 | Lisa Anderson, MSN, RN
Vice President of Member Services |
Lisa Anderson, MSN, RN, has been with The Center for 13 years. During this time, she has developed, implemented and managed countless projects that address critical healthcare workforce issues in the community. Her background as an administrator in nursing and healthcare gives her the knowledge and strength to continuously seek new opportunities for increasing efficiencies and improve the healthcare workforce in Northeast Ohio.
Her administrative experience includes operations, fiscal management, planning and development and employee management. She currently oversees the Member Services department, which includes The Center’s healthcare workforce initiative NEONI, hospital emergency preparedness, and hospital finance and reimbursement. Additionally, she supports The Center’s non-profit board, the Greater Cleveland Hospital Association Board of Trustees.
As the creator of The Center for Health Affairs healthcare workforce initiative NEONI, Lisa and her team represent the best interests of healthcare employers, educators and professional nursing associations. Currently, NEONI membership consists of 200 professional nurses, representing 74 organizations in 12 Northeast Ohio counties. Lisa has brought in over $900,000 in grant funding and also implemented several fee-for-service programs including StudentMAX™.
Because of her talent writing and implementing grant projects, in 2007, Lisa and a team of community stakeholders were awarded a two-year grant from the Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) program, an initiative of RWJF. The PIN program worked collaboratively with nursing stakeholders to create a pathway for registered nurses throughout the region to consider and pursue a companion or supplemental career in nursing education. As part of this grant work, a mathematical model known as the NEONI Forecast will be completed in 2011 to be able to better predict the supply and demand for the future nursing workforce throughout the northeast Ohio region. This dynamic tool promises to more precisely pinpoint gaps in supply and demand well in advance of occurrence, thus enabling NEONI and nursing leaders opportunity to address them.
In 2009, Lisa became involved with the Hospital Quality Network (HQN), a grant project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in conjunction with Better Health Greater Cleveland. HQN, an ongoing RWJ program administered by the MetroHealth System, works with 12 hospitals to reduce hospital readmissions for patients admitted with heart failure, diabetes and/or hypertension.
An experienced public speaker, Lisa has been asked to speak at countless regional conferences and often speaks on topics related to nursing excellence at NEONI events for the regional nursing profession.
Lisa holds professional membership in Sigma Theta Tau International, AONE, OONE and GCONE. She serves as on the Nursing Program Advisory Committee for Notre Dame College and is the current Treasurer for GCONE. She has a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Villa Maria College and a master’s degree in nursing from The University of Akron. She has over 30 years of nursing and healthcare administration experience working in acute care, public health and correctional/inmate healthcare.
Lisa lives in Lakewood, Ohio, with her husband and their young son.
Lisa’s areas of expertise include:
- Nursing and Healthcare Workforce
- Healthcare Workforce Supply and Demand
- Hospital Emergency and Bioterrorism Preparedness Planning
- Grant writing for Healthcare Projects
- Public Speaking