Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association

Patient Safety Steering Committee

Mission
Supporting and engaging Arizona consumers, hospitals and healthcare organizations in patient safety efforts to create a safety culture that improves patient outcomes and health care systems.

Vision
To partner and work collaboratively with consumers, industry and community to make Arizona the safest state in the United States in which to receive healthcare. We will achieve the vision by improving cultural conditions and advocating in concert with other patient safety-minded organizations for patient safety initiatives, practices and outcomes.

Click here to see the PSSC Charter.

Click here to see the PSSC Calendar.

2008 PSSC Committee Members are listed below:

• Maureen Dicker (chair), MS, FACHE
  Network 18 Patient Safety Officer
  Veterans Integrated Service Network 18
  6950 East Williams Field Road
  Mesa, Arizona 85212-6033
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Rhonda Anderson, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACHE
  Administrator Pediatric Service Line
  Banner Children's Hospital, Banner Health
  1400 South Dobson Road
  Mesa, Arizona 85202
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
• Laren Bates
  Board Member
  Banner Health Board of Directors
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Bruce Bethancourt, MD
  Chief Medical Officer
  Banner Medical Group
  4400 North 32nd Street #140
  Phoenix, Arizona 85018
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Bil Bruno
  Board Member
  Maricopa Integrated Health System
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Debra Finch, RN, PhD
  Job Title: TBA
  Facilty: TBA
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Dan Ford, MBA
  Vice President
  Furst Group
  10333 North Oracle Road, #19205
  Oro Valley, Arizona 85737
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
• Alice Gagnaire, RN, BSN, MHSA
  Senior Vice President
  Flagstaff Medical Center
  1200 North Beaver Street
  Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
• Patty Gray, RN, BA, CIC
  Regulatory/Infection Control Consultant
  Scottsdale Healthcare - Thompson Peak
  7400 East Thompson Peak Parkway
  Scottsdale, Arizona 85255
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Ruth Kish, RN, MN
  Director of Patient Care Services, COO
  Copper Queen Community Hospital
  101 Cole Avenue
  Bisbee, Arizona 85603-1399
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Peter Kriger, LFACHE
  Board Member
  Yavapai Regional Medical Center
  3955 North Cactus Drive
  Chino Valley, Arizona 85323
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Linda McCoy, Pharm.D
  Director of Pharmacy
  Yavapai Regional Medical Center (West Campus)
  1003 Willow Creek Road
  Prescott, Arizona 86301-1668
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
• Elizabeth McNamee, MPH, FACHE
  Associate Director
  St. Luke's Health Initiatives
  2929 North Central Avenue, Suite 1550
  Phoenix, Arizona 85012
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
• Laura Robertson, RN, BSN, MBA/HCM
  Chief Nursing Officer
  Banner Heart Hospital
  6750 East Baywood Avenue
  Mesa, Arizona 85206
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Andrea Silvey, MSN, PhD
  Chief Quality Improvement Officer
  Health Services Advisory Group
  1600 East Northern Avenue, Suite 100
  Phoenix, Arizona 85020
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Patrick Smith (chair-elect), MD
  Chief Medical Officer
  Carondelet Health Network
  5269 North Pontatoc
  Tucson, Arizona 85718
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Andreas A. Theodorou, MD
  Professor of Clnical Pediatrics
  Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  Associate Head, Department of Pediatrics
  Co-Director, UMC Center for Quality and Safety
  University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
  P.O. Box 245073
  Tucson, Arizona 85724-5073
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
• Pat Walz
  Chief Financial Officer
  Yuma Regional Medical Center
  2400 South Avenue A
  Yuma, Arizona 85364-2000
  Current Term Expires 12/2008
  

Primary AzHHA Representative:

• Adda Alexander, RN, MBA
  Executive Vice President
  Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
  2901 North Central Avenue, Ste. 900
  602-445-4300, ext. 4314