Webinar

Expanding the definition of harm

05/13/2026 15:00:00 UTC   |   60 mins

Emotional harm can significantly impact patient experience, trust, and workforce well-being. Yet as an industry, we are often blind to harm other than physical harm – and this blindness is one of the top barriers to achieving Zero Harm. To realize meaningful, lasting change, leaders must commit to ensuring both physical and emotional safety of patients and workforce across the care continuum. 

In this month’s HRLS webinar, Carole Stockmeier, SVP, Safety & Reliability Solutions at Press Ganey, Sue Teman, Principal at Press Ganey, and Kimberly Streett, Senior Director at National Quality Forum will engage in a focused discussion around expanding the definition of harm to include both physical and emotional safety, and on applying serious reportable event frameworks beyond acute care settings. 

Join the webinar to learn practical tips for understanding the impact of emotional harm and how organizations are detecting, measuring, and learning from this type of harm in Press Ganey’s High Reliability Platform. You’ll leave with a sense of how to strengthen safety systems through aligned leadership and data-driven insights. 

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What you will take away

  • Define emotional harm and explain its impact on patient experience, trust, and workforce well-being, and why it remains a critical barrier to achieving Zero Harm.  
  • Describe strategies to detect, measure, and learn from emotional harm in Press Ganey’s High Reliability Platform, including approaches to expanding safety frameworks beyond physical harm and across the care continuum.  
  • Identify leadership and system-level actions that align culture, measurement, and data-driven insights to strengthen safety systems and advance both physical and emotional safety. 

Featured speakers

Carole Stockmeier

Carole Stockmeier
SVP, Safety & Reliability Solutions
Press Ganey

Carole Stockmeier currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Safety & Reliability and Partner in Strategic Consulting at Press Ganey since September 2015. Prior to this role, Carole Stockmeier held various positions at Healthcare Performance Improvement from September 2006 to August 2015, including Partner & Chief Operating Officer and Practice Director & Senior Consultant. From June 1994 to May 2009, Carole Stockmeier worked at Sentara Healthcare, progressing through roles such as Director of Safety & Performance Excellence, Director of Clinical Operations, Director of Registration Services, Manager of Registration Services, and Administrative Resident. Carole Stockmeier holds a Master of Health Administration (MHA) from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sue Teman

Sue Teman
Principal
Press Ganey

Susan brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience leading safety, process improvement and in-situ simulation. She has worked in a variety of leadership and system improvement roles. After 10 years in clinical care and management, she moved to the improvement field with a focus on high reliability organizing, physician quality and safety, and managing organizational-level culture transformation. 

Kimberly Streett

Kimberly Streett
Director and Patient Safety Project Lead
National Quality Forum

Kimberly Streett, MSN, RN, CPHQ serves as Director and Patient Safety Project Lead at the National Quality Forum. With 30 years of nursing experience and over a decade dedicated to quality improvement, Kim has led national patient safety projects that emphasize prevention, accountability, and learning from serious harm. She oversaw NQF’s work on the Joint Commission–NQF report, Aligning Patient Safety Event Reporting: 2025 Updates to Sentinel Events and Serious Reportable Events (SRE), applying a systems-based, high-reliability approach to promote consistent and meaningful reporting of SREs. 

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