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Rola Aamar, PhD
Partner for behavioral health solutions. Her expertise is in:
- Behavioral health
- Data-driven insights
- Integrated care
- Clinical outcomes
- Quality improvement
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
- Psychological safety in the workplace
- Clinician support
- Culture of learning
Vince Baiera, BSN
Nurse and healthcare executive focused on post-acute care. His expertise is in:
- Skilled nursing education
- ICU and skilled nursing facility nursing
- Nursing innovation
- Staffing and retention
- Supply chain
- Clinical outcomes
- Healthcare operations
Johnny Bethea, BSPharm, RPh
Pharmacist and clinical services executive. His expertise is in:
- Medication therapy management
- Clinical quality measure and health outcomes
Cheri DeStefano, BSN, RN
Nurse and client success leader. Her expertise is in:
- Neonatal nursing
- Mother and baby nursing
- Maternal safety
John Harrington, CMI
Vice president of Relias' clinical solutions team. His training is in medicine and visual arts, and he is one of fewer than 400 individuals who holds a board certification in biomedical communications. His expertise is in:
- Patient safety and quality
- Risk management
- TeamSTEPPS training
- Maternal health and obstetrics
- Acute care
- Provider and nursing shortage
- Provider and nursing shortage
- Staff satisfaction and retention
- Virtual reality
- Orthopedics
- Neurology
Vicki Ittel, PhD, MBA
Licensed psychologist by training, healthcare executive, and entrepreneur. Her expertise is in:
- Behavioral health
- Opioid use disorder
- Program/business development
- Public health administration
- Health plan management
- Population health
Cara Lunsford, RN
Nurse and Vice President of Community at Nurse.com by Relias. Her expertise is in:
- Healthcare innovation
- Nursing retention
- Nurse support
- Pediatric oncology
- Home health
- Hospice
Ron Orth, BA, RN
Nurse certified in healthcare compliance and director of curriculum design for post-acute care. His expertise is in:
- Medicare regulations
- Prospective Payment System (PPS)
- Minimum Data Set (MDS) process for Medicare/Medicaid
- Long-term care
- ICD-10
Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB
Nurse and healthcare executive. Her expertise is in:
- Operational excellence/Baldridge framework
- Nurse residency and onboarding programs
- Transformational and authentic nurse leadership
- Nurse satisfaction and resilience
- Nurse recruitment and retention
- Organization-wide training and program development
- Continuous quality improvement
- Quality data and analytics
- Lean methodologies and principles
- Regulatory/accreditation
- CMS value-based purchasing models
Lora Sparkman, MHA, BSN, RN
Nurse and clinical effectiveness consultant. Her expertise is in:
- Maternal health and mortality
- Emergency department
- Behavioral health
- Healthcare operations
- Patient safety and high reliability
- Clinical operations and strategy
- Virtual reality
Leigh Steiner, PhD
Partner of behavioral health solutions. Her expertise is in:
- Organizational development
- Culture of learning
- Executive coaching
- Public mental health
- Speech communications
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Relias provides quality interprofessional continuing education.
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for healthcare teams.
Why joint accreditation matters
Interprofessional continuing education (ICPE) gets results:
- Improves outcomes — 12% decrease in medical incidents
- Increases retention — 25% higher retention at organizations that utilize interprofessional education
- Promotes collaboration — 83% agree that IPCE is important for collaboration
Relias develops interprofessional continuing education to create a collaborative, team-based approach, enabling clinicians to foster a respectful workplace and deliver effective treatments and better care.
The Joint Accreditation Provider for Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) designation, awarded by three major accrediting organizations in the United States, reinforces Relias’ commitment to fostering excellence in healthcare training and education.
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