Are you an Infection Preventionist looking to learn more about the Healthcare Association of New York’s State Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative in 2015? Join us as we talk to Dr. Danielle Durant about her research and paper evaluation of the Collaborative. Dr. Durant provides us with an extensive background on HANES and the AUR Module of NHSN, revealing how the Collaborative’s two aims were to prepare hospitals for mandated usage reporting and develop a robust program to help them prevent MDROs.

Article: Evaluation of a Statewide Collaborative Focused on Antibiotic Usage Surveillance and Stewardship in New York State Hospitals

Author: Dr. Danielle Durant
Co-author: Claudia Guerrazzi-Young

Dr. Danielle Durant

Dr. Danielle Durant serves as Principal Research Associate for Healthcare Delivery and Policy Research at Westat, a Health Services Research firm. Previous to this role, she was Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (TAMUCC), where she taught Quality Management & Evaluation in Healthcare for the Healthcare Administration program, among other courses. While pursuing her PhD in Public Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management and Policy from Rockefeller College of SUNY Albany, Dr. Durant was employed for several years at the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) in their Quality Advocacy and Research Initiatives (QARI) division. Within QARI, she served as Project Management Coordinator for the New York State Partnership for Patients (NYSPFP) program, a $15 million contract with the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) aimed at the prevention of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and other adverse events in NYS Hospitals. Before her appointment at HANYS, Dr. Durant was a Graduate Fellow at the New York State Department of Health, working directly with the New York State Medicaid Director on Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program implementation, as well as policy liaison for implementation of the New York Medicaid Management Information System. She completed her PhD dissertation, Exploring Three Strategies for the Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection in NYS Acute Care Hospitals—Structure, Process, Outcome Model of Quality Improvement, in 2018, graduating with her PhD. Additionally, she has a BS in Finance and Economics, an MBA in Management, an MS in Engineering Management, and is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt with ASQ.