Mimi Saffer Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I lead teams running quality improvement collaborations among children's hospitals and advocating on behalf of children and children's hospitals for quality measurement.

NACHRI's Quality Transformation Network, 88 children's hospitals and growing, is the largest quality improvement network in pediatrics. By joining forces on high impact clinical challenges like preventable infections, QTN hospitals are improving care, outcomes, and safety faster and at lower cost than any one hospital can achieve working alone. As of March 2011, QTN hospitals had prevented over 2600 infections, saved 319 lives, and saved the health care system $93.3 million. As Director of Network Development, I'm responsible for bringing more hospitals into the QTN and for working with hospital decision makers to ensure the QTN meets their needs for quality improvement.

Business development and program development enabling 75-year old organization to expand beyond historic focus on standards/examination development to engage directly in efforts to improve quality and safety in hospital and practice settings.

The Alliance members are the American Board of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions, and Child Health Corporation of America. As E.D. I defined and managed “Improve First”, a program promoting initiatives that are improving outcomes in order to expand participation; provided business and financial planning, and coordinated executive representation from members.

Selected clients include The People's Pharmacy, The North Carolina Consortium for Natural Medicines and Public Health, and The School of Pharmacy at University of North Carolina.

Venture-backed healthcare firm delivering personalized care programs through a proprietary technology platform. I was a co-founder of the firm, which grew to 16 contracts, 200,000 active patients, and $9 million in revenues by its 3rd year. ProMedex raised $7 million in venture capital and was acquired for $110 million in 2000.

Responsible for $13 million product line and division of 80 writers, software developers, and editors. Developed new product lines and operational innovations that increased revenues and profitability, improved quality and productivity. Introduced project management methodologies, QA testing practices, and usability testing.

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