Jana O’Hara

Jana O’Hara is a registered nurse and clinical leader with more than 15 years of experience in healthcare. She is deeply passionate about creating systems that better support healthcare workers, patients, and communities, and has dedicated her career to finding innovative ways to strengthen patient safety and care delivery.

Her professional expertise spans clinical operations, regulatory compliance (including The Joint Commission and CMS), quality and performance improvement, and patient safety science. She is highly skilled in tools such as root cause analysis, FMEA, and process improvement frameworks like PDSA/PDCA. She has also led initiatives to improve safety culture through incident management, near-miss analysis, and the AHRQ Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

In addition to her clinical leadership, [Name] is an experienced public speaker and educator, having presented at webinars, conferences, and training sessions on topics related to patient safety, compliance, and performance improvement.

Outside of her professional work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, taking neighborhood walks, watching soccer, and exploring new foods.