Donna Meador has been a nurse for over 30 years. Today, she works at the Kentucky Hospital Association (KHA) to oversee quality and patient safety activities. Along with 34 other state associations, KHA is pursuing ambitious goals under the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN) project. As the project’s director at KHA, Meador is working closely with hospital leadership and teams to ensure hospitals meet the goals set out by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as part of the HRET HIIN project. KHA is striving to reduce inpatient harm by 20 percent and readmissions by 12 percent by 2019. Among the 12 areas of focus for the goals is pressure ulcers.
To ensure hospitals have the training they need to reduce pressure ulcers, KHA and Wound Care Education Institute® (WCEI®) formalized a partnership in June 2017. WCEI will bring the Skin and Wound Management course to a group of KHA member hospital clinicians in a live classroom setting in February 2018 … read more