Clinical Info Analyst Lead - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Nominator, Annemarie Forrest- "Sheryl is an exemplary team member. She cares deeply about her work and her colleagues. That sense of caring leads to unparalleled commitment to excellence and integrity and she is an invaluable asset to MISHC, BMC2, as well as to national TVT leadership. Sheryl has graciously handled change in workflow, management, and overall team membership at BMC2 in the last year and will be a critical player in expanding the scope of our work in the years to come."
Work Performance
Sheryl Fielding has demonstrated exemplary work performance throughout her career at Michigan Medicine. After using her expertise as a registered nurse in the catheterization lab and operating rooms, Sheryl joined the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2) Coordinating Center as a Clinical Quality Improvement Lead in 2010. Sheryl acts as the lead nurse educator for the Michigan Structural Heart Consortium (formerly Michigan TAVR), and supports other BMC2 projects focused on percutaneous coronary intervention and vascular surgery. In her role she works closely with her colleagues at BMC2, collaborates with peers at the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Quality Collaborative (MSTCVS) and the National STS/ACC NCDR TVT Registry, and supports structural heart physicians and coordinators, hospital system administrators, and registry coordinators across the State of Michigan by conducting chart reviews and site visits, developing reports and resources, and facilitating educational meetings to drive quality improvement.
Leadership
Customer Service
Sheryl’s primary role is to support hospitals across the State of Michigan conducting structural heart procedures in their quality improvement efforts (data collection, QI projects). She emphasizes caring and teamwork during site visits, she is always available to her customers to answer questions and provide feedback. She connects hospitals with one another who can learn from each others’ successes and challenges. She has even worked closely with hospitals to support the development of their programs, prior to being eligible to be a consortium member.
Our national registry partner recently underwent a version update. Sheryl spent countless hours updating associated MISHC training resources and revising reports and report dictionaries, and has taken the initiative to hold a series of statewide educational meetings to prepare our members for success with the national change.
Process Improvement
Sheryl recognized a gap in service that MISHC provides to structural heart teams across Michigan, and worked to fill that by creating a new working group for structural heart care coordinators and advance practice providers. Sheryl created a steering committee to identify work group goals and activities, facilitates quarterly educational and networking meetings for the group, and has supported efforts among this group to develop a best practice document and publication focused on preventing readmissions among the target patient population.