Stephanie Calcasola, MSN, RN-BC, CPHQ
Ms. Calcasola serves as the Vice President of Quality and Safety for Hartford Healthcare an integrated healthcare system (4.0 billion revenue; > 30K employees) in Connecticut. Hartford Healthcare includes two tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, the state’s most extensive behavioral health network, a large multispecialty physician group, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network and an accountable care organization. In her current role, Ms. Calcasola leads quality and safety for the integrated health system. She is a nationally recognized leader and consultant in healthcare quality and patient safety. Ms. Calcasola speaks nationally on issues of healthcare quality, and is published in peer reviewed journals. Prior to her role at Hartford, Ms. Calcasola was Senior Director for Quality at Baystate Health in Massachusetts where she was instrumental in helping Baystate become a national leader in quality improvement. She has held a variety of positions over the last twenty-five years including cardiac staff nurse, educator, nurse manager, and clinical nurse specialist.
Ms. Calcasola received her BSN in nursing from Southern CT State University, New Haven, CT and her Masters of Science in Nursing at Yale University, School of Nursing, New Haven, CT. She is trained as an improvement advisor from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement.