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AHA Associates Bringing Value Podcast – Episode 57: Revolutionizing Patient Quality, Care, and Safety at Boston Children’s Hospital

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In this episode, Kathleen Wessel, VP of Business Management and Operations at the AHA, is joined by Henry Tomasuolo, Senior Vice President for Support Services at Boston Children’s Hospital; Angus Bruce, Enterprise Director, Sterile Processing Department, at Boston Children’s; Leslie Basham, President and CEO of Surgical Directions; and Amanda Kieser Montgomery, Managing Director, Client Services, at Surgical Directions, to discuss how Surgical Directions partnered with Boston Children’s Hospital to revolutionize its Central Sterile Processing Department.

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  • Leslie Basham

    Leslie is passionate about partnering with healthcare executives to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve, while profitably growing their organizations. As President and CEO of Surgical Directions, Leslie is responsible for building meaningful relationships with clinicians and administrators, ensuring high quality work and insights, and delivering measurable outcomes.

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  • Amanda Kieser Montgomery

    Amanda is a transformational leader with the ability to inspire and empower teams to drive results. Her experience in operational and process improvement initiatives spans clinical and non-clinical departments in academic medical centers. In the perioperative service line, Amanda has proven positive outcomes in increased block utilization, improved resource allocation and optimized scheduling processes.

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  • Angus Bruce

    Angus has over 30 years in the Sterile Processing field and over 25 years in management. He started his career as a high school student in a healthcare professionals’ program in the city of Boston. Angus has worked as an SPD technician, Lead Tech, Supervisor, Educator, SPD Manager, SPD Director and taught Sterile Processing at the Community College Level. Angus obtained his college degree from Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. Angus is Lean Six Sigma certified and is a transformational leader with the ability to inspire and empower teams to deliver results. He has a passion for educating fellow peers on current standards and creating roadmaps to optimize Sterile Processing Departments. Angus has also helped design several Sterile Processing departments from the capital purchasing process through to installation.

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  • Henry Tomasuolo

    Experienced operations leader with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Performance Improvement, Medical Devices, Medicaid, and Healthcare Industry. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Economics from Columbia University in the City of New York.

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  • Accomplished healthcare executive with 20+ years of successfully designing, leading, and executing a broad range of growth and realignment initiatives. Oversees account teams and delivery strategies, and directs marketing, data, analytics, and financial departments. Creates and executes strategic marketing and sales support plans. Develops and launches new business ventures. Previous experience includes managing IT, data, and finance areas, including implementing program databases, web sites, digital marketing programs, and CRM. Tenacious, agile, and interpersonally successful at all levels.

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Leslie is passionate about partnering with healthcare executives to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve, while profitably growing their organizations. As President and CEO of Surgical Directions, Leslie is responsible for building meaningful relationships with clinicians and administrators, ensuring high quality work and insights, and delivering measurable outcomes.

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