Sepsis Consortium Webinar: Blood Cultures: Maximizing the Value by Improving Collection
On December 12, Deb Campbell, VP of Clinical Strategy and Transformation, shared our data, the plans for 2025 topics, and an HRIP reminder on the specially scheduled holiday Sepsis Consortium webinar. She was then joined by Tammy Johnson, RN, BS, CPM, Strategy and Relations AVP, National Clinical, Magnolia Medical Technologies, who discussed tactics to continue to improve our rates of blood culture contamination. This will be a focus as it will be part of our proposed metrics for HRIP.
Speaker: Tammy Johnson, RN, BS, CPM AVP, National Clinical Strategy and Relations Magnolia Medical Technologies
Tammy Johnson is a healthcare executive with over 30 years in nursing, 14 as a nurse leader, whose focus has been on raising standards of care for patients, optimizing outcomes and decreasing healthcare spend by first preventing patient harm. Through presentations at APIC, AVA, INS, SCASM, ENA, AHA, AONL, various hospital associations and other organizations, in addition to an invitation to address the Presidential Advisory Council Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Washington, DC, Tammy has championed awareness of evidence-based, metric-driven improvement processes and programs that result in sustainable, positive outcomes for patients. Tammy holds degrees in nursing, business, and health care management.