Minnesota Nursing Magazine Spring/Summer 2012 - School of ...

Class Notes
advancing health from innovation to impact
Albuquerque, New Mexico Chapter
University of Minnesota Alumni
- Phyllis Frederiksen, U of M alumni coordinator, Albuquerque, NM
Thirty-four University of Minnesota Alumni and
former Minnesotans gathered to hear Dean Connie
Delaney and Distinguished School of Nursing
Alumna Marie Manthey ‘BSN ‘62, MNA ‘64, present
“Advancing Health from Innovation to Impact.”
Dean Delaney and Marie reviewed the processes
being incorporated in interprofessional health
care education at the University of Minnesota. The
concept includes all aspects of these programs from
basic research in science, applied research in all
areas of health and health care, integrated delivery
and ultimately, to patient care and contributions by
patients to their care. Our speakers stressed that the
whole program would be seamlessly facilitated by
integrating education with faculty collaboration to
encourage close partnerships in treatment, leading
to a heath care system designed to reduce errors,
share information efficiently, and respectfully involve
patients’ cooperation among the many disciplines
of care providers. Fundamentally, this would require
a new mindset to learn together, working to further
enhance health care services in Minnesota and
elsewhere.
The program was hosted at the Presbyterian
Rust Medical Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico,
the patient-centered, operationally efficient,
environmentally friendly and technologically
innovative full-service, 21st-Century Hospital.
Back row, pictured left to right: Phyllis
Frederiksen, UM Alumni Coordinator,
Albuquerque; Dean Connie Delaney;
Distinguished Alumna Marie Manthey;
Laurel Mallon, director of Alumni and
Donor Relations; Dick Frederiksen.
Front row, pictured left to right:
Distinguished Alumnae Margo
Horton-Davis ’47 and Barbara Balik, ’79.
For more information about upcoming Dean’s Luncheons and other School of Nursing Alumni
events, contact Laurel Mallon, director of Alumni and Donor Relations at 612-624-2490 or
mallo001@umn.edu or go to www.nursing.umn.edu.
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