Join author Jean Moody-Williams for a book signing in honor of National Family Caregivers Month. Jean will discuss and sign "Transitions, Trust & Triumph: A Daily Devotional for Caregivers", a must have book for anyone that is caring for a loved one or knows someone that is caring for a loved one and could use a little encouragement.Â
About the Author
Jean D. Moody-Williams is an author, national health-care expert, and ordained deacon of Christian ministry. She has authored numerous inspirational and instructional resource materials as well as peer-reviewed articles for the healthcare industry. Her latest publication, Transitions, Trust and Triumph: A Daily Devotional for Caregivers reflects on her journey of becoming the primary caregiver to the woman who once cared for her. Transitions, Trust and Triumph is an inspirational book of daily devotions in which Moody-Williams chronicles her experiences into daily words of encouragement and valuable information on support and resources available for other caregivers and those that support caregivers.
Jean has also devoted over twenty years of service in leadership presiding over health care policies, quality improvement efforts in healthcare, and patient-centered care. She is currently in the Senior Executive Service Corp servicing as the Director of Quality Improvement for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is responsible for working to improve the healthcare of more than 50 million Medicare Beneficiaries. In this position she works to ensure patient safety and the reduction of harm across all settings of care. She provides resources to patients, families and caregivers to support decisions about rehabilitation and long term care facilities, home health agencies, clinical practices and hospitals.
Prior to serving as the QIG Director, she served as the Director of the Medicaid Healthcare Quality Program to support care for women, infants and children. She has held several management and health policy positions.
Her work with caregivers is a personal rather than professional journey. She travels about the country conducting workshops to share a word of encouragement and inspiration with caregivers and their families with the hope that she can support them through her own experiences while caring for her loved ones and by integrating the knowledge she has gained of the healthcare system over the years.
She is involved in many volunteer and charitable endeavors, serves as the Director of Christian Education for her church with responsibilities for more than 15 ministries, is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, the program co-chair for the Potomac Chapter of the Links, Incorporated and a Youth Advisor and Mentor. She has a loving husband and three beautiful daughters. She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Hampton University and a Masters of Public Policy and Management from the University of Maryland College Park.Â
