Stratis Health News

MHA-Stratis Health Regional Meetings. Throughout April, Stratis Health and the Minnesota Hospital Association held six regional Patient Safety and Quality Meetings as forums for quality and patient safety professionals to discuss current issues, common barriers, and success stories, as well as the opportunity to network and problem-solve with peers.

Health Plan Performance Improvement Projects. For the Minnesota health plans that offer publicly subsidized health care programs, Stratis Health provides facilitation and consultation in developing, implementing, and evaluating performance improvement projects. Information about the performance improvement projects is available at www.stratishealth.org/providers/healthplanpips.html.

Staff changes at Stratis Health

Stratis Health welcomes new staff members. Joining our quality improvement staff, Kristi Wergin, RN, program manager, supports quality improvement in nursing homes. She has 30 years experience as a registered nurse with background in elder care, quality improvement, leadership, and management. She applies her interests in person-centered care, staff education and training, and measuring and improving customer and employee satisfaction.

Leslee Frisch, RN, case review manager, provides expertise in the areas of medical record review and data abstraction and serves as a key contact for beneficiaries, physicians, and providers throughout the medical record review process. She also assists in the administration of the Medicare Helpline and immediate appeal telephone lines.

National presentations

Karla Weng, MPH, program manager, presented "Community-Based Care Transitions: Rural Considerations" to the National Advisory Group on Rural Health and Human Services in February.

Paul Kleeberg, MD, REACH clinical director, gave federal testimony in January before the Health Information Technology Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup, on electronic health record implementation experiences as a regional extension center for health information technology.