November 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ecuador: NGO's: Service: Patient Care: Preventable Patient Injuries: pickonine: RPCV Susan Sheridan is a consumer with a strong interest in partnering with other consumers and the healthcare system to improve care and avoid preventable patient injuries. Her special interest is kernicterus, a preventable newborn brain injury caused by elevated jaundice.
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November 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ecuador: NGO's: Service: Patient Care: Preventable Patient Injuries: pickonine: RPCV Susan Sheridan is a consumer with a strong interest in partnering with other consumers and the healthcare system to improve care and avoid preventable patient injuries. Her special interest is kernicterus, a preventable newborn brain injury caused by elevated jaundice.
RPCV Susan Sheridan is a consumer with a strong interest in partnering with other consumers and the healthcare system to improve care and avoid preventable patient injuries. Her special interest is kernicterus, a preventable newborn brain injury caused by elevated jaundice.
RPCV Susan Sheridan is a consumer with a strong interest in partnering with other consumers and the healthcare system to improve care and avoid preventable patient injuries. Her special interest is kernicterus, a preventable newborn brain injury caused by elevated jaundice.
Susan Sheridan, MIM, MBA, mother of Cal
Boise, ID
susansheridan@pickonline.org
Susan Sheridan is a consumer with a strong interest in partnering with other consumers and the healthcare system to improve care and avoid preventable patient injuries. Her special interest is kernicterus, a preventable newborn brain injury caused by elevated jaundice.
She is the founder of Jumpstart, a comprehensive educational/therapeutic immersion school for children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities located in Boise, Idaho, and a co-founder of PICK, Parents of Infants and Children with Kernicterus. She also is an Advisor to the Partnership for Patient Safety, a patient-centered initiative to advance the reliability of healthcare systems world-wide.
Susan is an active organizer and spokesperson on consumer health issues. She was invited to testify on the medical failures that affected her son at the first National Summit on Medical Errors and Patient Safety sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in September of 2000. Her testimony called for universal bilirubin testing of newborns and revised treatment guidelines, policies and procedures governing jaundice management. She also advocated a collaborative approach between consumers and professional groups, accreditation organizations and regulatory agencies involved in establishing standards of care for the detection and the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia. More generally, Susan's testimony called for institutional "safety nets" to help prevent avoidable patient injury, including a clear process for consumers to report medical errors they observe or experience. She stated that consumers need to be more active and more informed if they are to be successful partners in reducing the occurrence of medical errors. Her testimony is available at http://www.quic.gov/summit/wsheridan.htm
Following her testimony, the Sheridan family was featured in USA Today on October 11, 2000. Entitled, "Lethal medical errors often can be cured," the article generated an overwhelming response from readers that helped several families of children with kernicterus unite, resulting in the creation of PICK. Susan also offered a keynote presentation "Partnering with the Healthcare System: Moving from Rhetoric to Action" at The Partnership symposium, 2001:Patient Safety Stories of Success.
Susan has dual Masters degrees in International Management and Business Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Phoenix, AZ. Prior to 1992, Sue was Manager and Vice President of the International Trade Finance Department at First City Texas in Dallas. She and her husband served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Ecuador from 1987-1988. In addition to Cal, Pat and Sue have a younger child, Mackenzie, who escaped her brother's injury due to the early detection of her neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
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