HCD-2024 WORKSHOP PANELIST

Kathy McDonough, MSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS

Director, Operations & Logistics and former Director of Nursing Informatics, The Valley Hospital

Kathy McDonough, MSN, RN-BC, CPHIMS is the Director, Operations & Logistics and former Director of Nursing Informatics at The Valley Hospital in Paramus, New Jersey. I have worked in Nursing Informatics since 2006, and have experience in a multi-hospital health system as well as single-hospital health system. I hold ANCC Informatics Nursing certification since 2010 and HIMSS CPHIMS certification since 2012.

In my current role, I was responsible for the coordination of move planning to a new hospital facility and the overall direction, implementation and execution of new clinical workflows. This was accomplished through the creation of multi-disciplinary teams to develop the future-state operation design in order to execute the successful relocation of care and departments into the new hospital facility which occurred on April 14, 2024. Valley’s new state-of-the-art facility has 370 single-occupancy patient rooms, an expanded emergency department and larger operating rooms. The April 14th activation involved relocation of 200+ patients, 75 BLS and SCTU ambulances, 400+ volunteers and a comprehensive staffing plan to cover the current and new hospital, all accomplished over the course of eight hour