Stephen Davidow, Mba-Hcm, Lssbb, Cphq, Apr Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Restructured quality management program focused on the use of A3 thinking.
• Coordinated effort to improve patient flow for hospital services including the ED to admitting process, floor-nurse patient receiving process; and patient discharge process dependent on lab orders, home oxygen needs.
• Coached A3 projects focused on improving radiology processes; compliance with federal sepsis measure; flow in the outpatient center; patient satisfaction on the floors; as well as timely discharges – created process.
• Developed flow charts and standard work protocol for assessing high-fall risk in ED, adult and pediatric patients, as well as Surviving Sepsis Campaign 1-hour bundle.
• Outlined new Good Catch program to encourage incident reporting.
• Introduced Just Culture concept as basis for patient safety program.

Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

• Created a comprehensive, eight-session process improvement curriculum for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Department staff, which included coaching on six varied improvement projects.
• Analyzed six months of organization-wide patient and medication barcode scanning data to identify barriers to achieving 95% compliance or higher that is required in the Leapfrog Group Hospital Patient Safety Survey.
• Analyzed data and provided recommendations for a high priority issue to identify ways to improve a major patient safety issue. Data analysis included:o Time of dayo Shifto Day of weeko Clinical unito Severity of.
• Defined clinical pathway flow chart for patient fall risk assessments including implementation of precautions based on risk assessment score
• Worked with internal department team to value-stream map the current state process to provide clinician credentialing information as part of the OPPE activity; identified several opportunities for improvement which are.
• Developed customized A3 and standard work templates, with a guide on how to use the A3 and which improvement tools are most often used in each box

Greater Chicago Area

• My healthcare quality improvement consulting services include:
• Scoping and organizing improvement projects
• Working directly with clinical teams to facilitate improvement projects
• Serving as an improvement adviser for large scale projects, such as collaboratives
• Training teams in process improvement
• Communicating about QI work through publication, poster and presentation

Chicago, IL

Served as the leader of PCPI's quality Improvement activities, including:- Training in QI methodologies and tools, such as Lean, Six Sigma, and the Model for Improvement- Leading Practices webinar series designed to share best practice and lessons among member organizations to support rapid quality improvement- Skills-building webinar series including.

Chicago, Illinois

I serve as the program manager for the AMA-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement's (PCPI) Quality improvement program, which is now developing a more robust quality improvement program to support physicians and other health care professionals in their efforts to improve the efficiency and quality of care they deliver to patients.I will.

Mt. Prospect, IL

The purpose of my role at SCCM is to work closely with key stakeholders (volunteer leaders and partner organizations) to develop and support implementation of critical care quality initiatives leading to changes in health care provider behavior resulting in improved patient outcomes. The primary program I will be working on is the Surviving Sepsis.

During my career, I have:- Served on the planning committee for the Chicagoland Patient Safety Summit- Created the quality reporting Web pages for Loyola University Health System – the first of any academic medical center in the Chicago area.- Worked at The Joint Commission and the Medicare Peer Review Organization for New York State.- Consulted with.

Davidow Communications is a national health care public relations consultancy based in suburban Chicago. Clients are from all aspects of the health care industry including medical centers, health plans, associations, policy institutes, and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Areas of expertise include strategic communications counseling, crisis.

• Developed extensive media relations programs, focused on oncology, cardiovascular care, neurosciences and pediatric medicine, for two academic medical centers.
• Spearheaded $200K advocacy communications program for the Nevada Hospital Association on 10 major policy issues.
• Managed CEO transition communications for inner-city nonprofit hospital.
• Developed a communitywide plan on communicating change in hospital trauma status.
• Counseled client and prepared constituent communications for contested CON application for 160 hospital beds.
• Coordinated award-winning strategic marketing communications campaigns for academic medical centers, health systems, and tertiary and community hospitals.

• Secured extensive media coverage focused on the world’s smallest surviving baby.
• Launched and completed the public education phase of the PolyHeme blood substitute clinical study with extensive local and national media coverage and community forums.
• Increased frequency, depth, and context of media coverage for LUHS fourfold; garnered coverage for many other national stories enhancing the institution’s reputation in key service lines
• Developed institutionwide disaster communications plan in preparation for the $16 million international exercise, TOPOFF2, coordinated by U.S. Department of Homeland Security; secured four live feeds for CNN, and the.
• Oversaw eight staff members (media relations, video production, and photography) and coordinated work of outside consultants and PR firm.

• Coordinated strategic planning and business development processes.
• Supported development efforts with high-impact communications.
• Developed new identity and logo for HRET.
• Coordinated new identity program for $10 million grant-funded program.
• Wrote and produced a highly successful annual report.
• Coordinated development of three Web sites—one was a $750,000 effort of Netscape, Hewlett-Packard, Informix, Fort Point, and Frontier Global Center.

• Increased proactive media coverage by tenfold and placed stories that increased understanding and support for the organization’s mission, programs, and initiatives.
• Developed and implemented campaign to assist consumers in choosing quality health care services based on series of five brochures. Distributed 25,000 sets of brochures to the public and received more than 600 million.

• Increased previous media coverage for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital twentyfold, positioning its researchers as experts on numerous pediatric illnesses.
• Developed and implemented award-winning media campaign for an ethic institute’s report on euthanasia, politics, and religion, generating coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, ABC’s Good.

• Managed society’s initiative to remove state health commissioner and improve state’s regulatory climate, generating major national and state media coverage.
• Initiated and coordinated campaigns with state health department on Lyme disease and adverse drug reactions in elderly; kicked off by Governor Cuomo.
• Developed physician-focused train-the-trainer programs on AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, Lyme disease, and adverse drug reactions.
• Developed and implemented successful news release program on monthly New York State Journal of Medicine; more than 70 million impressions in the first year.

• Wrote news releases and radio actualities on JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association and the Archives journals; prepared Health & Safety PSAs for American medical Radio News
• Coordinated efforts on the AMA’s federation education efforts on HIV and AIDS
• Developed hospital components to AMA’s Tobacco-Free Society Physician Leadership Campaign

Six Sigma Green Belt In Healthcare

Certificate In Lean Healthcare

Mba, Health Care Management

Certificate, Healthcare Management

Graduate Coursework, Health Policy And Administration

Ba, Russian Studies, Literature

Certificate, Russian Language

Summer Language Immersion Program at the Russian Studies Institute in Brookline.