Merrill named Chair, Peri, Hemmelgarn and Keifer join Board of Directors for International Children's Hospitals' Patient Safety Collaborative
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The international children's hospital patient and employee safety network, Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) , has named Rick Merrill, president and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System, as its newest board chair.
- COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The international children's hospital patient and employee safety network, Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) , has named Rick Merrill, president and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System, as its newest board chair.
- SPS efforts have spared more than 25,000 children from serious harm and led to estimated savings of $533+ million.
- Merrill will assume the role of chair previously held by Marcy Doderer, president and CEO of Arkansas Children's.
- She was an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Chicago for ten years teaching in their master's program for patient safety.