Decreasing surgical site infections (SSI) at lower costs is important to every hospital. Join us to hear about a pilot project at Kettering Health that promoted the use of low-cost povidone-iodine nasal swabs and resulted in a 70% decrease in the SSI rate over the course of the study. Dr. Ugwamaddu's project was instrumental in helping JCPH win a national innovation award in healthcare quality management education.
Chizoba Ugwummadu, MD, MS, FACP
Attending Physician
Kettering Health Network
Dr. Ugwummadu is an attending physician at Kettering Health in Ohio. Previously, he was Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and an attending physician at Ascension Saint Clare’s Hospital in Wisconsin. He has led multiple research projects at institutions around the world including Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD
Associate Professor
Program Director, Healthcare Quality & Safety, and
Operational Excellence
Jefferson College of Population Health
Dr. Cooper is Associate Professor of Population Health and Program Director for Healthcare Quality and Safety and Operational Excellence at JCPH. She designed and inaugurated the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Leadership (QIPS) program and the implementation of the Health System Science curriculum for the Sidney Kimmel Medical College in the JeffMD curriculum.
She is on the Board of the American College of Medical Quality, the QTIP Editor for the American Journal of Medical Quality, and a national speaker on patient safety, healthcare quality, leadership, and social determinants of health.