St John of God Health Care has appointed Dani Meinema as Group Director of Nursing and Patient Experience. Photo: Supplied.
St John of God Health Care has appointed Dani Meinema as Group Director of Nursing and Patient Experience with responsibilities across the organisation’s 24 facilities, including hospitals, disability services and home nursing.
Ms Meinema comes into the position with Australia’s largest Catholic not-for-profit hospital group after working as the Director of Nursing and Midwifery at the Group’s Murdoch hospital where she was responsible for over 1,800 nurses and caregivers. She previously led Glengarry Private Hospital.
St John of God Health Care Group Chief Executive Officer Dr Shane Kelly said Dani’s experience and leadership would be invaluable to enhancing patient experience and nursing care provided throughout the organisation.
“Dani has deep clinical experience, and has strong senior leadership experience within private healthcare which will enable her to lead the key strategic initiatives focused on enhancing patient experience by fostering a safe, high-performing and patient-centric culture,” he said.
“She has a great understanding of the challenges and opportunities that exist in healthcare, but most importantly she has demonstrated a strong commitment to the nursing profession, to improving patient outcomes and experience, and to the Mission of St John of God Health Care.”
Ms Meinema said she was looking forward to developing strategies and plans to enhance patient experience.
“Nursing care and patient experience is more important than ever in the private healthcare sector right now,” Ms Meinema said.
“I will be looking to work with our clinicians, managers, support staff and many others to develop and implement strategies to continually improve our service quality in order to ensure that our patients highly value their care experience.
Ms Meinema said empowering nurses to develop initiatives, which enhance their care at the bedside, would also be her priority.