Sharon Rateike

Sharon Rateike, MS, CPHRM, CPHQ, FASHRM currently serves as a senior patient safety, risk, and quality advisor and consultant with ECRI where she provides clinical risk management education, resources, and 1:1 support to community health centers and clients across all healthcare sectors.

She has over 20 years of experience working in the healthcare setting. Sharon has her undergraduate degree in Exercise Science and her graduate degree in Occupational, Environmental, Health and Safety with a focus on workplace ergonomics for the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater. Prior to her work at ECRI, she was the risk manager overseeing three hospitals and affiliated clinics in Wisconsin and Illinois.

During this time, she helped to significantly improve overall event reporting, with a focus on near miss, OB, and workplace violence reporting. Sharon is a current member serving on Rock County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) where she is the current Education Committee Chair, a TeamSTEPPS Master trainer, a member of ASHRM, NAHQ, IHI, and WSHRM. Sharon is a board member of the Wisconsin Society for Healthcare Risk Management (WSHRM) and is currently serving her second six-year term.

Previously, she has served as the president for her state chapter and is again serving as the president-elect for the organization. She has served on ASHRM’s Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW) and on ASHRM’s Educational Scholarship Review Committee. Sharon is a contributing author to the 2010 Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Toolkit and has presented nationally on a debriefing tool she created while a healthcare risk manager for her hospital’s OB departments using the TeamSTEPPS model, Just Culture, and a Relationship-Based Care approach.

She has presented locally on a variety of health and wellness topics, with several state organizations on foundational risk management, and through virtual conferences and training webinars on topics that support creating a successful and sustainable risk management program.