Clinical Procedure Manual Review Board

The MedBridge Clinical Procedure Manual Review Board ensures the development and maintenance of up-to-date and evidence-based clinical procedures. The review board is composed of leading nurse experts in the field: Danielle Pierotti, RN, PhD, CENP, and Margherita Labson, RN, BSN, MSHSA. The review board is involved in selecting the scope of procedures developed, approving subject matter experts, and reviewing all clinical procedures.

Margherita Labson

Margherita Labson, RN, BSN, MSHSA, spent most of her career of 40+ years working to advance safe, quality home care, including home-based primary medicine, home care, skilled home health/infusion, and palliative and hospice care. During her 25 years at The Joint Commission as executive director of home care, she led the development and launch of the first certification for home-based palliative care providers and the first award recognizing franchisors devoted to promoting quality home care services. She left to continue her postgraduate studies and now works with CHAP as a strategic advisor and with other providers and associations to ensure compliance and to promote the advancement of safe, high-quality palliative care, hospice care, and home health care. She is an experienced educator, is a published author, is an experienced bereavement facilitator, and is currently completing work in spiritual direction. When not empaneled on committee as subject matter expert, she can be found working with groups to facilitate effective interdisciplinary operational performance and to coach leadership development, strategic planning, and bereavement and spiritual counseling.

Danielle Pierotti

Danielle Pierotti, RN, PhD, CENP, is a nurse leader, author, researcher, speaker, advocate, and educator. She is an expert in nursing leadership and healthcare quality. She is dedicated to the continuous advancement of individual health and wellness through the ongoing evolution of the science and practice of nursing. By actively translating research into practice and researching topics in practice, she strives to weave theory and practice into everyday actions.

Dr. Pierotti has been developing her practice for more than three decades, in acute, ambulatory, and home-based settings. She has represented and advocated for nurses and patient care directly with elected officials, federal and state policy agencies, and accrediting bodies. She has contributed to and led the development of numerous standards-of-care documents, national quality measures, and economic impact studies. She has served on committees with CMS, the National Quality Forum, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and has served as a reviewer to the MedPAC Report to Congress on Medicare utilization.

As the director for undergraduate nursing at Idaho State University, Dr. Pierotti is focused on the dual needs of Idahoans as patients and future nurses. She translates her commitment to person-centered care into student-centered education, leading innovation in public nursing education to increase access and success for everyone who wants to be a nurse in all the ways and places nurses can serve.