Michelle Newsom joined HQI in 2021 as a Safety and Reliability
Clinical Advisor. She earned her BSN from CSU Bakersfield and
began her nursing career in Labor and Delivery in 2012. In 2019,
she obtained her MSN in Nursing Administration from Aspen
University. Michelle has 6 years of patient care experience and
over 3 years of utilization management experience. During her
time in patient and care utilization review, she became
interested in patient safety and informatics.
Asma has over 15 years of administrative
Coordinator support experience, including ten years
supporting executives. Her experience includes project
coordination, documentation control, and database management. She
has a strong background in customer service. Asma supports CHPSO
with member contract and database management, team calendar
coordination, presentation development and travel arrangements.
Vivian earned a BSN from UCSF and began a career in ER
Nursing. After working in acute care for 13 years and
during the dot com period, she became interested in IT.
She has over a decade of experience in Programming,
Reporting and Data Analytics and Informatics. Her current
role as “Patient Safety Clinical Advisor” in CHPSO is the perfect
harmony of “clinical” and “analytics” and where translating
clinical practice information and improving patient care
intersect.
Imhoff joins HQI after heading the Maryland Patient Safety Center
for seven years. As President and CEO there, he successfully
partnered with hospitals to lead multiple improvement efforts,
including their perinatal/neonatal quality collaborative, sepsis
mortality reduction, falls reduction, and one of the most
rigorous hand hygiene compliance programs in the nation. He also
led efforts to pilot both an emotional support program for health
care providers called “Caring for the Caregiver” and a patient
safety certification program for hospitals.
Lexie Li has devoted her career on data analysis in healthcare
area upon graduating from UC Davis with a master’s degree in
Biostatistics and from SWUFE, China with a bachelor’s degree in
Statistics. She worked as a Senior Biostatistician in CALNOC for
two years in nurse sensitive endorsed measures research and
developing new interactive data reporting system. In HQI, Lexie
works on designing signal detection methods on finding unusual
data patterns in both HQIP and CHPSO database using cutting-edge
machine learning and statistics methods.
Tim has 34 years of in-depth experience in information technology
across many knowledge domains. That expertise includes a focus on
databases, system performance, virtualization, security, and
programming. He has written dozens of management and
monitoring tools and maintains 11 professional and technical
certifications. Tim supports the CHPSO application/database
pipeline and helps keep the larger Hospital Quality Institute
(HQI) back-end infrastructure running properly.
The CHPSO Participating Provider Agreement is broken down here in
three parts: Participating Provider Agreement, Exhibit 3.4 (BAA)
and Exhibit 8 (Out-of-State Fee Schedule).
