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)
  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
  Administrator Pediatric Service Line
  Banner Children's Hospital, Banner Health
  1400 South Dobson Road
  Mesa, Arizona 85202
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Laren Bates
  Board Member
  Banner Health Board of Directors
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Lynn Belcher
  VP, Nursing Services, Chief Nursing Officer
  Flagstaff Medical Center
  1200 North Beaver Street
  Flagstaff, Arizona 86001
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Bruce Bethancourt
  Chief Medical Officer
  Banner Medical Group
  525 West Brown, 9th Floor
  Mesa, Arizona 85201
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Bil Bruno
  Board Member
  Maricopa Integrated Health System
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Charles Chapin
  Director, Patient Safety
  Health Services Advisory Group
  1600 East Northern Avenue, Suite 100
  Phoenix, Arizona 85020
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Debra Finch
  Job Title: TBA
  Facilty: TBA
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Dan Ford
  Vice President
  Furst Group
  10333 North Oracle Road, #19205
  Oro Valley, Arizona 85737
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Patty Gray
  Regulatory/Infection Control Consultant
  Scottsdale Healthcare - Thompson Peak
  7400 East Thompson Peak Parkway
  Scottsdale, Arizona 85255
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Carolyn Jacobs
  Director, Performance Improvement
  Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center
  2200 E. Show Low Lake Roand
  Showlow, Arizona 85901-7800
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Ruth Kish
  Director of Patient Care Services, COO
  Copper Queen Community Hospital
  101 Cole Avenue
  Bisbee, Arizona 85603-1399
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Peter Kriger
  Board Member
  Yavapai Regional Medical Center
  3955 North Cactus Drive
  Chino Valley, Arizona 85323
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Linda McCoy
  Director of Pharmacy
  Yavapai Regional Medical Center (West Campus)
  1003 Willow Creek Road
  Prescott, Arizona 86301-1668
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Anne McNamara
  Dean of Nursing
  Grand Canyon University
  3300 West Camelback Road
  Phoenix, Arizona 85017
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Laura Robertson
  Chief Nursing Officer
  Banner Heart Hospital
  6750 East Baywood Avenue
  Mesa, Arizona 85206
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• Bruce Pearson
  Executive Vice President / Chief Executive Officer
  John C. Lincoln Hospitals
  250 East Dunlap Avenue
  Phoenix, Arizona 86020-2446
  Current Term Expires 12/2010
• Patrick Smith (chair-elect)
  Chief Medical Officer
  Carondelet St. Joseph's Hospital
  350 N. Wilmot Road
  Tucson, Arizona 87511
  Current Term Expires 12/2009
• 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
  Executive Vice President
  Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association
  2901 North Central Avenue, Ste. 900
  602-445-4300, ext. 4314