She is a national expert in the implementation of patient safety and process improvement strategies in healthcare through participation in numerous national workgroups and patient safety clinical initiatives including Maternal Safety, VTE, ADE, Readmissions and Failure to Rescue. She is currently the Clinical Improvement Educator for a non-profit quality and patient safety organization in California leading the education and training efforts for statewide patient safety initiatives such as reduction of healthcare disparities, patient and family engagement, high reliability and prevention of healthcare associated harm. Ms. Werkmeister also assists individual hospitals, statewide collaboratives and multi-state collaboratives on a variety of other patient safety-related initiatives.