Liana Orsolini-Hain, Ph.D., R.N., ANEF, FAAN
Fellowship Year(s): 2011-2012
Profession: Administrator;Nurse
Specialty: Nursing, Preventative Medicine
Fellowship Details:
Faculty
City College of San Francisco
HHS Office of the Secretary
California
At time of Fellowship
Liana Orsolini-Hain served on the faculty of City College of San Francisco and practiced at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Initiative on the Future of Nursing:Leading Change, Advancing Health, which produced recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing. Orsolini-Hain served on the advisory board for the California Institute for Nursing & Health Care, where she co-chaired the Committee on Nursing Collaborative Education Models for California’s white paper on nursing education redesign.
Orsolini-Hain’s research and scholarly work examines factors that influence educational progression of associate-degree nurses. She is published on a variety of topics, including promoting education consortiums to streamline nursing education and further encourage nurses to earn a higher degree; examining the impending gap in clinical nursing expertise; and reframing community college nursing education. In addition to having served on several nursing organization committees including the Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Orsolini-Hain is a member of the National Black Nurses Association as well as the National Association of Hispanic Nurses.
Orsolini-Hain received a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received a B.S.N. from San Jose State University as well as an M.S. in critical care and trauma nursing from UCSF.
Current Info:
President
Orsolini and Associates
Since Fellowship:
Dr. Orsolini is an experienced executive leader who is passionate about keeping populations healthy across the care continuum, integrating population health across pre, acute, and post acute care to include incarcerated congregate settings. In the incarcerated congregate settings she has led evidence-based care in preventing, treating and immunizing for COVID-19, which
resulted in minimum mortality and morbidity. For those requiring illness care, she has proven her commitment to high reliable, safe and patient/family centric care at lower costs based on mission driven metrics. She has served as a multi-state health system’s Mortality Coordinator while serving as an executive sponsor for HPI implementation.
Her work leading interprofessional teams to reduce serious safety events and preventable deaths based on HPI and mortality data resulted in top peer mortality performance. She drove Evidence based standardization clinical practice for use of BiPAP which resulted in a 400% improvement in appropriate utilization. She led standardization of fall and pressure injury prevention policy leading to system level pressure injury drop to at or below the Magnet mean, used data-based storytelling to drive sepsis mortality to near top decile performance, optimized use of advanced practice clinicians and led a yearly voluntary 97% flu vaccination rate for over 24,000 employees. She also helped design and launch a multi state Annual Wellness Initiative resulting in 71% Medicare beneficiaries with completed personal prevention plans, leading to over 40% higher pneumococcal vaccination, and 30% higher colon and breast cancer screening.
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