Anastasia Vasilevski

Results-driven Senior Management Engineer with experience in healthcare performance improvement, quality strategy, and multidisciplinary program leadership. Leads highly visible initiatives requiring executive stakeholder alignment, organizational change management, governance development, and cross-department collaboration. Known for building trusted relationships across all levels of the organization, facilitating complex decisions, developing innovative frameworks and operating models, and driving sustainable improvements in patient outcomes and operational performance.

Proven ability to mentor teams, navigate ambiguity, and translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

Senior Management Engineer, Performance Excellence & Quality - Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit, Michigan

(2025-06)

Lead a portfolio of complex, multidisciplinary improvement initiatives spanning mortality review, emergency department optimization, controlled substance stewardship, cardioversion, and CUSP.

• Designed and piloted a standardized multidisciplinary mortality review framework, tiered review tools, reviewer education, escalation pathways, and an electronic tracking dashboard.
• Established the CMS 30-Day Mortality Review Committee and standardized review workflow across Clinical Quality, physician leadership, coding, and regulatory reporting.
• Created an urgent cardioversion workflow and accompanying guideline to improve patient safety in GPU settings and streamline multidisciplinary roles and responsibilities.
• Supported ED redesign and optimization work, including Pull-to-Full implementation, internal-waiting-room optimization, behavioral health patient flow, and data standardization.
• Facilitated executive taskforces and workgroups for controlled substance stewardship, defining governance, workstreams, role clarity, deliverables, and escalation pathways across clinical, pharmacy, nursing, compliance, and operational leaders.
• Completed Henry Ford Production System Lean Silver training and applied Lean, PDCA, value-stream mapping, process mapping, root-cause analysis, and rapid-cycle learning to operational and clinical improvement work.

Registered Nurse, Surgical Intensive Care Unit - Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit, Michigan

(2015-03 - 2025-06)

Delivered high-acuity critical care across trauma, transplant, vascular, neurologic, cardiothoracic, surgical, and medical populations while coordinating care with multidisciplinary teams and responding to complex clinical deterioration.

• Served as pod coordinator, preceptor, mentor, and two-term Unit Governance Council chair, supporting staff assignment, escalation, education, shared governance, and unit-based improvement.
• Co-developed a monthly virtual journal club with continuing education credit and served as co-principal investigator for research evaluating its impact on nursing research knowledge; presented findings at the 2023 Henry Ford Nursing Research Conference and the 2025 Magnet visit.
• Served as co-principal investigator for a hospital-wide study evaluating an oral hygiene bundle and its impact on hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Registered Nurse, Medical & Surgical Practice Unit - Windsor Regional Hospital - Windsor, Ontario

(2013-06 - 2015-12)

Provided pre- and postoperative nursing care for vascular, thoracic, abdominal, and orthopedic patients, coordinating individualized plans of care, monitoring changes, and communicating outcomes across the care team.

Master of Science in Nursing - Nursing - Walden University (2024-09)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing - Nursing - University of Windsor (2013-06)

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology - Psychology - University of Windsor (2008-06)