Julie Wohrley

• Provide medical leadership and expertise in developing, implementing and overseeing infection prevention and control policies, procedures and guidelines within the healthcare setting.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders including clinical staff, hospital administration, and public health agencies, to maintain a safe and healthy environment for patients and staff.
• Provide leadership and expertise for patient safety efforts relating to infection prevention through collaboration with the patient safety team and leadership.
• Design, evaluate and implement strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections through collaboration with healthcare teams and leadership with a focus on system.
• Develop strategies to address and manage infectious disease and outbreaks, in order to mitigate and prevent future exposure to patients and families.
• Partner with the system infection prevention and control officer to achieve reductions in healthcare-associated infections, manage outbreaks, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Provide medical leadership and expertise through development, implementation, and oversight of patient safety programs that seek to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Work closely with clinical and administrative teams and leadership, risk management, and other stakeholders to identify and mitigate risk, implement corrective action plans and improve patient safety practices.
• Foster a culture of safety that promotes open communication, encouraging reporting of errors and near misses, and supports constructive and just culture to identify root causes for errors, leading to reduction and/or elimination of errors in the healthcare system.
• Lead work that identifies gaps that support a system design to reduce errors.
• Review individual serious safety events, unanticipated outcomes and near misses, for trends which allow for identification of system level opportunities and lead to improvements in patient safety.

• Provide inpatient and outpatient consultative services for infectious diseases affecting infants, children, and adolescents.
• Support local (multistate) health departments in providing care for infants, children, and adolescents affected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• Worked collaboratively to develop and implement evidence-based guidelines for cytomegalovirus infections affecting neonates.
• Worked collaboratively with the maternal-fetal-medicine physicians to provide care using evidence-based guidelines for maternal and neonatal HIV exposed neonates.
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10/31/2023 privileges not renewed

• Collaborated with leadership at OSF St. Francis Medical Center and University of Illinois College of Medicine to establish the framework for a collaboration between the two entities whose goal was to increase physician knowledge and skills in QI, allowing for the integration of knowledgeable and motivated physicians into the high reliability 18 hospital Six Sigma integrated health system.
• Developed, implemented and taught a quality improvement curriculum for physician faculty at University of Illinois College of Medicine based on a rapid improvement model utilizing quality improvement projects within the healthcare system to teach QI to physicians and residents.
• Quality improvement projects completed included implementation of an opt-out policy of HIV testing for patients 13-64 years of age cared for at the OSF St. Francis Medical Center Hospital.
• Developed and implemented an online portal for the implementation of quality improvement curriculum, project management, tools for rapid improvement model, and metrics related to these projects
• Mentored physician faculty and their residents, coaching them to present to OSF St. Francis Medical Center leadership with regard to their project action plans and implementation metrics.

• Led project on reducing ICU readmissions at OSF St. Francis Medical Center

• Directed clinical operations to enhance patient care and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.
• Implemented strategic initiatives that improved operational efficiency across multiple departments.
• Oversaw the development and execution of clinical protocols, enhancing quality of care standards.
• Led multidisciplinary teams in assessing healthcare delivery models for improved patient outcomes.

• Developed and implemented a new pediatric sedation service