Kate Carpenter, BHA, CPHQ, RT(R)(M)(CT), Previous Clinical Quality Consultant, Current Director of Hospital Quality Initiatives, Iowa Healthcare Collaborative

Kate Carpenter is director of hospital quality initiatives at Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. She holds a bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration and is a NAHQ Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality. Carpenter leads the Compass Hospital Improvement and Innovation Network and leads the design of innovative quality, patient safety and performance improvement projects to drive sustainable and transformational improvement efforts across the care continuum. She serves as the co-lead to the PfP Readmissions Affinity Group and on the Iowa Care Coordination Statewide Strategy committee. Carpenter has 12 years of clinical experience in the medical imaging field and holds board certifications in general radiography, mammography and computed tomography.

Kady Reese, MPH, CPHQ, Previous Program Lead of Statewide Strategies, Iowa Healthcare Collaborative

Kady Reese served as the director of patient-centered design with the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. In this role, Reese directed statewide strategic operations aimed at development of cross-collaborative and multi-disciplinary standards for population health to address priority health issues and disease states. She offered an array of experience across the healthcare continuum, including home health, primary and urgent care practice, healthcare administration and quality reporting. She holds a master’s degree in public health from Benedictine University, as well as certificates in health management and policy and health education and promotion. She is a national champion for Person and Family Engagement with CMS as part of the Partnership for Patients and the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiatives. Reese is an ardent advocate for public and population health.

Patrica Dykes, PhD, MA, RN, FAAN, FAACMI, Senior Nurse Scientist, Program Director for Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Patricia Dykes, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Nurse Scientist, Program Director for Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice received her bachelor‘s degree in nursing from Fairfield University, a master’s degree in nursing from New York University and a doctorate in nursing informatics from Columbia University. Her interests are in quality and safety of care and adverse event prevention, especially as it relates to hospitalized inpatients. As principal investigator of an interdisciplinary research project funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Dykes led a team that established a link between a standardized fall risk scale with individualized tailored interventions to prevent patient falls in hospitals. Dykes and her team developed Fall TIPS, a decision-support and communication intervention for use by the care team, patients and family members to prevent patient falls. Over a six-month randomized-controlled trial, the use of Fall TIPS reduced in-hospital falls by 25%.

Srijesa Khasnabish, BA, Research Assistant

Srijesa Khasnabish is a research assistant working with Dr. Patricia Dykes on the Generalizabliity and Spread of an Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Toolkit: Fall TIPS. This is a multisite project in collaboration with New York-Presbyterian and Montefiore Healthcare systems to spread the Fall TIPS program. She has worked on the qualitative aspect of developing the Fall Prevention toolkit, through interviewing patients and staff through the Partners Healthcare system. She has assisted Dr. Dykes with numerous webinars, presentations, and workshops interested in implementing Fall TIPS across the country. She is currently a medical student at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.