Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, Professor and Director of Cancer Survivorship for the University of North Carolina, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, along with twenty-seven others, was appointed to the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel (BRP). Deborah recently took a moment to share additional information with Registry Partners through a Q & A about the Cancer Moonshot Initiative and her involvement on the Blue…
If you work for a facility designated as a Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, are you ready for the Comprehensive Stroke measure changes going into effect on January 1, 2018? Below is an outline of the measures being suspended and new measures being added for data collection in 2018. Please familiarize yourself with these changes. Suspending CSTK-02: Modified Rankin Score (mRS) at 90 Days. Originally intended…
Shirley Arnall, RN, BSN, serves in the position of Validation Manager for the Registry Partners Quality Division. Other positions Shirley has held with Registry Partners include: Clinical Data Abstractor and Validation Specialist. Prior to joining Registry Partners, Shirley worked for five years as an Outcomes Specialist/Clinical Reviewer for HCA Lee’s Summit Medical Center in Missouri and has held positions as Quality Assessment Analyst and Quality Improvement…
Cari Vida, BS, RHIA, CTR – Ten years ago I joined the Registry Partners team and have been working remotely ever since. Over the course of these ten years I have held positions such as Quality Control Coordinator, Project Manager, Quality Control Director, Vice President of Quality, Education & Training and most recently Senior Vice President for the Oncology Services Division. With each new position…
