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Patricia Posa, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K

Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager
Michigan Medicine
Northville, MI

Pat Posa RN, BSN, MSA, CCRN-K, FAAN, is the Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager for the Adult Hospitals at Michigan Medicine. In her role she is responsible for development, measurement and sustainability of the Adult Hospitals’ Quality and Patient Safety program.

Her prior role was a Quality Excellence Leader for St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Southeastern Michigan leading initiatives to reduce hospital acquired conditions, improve patient outcomes for critically ill patients and reduce readmissions.

She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Wayne State University and her Masters in Administration from Central Michigan University. She serves on the advisory board of Sepsis Alliance.

She has held various roles in healthcare in the hospital, ambulatory setting and health plan over her 44 years in practice including manager of inpatient critical care units, Director of Nursing and administrator of an outpatient multispecialty/primary care clinic.

Pat has been involved in many quality and patient safety programs such as, hospital and system wide sepsis management program and a statewide Keystone ICU patient safety initiative. She has been faculty for multiple state/national clinical collaboratives including the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Phase IV Collaborative, the national project on Comprehensive Unit Safety Program (CUSP) for Mechanically Ventilated Patients and Society of Critical Care Medicine’s ICU Liberation Collaborative. Pat has been a member and co-chair of SCCM’s ICU Liberation Committee. Through Pat's leadership St. Joseph Mercy Hospital was awarded the HHS/Critical Care Societies Outstanding Leadership in Eliminating CLABSI and VAP in 2011. She was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in 2013. Pat was awarded the Michigan Hospital Association Quality and Patient Safety Leadership Award in 2017.

Pat has published many articles in both clinical and quality journals. She lectures and consults nationally on sepsis, various critical care, patient safety/quality topics.




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