Sammies nominees highlight superior public service
The Partnership for Public Service recently announced the finalists for the 2016 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.
McGann, Moody and Wagner
Federal Employee of the Year Winners
Dr. Paul McGann
Chief Medical Officer for Quality Improvement
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, Maryland
Jean D. Moody-Williams
Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, Maryland
Dennis Wagner
Director, Quality Improvement and Innovation Group
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Baltimore, Maryland
Paul McGann, Jean Moody-Williams and Dennis Wagner were named the Federal Employee of the Year Sept. 20, at the 2016 Service to America Medals ceremony. Read the full story here.
The trio created a public-private partnership within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help improve patient care by reducing accidents and avoidable infections. The Partnership for Patient Protection began in 2011 and worked to help hospitals rethink the way they worked to reduce hospital-acquired conditions.
“There has been an unprecedented 39 percent reduction in preventable patient harm in U.S. hospitals compared to the 2010 baseline. Their performance has resulted in 2.1 million fewer patients harmed, 87,000 lives saved and nearly $20 billion in cost-savings,” said Patrick Conway, CMS acting principal deputy administrator and chief medical officer.
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