back on our experience in the Fellowship program, we have likened it to those rare and fine journeys from which you reap the benefits and reqards long after you return home. In the case of the Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship program we have experienced the national community of patient safety and returned home with a new and more enlightened focus on how we can move the safe care agenda forward—not alone but together with our Fellow(ship) travelers.”
John Brookey, MD
Assistant Associate Medical Director
Kaiser Permanente
Southern California
Pasadena, CA
Suzanne Graham, PhD, MA, RN
Patient Safety Practice Leader
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, CA
Lizabeth R. Taghavi
Manager, National Environmental Health and Safety
Kaiser Permanente
Rockville, MD
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