Patient Pod

“This being my first surgery, I found the information so helpful – it was good reassurance.”

-- Juanita Torres, Surgical Patient

“I loved it! It never left my walker. I know exactly where it is right now. . I put my cell phone, my pills, tissues, my wallet, my insurance card inside…. I have used it every day since leaving the hospital. I would use it again in a heartbeat.”

-- Dick Jacobs, patient, Scottsdale, AZ

“The nurses thought it was brilliant.”

-- Nurse Administrator, surgical unit, Orlando, FL

“The bed table (and everything on it) would sometimes get wheeled away, but with the Patient Pod I could always reach everything and didn't have to worry about my personal items. It’s a wonderful thing.”

-- Susan Barrett, patient, retired school teacher, RI

“The only way I would suggest the Patient Pod be improved is if we had more to give out”.

-- RN, Warwick, RI

“…one of the greatest breakthroughs of the decade in patient health…the answer to one of the most disturbing problems facing patients: hospital-acquired infections.”

-- Wayne Weiner, D. Ed., Former Senior Consultant, National Institute of Health

“OMG, what a brilliant idea, someone (probably a woman) is a genius!”

-- Lisa Bilello, patient, Merrick, New York

"The Pod is a winner for the patient from every standpoint.” -Robert J. Shapiro, Superintendent Emeritus of the Warwick, RI, School Department

“The best feature of the Pod is the message center…I simply wrote my note and placed it in the message center on the Pod. When I woke, my medication was on my bedside table!!!”

-- Lisa H, Patient, Providence, RI

Our Team

Pat Mastors

Founder and CEO
pmastors@thepatientpod.com

Pat is a hospital patient advocate, a former medical reporter, and a voice for patient engagement. She works with a range of advocacy and provider groups who believe patients and their advocates are often "the most under-utilized resource in health care".

Pat's advocacy began with the sudden hospitalization of her father in 2005, when a fall down the stairs required surgery. It was an otherwise successful surgery, but complications of an infection common in hospitals caused his death six months later. Pat lobbied successfully to pass two patient safety laws in her home state (Rhode Island), and now collaborates with patient and provider groups nationwide to advance patient safety.

For more than 20 years Pat was a television news anchor and medical reporter at several New England television stations. Her background in public speaking, her passion for patient engagement, plus her genuine empathy for the concerns of both patients and providers, make her uniquely effective at moving people toward common ground.

Pat serves as a patient/family advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “Partnership for Patients” Hospital Engagement Networks. She is the consumer representative on the HAI reporting steering committee for Rhode Island's State Health Department. She works with the Consumer's Union Safe Patient Project (a branch of Consumer Reports), and is on the Advisory Board to the Small Business Development Center at Johnson & Wales University.

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Aimee Keenan-Greene

Communications Director
akgreene@thepatientpod.com

Aimee is a journalist and communications specialist, who spent more than 16 years producing award-winning content for broadcast and other electronic media. As Senior Producer and Special Projects Coordinator for WPRI-TV 12 and WNAC-TV Fox 64 Providence/New Bedford, she spent more than a decade producing, writing, promoting, and coordinating content and graphic design for daily television newscasts, long-range features and brand-building. Aimee's connections to health and wellness issues are deep: she critiques packaged health, medical and women-driven news pieces for Ivanhoe Broadcast News. Her featured Providence Children’s Health news articles appear on the national website Examiner.com, and her food, nutrition, diet, health and general wellness news articles are featured on FoodConsumer.org.

Joe Cacciola
Director, Product Design and Customization

Wayne Blatchley
Director, Graphic Design and Customization

If you want your own Patient Pod design, colors, logos or branding, Joe and Wayne will bring it to life.
Joe Cacciola and Wayne Blatchley, co-founders of Fuzion Design Inc., have collaborated to produce leading products for dozens of national brands including Playtex, Safety 1st, Dorel Juvenile Group, CVS, Disney, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, Eddie Bauer and The First Years. They are unabashed sticklers for quality control, and take enormous pride in every product they touch.

Joe was Vice President of Research and Development at Safety 1st, a senior director at Hasbro, and is an Industrial Designers Society of America Merit Award winner. Wayne was creative director for two of the world’s largest companies in the product design industry – Hasbro and Safety 1st, where he was responsible for the package communication and design for many best-loved household brands.

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