Patricia J. Posa, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K

Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager
Michigan Medicine
Northville, MI

Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K, FAAN, is the Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager for the University Hospital and Cardiovascular Center at Michigan Medicine. In this role she is responsible for development, measurement and sustainability of the UH/CVC segment quality and patient safety program.
Pat Posa was previously a Quality Excellence Leader for St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Southeastern Michigan leading initiatives to reduce hospital acquired conditions, improve patient outcomes for critically ill patients and reduce readmissions. She also worked as the Population Health Clinical Integration Leader. In this role she has implemented a risk prediction tool and associated interventions within the hospital and post-acute settings.

She has held various roles in healthcare in the hospital, ambulatory setting and health plan over her 42 years in practice including manager of inpatient critical care units, Director of Nursing and administrator of an outpatient multispecialty/primary care clinic.

Pat has been involved in many quality and patient safety programs such as, hospital and system wide sepsis management program and a statewide Keystone ICU patient safety initiative in Michigan. She has been faculty for multiple state and national clinical collaboratives including the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Phase IV Collaborative, the national project on Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) for Mechanically Ventilated Patients and Society of Critical Care Medicine’s ICU Liberation Collaborative. Pat has been a member and co-chair of SCCM’s ICU Liberation Committee.

Pat has published many articles in both clinical and quality journals. She lectures and consults extensively nationally on sepsis, various critical care, patient safety and quality topics.

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Presentation(s):

• What We Permit, We Promote: Developing and Maintaining a Culture of Patient Safety in Diverse ICUs

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US CST

• Panel Discussion

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  12:00 PM – 1:00 PM US CST

• Using the ICU Liberation Toolkit to Facilitate Bundle Implementation

  Thursday, April 21, 2022
  3:00 PM – 4:00 PM US CST