Author Tramico Herman On 5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System

An Interview With Jake Frankel

Improve laws with significant consequences to providers who cause harm or death to patients. I witnessed providers who were found guilty of malpractice in a particular state able to continue their service in another state. It is imperative these providers are restricted from practicing medicine in all states and this needs to be appropriately tracked and flagged.

As a part of our interview series called “5 Things We Must Do To Improve the US Healthcare System”, I had the pleasure to interview Tramico Herman.

Tramico Herman (www.tramicoherman.com) is author of The Crux Of Care Management: Steps to Managed Care and Patient-Centric Service Excellence for Leaders. She began her nursing career leading medical-surgical and intensive care units, then transitioned to healthcare administration with a focus on care management. Herman advanced to leadership roles while developing strategies for processes improvements, reducing employee turnover and supporting recruitment and quality compliance with executive leaders. She holds an MBA in project management and became a consultant for various Fortune 100 health plans and providers.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into our interview, our readers would like to get to know you a bit. Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

I knew I wanted to be a nurse in the sixth grade. The motivation started at home. My younger sister has cerebral palsy and at a very young age, I had to step up and help my mom and brothers take care of her. She had a feeding tube from her nose into her stomach that funneled nutrition through a syringe to feed her, and low oxygen levels were always a risk. Her fingertips and lips became warning signs; if they started turning a purplish color, it was time to connect the nasal cannula with oxygen. We knew that was the way she would survive, and when I saw her smile and…