Ideas Worth Sharing: Top-Rated Patient Safety Posters

Meghan Schott, MSN, RN, LSSBB, is a Senior Quality Improvement Leader at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). She leads system-wide and cross-campus initiatives that improve patient safety, strengthen quality outcomes, and promote collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. With a clinical background in emergency nursing and experience in nursing professional development and education, Meghan brings both frontline and leadership perspectives to healthcare improvement.

Meghan was instrumental in the creation and implementation of TRACK, an innovative work management and loop-closure system designed to improve collaboration, accountability, and the timely resolution of complex organizational challenges. Through this work, she has helped establish standardized processes that empower frontline staff and leaders to identify, prioritize, and resolve opportunities for improvement while fostering a culture of continuous learning and shared accountability.

Meghan is passionate about building high reliability within healthcare organizations and helping teams translate quality improvement principles into practical, sustainable improvements that enhance patient care and operational excellence.

Jennifer Arrington, MSN, RN, CPHQ, is a healthcare quality improvement leader at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) with extensive experience designing and leading system-wide performance improvement initiatives. As Interim Senior Director of Quality Improvement, she oversees organizational quality strategies, partnering with clinical, operational, regulatory and analytics teams to advance patient safety and outcomes. Her work is grounded in High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles and focuses on creating sustainable systems that translate data into measurable improvement.

Jennifer has led numerous enterprise improvement efforts, including the redesign of the Potentially Preventable Complication and Patient Safety Indicator review process, development of quality improvement education programs and implementation of structures approaches to accountability and follow-through. She was instrumental in the design of T.R.A.C.K., a loop-closure process designed to ensure complex issues are systematically reviewed, assigned, monitored and resolved across multi-disciplinary teams.

Mackenzie Weber PT, DPT is board certified in neurologic physical therapy. Her clinical interest is in acute inpatient neuro rehabilitation treating diagnoses such as stroke, brain injury, MS, Parkinsons and other neurologic diagnoses. She completed her undergraduate degree at Marymount University and completed her doctorate in physical therapy at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She also holds the designation of certified brain injury specialist through the Brain Injury Association of America.

Over the last 30 years Ilana has worked in the field of Rehabilitation Nursing with an expertise in Neurological Rehabilitation. More than 15 of those years were spent practicing on the Neurological Rehabilitation Center of The Rehabilitation Institute at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Additionally, she is a surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). In this capacity, she travels to other rehabilitation facilities to survey their programs, offers consultation, and learns from other facilities. She served as a member of the Performance Improvement team involved in this project. 

Julianne Woodbury is a Senior Clinical Nurse with 12 years of bedside experience in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Her areas of focus include critical care nursing, staff education, evidence-based practice, and process improvement focused on patient safety and the implementation of the A–F ICU Liberation Bundle. Through her work in staff education and quality improvement, Julianne has led initiatives to improve the application of evidence-based practices at the bedside, with a particular focus on spontaneous awakening and breathing trials and interdisciplinary collaboration. In addition to this year’s Mid-Atlantic Patient Safety Conference, her work has been presented at the Armstrong Institute’s Quality and Safety Summit and the Johns Hopkins SHINE Conference.