Dan Degnan

Experience

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  Community Health Network

  Jan 2001 - Apr 2013

  Provided leadership, vision and strategic planning for medication safety across various practice settings for a large integrated healthcare delivery network. Provided direction and leadership for process improvements related to adverse drug events and other factors that contribute to adverse patient outcomes as a result of medication use. Responsible for organizational response to serious safety events related to medications. Served as an effective agent for change within the organization to spread best medication practices. Show less Led a department providing progressive pharmacy services to approximately 200 inpatients daily. Responsibilities included personnel management for a staff of approximately 33 FTEs, monitoring a 5 million dollar drug budget and ongoing performance improvement. Accomplishments included completing a pharmacy automation analysis (carousels and automated packaging system), assuming leadership of the network medication safety committee and leading an interdisciplinary team through a medication reconciliation process improvement using the LEAN methodology Show less

  • Medication Safety Officer

    Dec 2006 - Apr 2013

  • Director of Pharmacy

    Jan 2001 - Dec 2006
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  Purdue University College of Pharmacy

  Apr 2013 - now

  Senior Project Manager

  Provide support to furthering the Center’s mission of making safe medication use common practice through collaborative projects, teaching healthcare practitioners about safe medication practices and through creating and disseminating the best known evidence regarding safe medication practices.