Preparing Your Organization for

MEDICARE SPECIAL "CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION" SURVEYS

(INCLUDING THE PATIENT RIGHTS—RESTRAINT AND SECLUSION—STANDARDS)

BIOGRAPHIES OF FACULTY

Janice Graham, RNC, MS.

Janice is a psychiatric nurse who works for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Central Office. She is the nurse consultant for the administration of the Psychiatric Hospitals program. She obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University. Janice has had 15 years experience as a psychiatric nurse consultant/surveyor to this program prior to beginning her current role at CMS. Her other work experiences include inpatient, outpatient, home health and community mental health programs.

Shirley Eldridge

Shirley has worked for the federal government for 26 years, 23 of them for CMS. She has been the project officer, managing the contract for psychiatric hospital surveys for approximately 11 years. Along with being the project officer, she is responsible for providing surveyor training, writing, interpreting survey procedures and guidelines, and working with the regional office staff responsible for the Medicare psychiatric program. Shirley is currently in the Center for Medicaid and State Operations in CMS’ Central Office.

Amber Wolfe

Amber came to CMS in June 2000. Previously, she spent three years working as a staff nurse in the cardiac surgery ICU at the University of Maryland Medical System, during which time she earned a Master’s of Science in Nursing and Health Policy from the University of Maryland. Amber is currently in the Division of Acute Care Services within the Center for Medicaid and State Operations at CMS Central Office. Her responsibilities include working with the hospital program, hospital accreditation, and hospital surveyor training.

Mary Frances Colvin

Mary Frances Colvin has a BS in Nursing from Villa Maria College in Erie, Pennsylvania. She has worked in many areas of nursing, most notably in acute care, home health and hospice, and a private psychiatric hospital. Her Federal career includes working with the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health and her current position as nurse consultant with CMS. Mary Frances is a regional office representative from Region IX, based in San Francisco and covering Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada.

Barbara Bergmann, M.D.

Barbara Bergmann, M.D., is a Board Certified psychiatrist with many years experience in both inpatient and outpatient practice, in both private and public settings. Inpatient experience has included voluntary and involuntary care, as well as administrative roles. Dr. Bergmann developed the inpatient program at the former U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Baltimore and at the U.S. Army Hospital, Bad Canstatt, Germany. She was the Associate Director of the inpatient Substance Abuse Unit at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, as well as a faculty member of the School of Medicine. Currently Dr. Bergmann is the psychiatric consultant on a grant funded by the State of Oregon to provide cost effective psychotropic medications to a sample Medicaid population. Dr. Bergmann has been a psychiatrist surveyor for CMS (formerly HCFA) for the past 18 years, and in addition has been a consultant on various CMS panels in the areas of nursing home and psychiatric hospital treatment regulations, guidelines and surveyor performance. She has been a trainer for CMS at both the psychiatric Basic and Advanced surveyor levels for the past ten years.

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