Michele Holley

Her Story

Michele graduated with her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University in 2006 and her Masters in Health-System Pharmacy Administration degree from The Ohio State University in 2008. She completed a PGY1 MHA residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

Michele works at Mount Carmel Health System, Columbus Ohio. As a Medication Safety Officer, Michele supports student rotations and a longitudinal medication safety PGY1 residency rotation across multiple sites.

Facility

Mount Carmel Health System is a multi-hospital system in Columbus, Ohio, and is part of Trinity Health. Trinity Health is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 92 hospitals, 18 clinically integrated networks, 13 PACE centers and 100 continuing care locations. It employs 123,000 colleagues including 6,800 physicians and clinicians.

Recent Significant Projects

Michele is a co-chair for the new Trinity Health Medication Safety Expert Panel with pharmacy, nursing, provider, and information services representation from across the country. The panel will provide a medication safety focus on future decisions for the organization including operational, clinical, and electronic medical record changes. She is currently focused on neonatal medication safety initiatives and perioperative medication safety. She recently led projects for the organization including an optimized drug library for the IV smart pumps, new IV syringe pumps and library across all sites, and an updated medication safety dashboard to continue to identify opportunities for improvement with barcode utilization and dispense metrics.

Current Involvement in ASHP

Michele is in her second year as a member of the Section Advisory Group on Medication Safety within the Section of Inpatient Care Practitioners.

Why did you become involved in ASHP? 

ASHP has a multitude of resources available for practicing pharmacists to review and learn from one another. ASHP Connect, AJHP articles, and the ASHP website are filled with information that health-systems pharmacists need to stay connected and informed.

Advice for Someone New to Specialty Area

If you have a passion to pursue a medication safety career pathway, just do it! Don't be discouraged by thinking that you need to have special training in safety to get started. Educate yourself, use your ASHP resources, and network as much as possible to learn from others. 

How would you explain the value of ASHP to a friend or colleague?

ASHP is an invaluable source of information, education, and advocacy for the pharmacy profession - both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

What is the value of ASHP for the profession?

ASHP leaders and members work diligently to promote the profession of pharmacy as an integral part of quality, safe, and accessible healthcare.