Nurse Project Manager, Aging Initiatives
Maureen Saxon-Gioia is a nurse project manager for aging initiatives for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF). In this role she works on the Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home Initiative (a pilot project in three regions of Pennsylvania to demonstrate how enhanced partnerships between academic nursing schools and skilled nursing facilities can improve quality outcomes and address workforce challenges) and the new Statewide Long Term Care Learning Network for Nursing Facilities supporting training and education related to improving healthcare quality, patient safety, and workforce development. With a career that spans many years as a point-of-care nurse in both neuro intensive care and high-risk labor and delivery in an academic medical center, she is also a member the JHF WHAMglobal team promoting maternal health equity and outcomes. She worked at JHF from 2007 to 2014, where she completed the Nurse Navigator Champions Program and was a trainer and coach in Perfecting Patient Care and Quality Improvement with JHF. Saxon-Gioia returned to JHF in 2021 from the post-acute care setting in home health services, bringing with her experience in leading compliance and quality improvement activities to promote value-based care and professional nursing development. She earned her bachelor’s in nursing from Pennsylvania State University and her master’s in health services administration from Robert Morris University.