Expert Panel on Building Health Care System Excellence

Building on the seminal contribution of the Magnet Program, launched originally by the American Academy of Nursing, this expert panel gathers, disseminates, and translates evidence about nursing’s unique contributions to achieving value based healthcare.

Inaugural Year: 2013

Chair:
Susan Grant, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer
Wellstar Health System

Vice Chair:
David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, CENP, NEA-BC, NHDP-BC, FAAN, FAONL
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive 
Cedars-Sinai

Board Liaison: Karen Drenkard

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

Previous Chairs: Maureen McCausland (2020-2022), Kimberly Glassman (2019-2020), Jeffrey Adams (2018-2019), Sharon Pappas (2017-2018), Deb Zimmerman (2016-2017), Joyce Batcheller (2016-2016), Donna Havens (2014-2015), Pat Reid Ponte (2013-2014), Gail Wolf (2013-2014)

Summary:
The Expert Panel on Building Health Care System Excellence recognizes the importance of research and actively encourages it through the outcomes component of the Magnet Model. The Expert Panel gathers, disseminates, and translates evidence about nursing's unique contributions to achieving value based healthcare.

The five major focus areas of this expert panel are healthcare practice environments across the continuum; healthcare workforce; the Academy’s role in advancing the Magnet Program efforts; team based care including patients and service-academic partnerships.

Publications:

• Policy Dialogue: Optimizing the Nursing Workforce: Exploring Innovative Reforms and Policy Implications (Hosted in May 2022)
  Hosted by the Building Health Care System Excellence Expert Panel in collaboration with the Expert Panels on Quality Health Care and Acute and Critical Care, this dialogue focused on current workforce shortages, projected workforce demands, and models of care that optimize nurses’ expertise to enhance care delivery.
  
  
• Consensus Recommendations to Advance System Level Change for Nurse Well-Being (February 1, 2023)

• Policy Dialogue: Healthcare Systems Post-COVID: Exploring Reforms & Policy Implications (Hosted in December 2021)
  Hosted by the Building Health Care System Excellence Expert Panel in Collaboration with the Expert Panels on Palliative and End of Life Care; Military and Veterans Health; and Acute and Critical Care, this dialogue featured thought-provoking discussion about policy issues associated with the complexity of healthcare systems and their resulting burdens through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic. Leading experts discussed the innovations implemented during the pandemic as well as the policy initiatives introduced to address health care solutions needed in the post-pandemic world.

• Policy Dialogue: Public Health Preparedness and IT: Lessons from the Field (Hosted in August 2021)
  Hosted by the Informatics and Technology Expert Panel in Collaboration with the Expert Panels on Environmental and Public Health; Health Equity; and Building Health Care System Excellence, this dialogue featured a discussion on addressing global infectious disease challenges with thought leaders on health informatics, technology, and global public health. These experts summarized the lessons learned in response to COVID-19 pandemic so far and proposals to improve Health IT infrastructure and reporting so that public health and infectious disease responses can be more efficient.

• Position statement: Improving the care and health of populations through optimal use of clinical nurse specialists (July 2020)
• Policy Brief: Improve nurses’ well-being and joy in work: Implement true interprofessional teams and address electronic health record usability issues (November-December 2019)
• Policy Brief: Requiring a nurse residency for newly licensed registered nurses. (May/June 2018)
• Policy Brief: Engaging communities in creating health: Leveraging community benefit. (September/October 2017)
• Nursing Leadership's Role in Addressing the Quadruple Aim. Nursing Leading, June 2017 (Volume 15)
• 2010  Magnet: Next Generation, Maggie McClure, RN, EDd, FAAN
• 2010  American Nurses Credentialing Center Response to “Magnet® status doesn’t improve nurses’ working conditions” published in ANA SmartBrief.

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