Mary Elizabeth Kennedy

Mary Elizabeth Kennedy (Col ’89) helped develop and improve a proprietary clinical key indicator dashboard for the pediatric intensive care unit while working in the critical care department at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The PICU dashboard tracks the patient quality and safety indicator bundle recommended by the Joint Commission. Ms. Kennedy also created several original components for the dashboard, including the neurological indicator section to help increase early awareness of potential deterioration in patients. A study based on the dashboard project appears in the September 2015 issue of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.