As we observe Veterans Day this Monday, we give our heartfelt thanks to those who have honorably served our nation. Here at RQI Partners, we are proud to serve our customers at VA Medical Centers and care facilities across the country.
We also proudly employ Veterans and Active-duty Military who make a difference every day in helping save more lives from cardiac arrest. Additionally, our staff is honored to celebrate the providers in your organizations who have served in our nation’s military.
Chase Smith
Judy Miller
I was active-duty Air Force from 1992-1998 as a Cryptologic Linguist Specialist. For the first year of my enlistment, IÂ attended the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, CA for 47 weeks to learn Mandarin. During my enlistment, I used my knowledge of Mandarin to protect our miliary flights over international waters around the world.
I chose to work for RQIP because I was excited about the direct opportunity to expand the availability of high-quality CPR education to our nation’s Veterans on a national scale. I am proud to know that the skillset and knowledge we are bringing to the clinical/administrative/executive staff deepens their understanding of how high-quality CPR and high-functioning CPR programs benefit our patients and communities, alike.
Mathew Ingram
I served in the United States Navy from 2011-2018 as an Air Traffic Controller. During my service, I completed one deployment on the USS Kearsarge and was an instructor at the Air Traffic Control School in Pensacola, FL.
I chose to work for RQI Partners to continue being part of a mission bigger than myself while still having time to spend with my wife and four kids.
Adessa Goss
I was fortunate to have served my country between 2002-2012 as a Combat Medic (91W). I joined Active Duty Army at age 17 and spent the majority of my 10-year term in Iraq. I completed several 18-month deployment tours in the middle east as a front-line medic for a unit of 18 infantry and cavalry soldiers running country-wide presence patrol route missions from Tallil to Balad.
Post military enlistment, I began working as a Registered Nurse in the Trauma and Critical Care Float Pool. The wide variety of experience and teaching experience I gained from my military and nursing career led me down the clinical research and education path. While working as a Staff Development Instructor for the Float Pool and attending graduate school for my PhD in Nursing Education, I assisted with a large system-wide rollout of RQI.
RQIs impact on inpatient cardiac arrest later became my PhD research focus and led me to a meaningful career, helping to save more lives, at RQI Partners as an Impact Manager for the inpatient hospital setting. Following the completion of my PhD, I continue to thrive at RQI Partners in the emerging Commercial Healthcare space!
Robyn Perrotti
I spent 12 years in the US Army, joining right out of high school. I was an LPN, Army trained at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. I was fortunate to spend 5 of those years in Germany. The first was at a Combat Support Hospital, this was an expandable hospital with 2 ICUs, Med Surg ward as well as an OR, Pharmacy, and anything else a fully operational hospital would need. We prided ourselves on being fully functional in less than 2 hours.
After 12 years, I chose to leave the Army to spend more time with my 2 sons. I chose to work at RQI Partners because I truly believe low-dose, high-frequency saves lives.
Rob DiBiase
Rob DiBiase joined the USAF in 1997 and was off on his first assignment at Elmendorf AFB, AK where he worked in flightline operations fuels division. He cross-trained in 2000 in the medical services field and managed an ambulances services team at McGuire AFB, NJ. He also served as a medical readiness instructor for joint service operations’ Combat Casualty Care Course (C-4) and as a Simulationist, at Camp Bullis in San Antonio, TX. Rob continued his career under the Air Force as a civilian and the managed medical simulations for the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH until September ’23.
He has passions for simulation and training, improving processes and achieving organizational and team goals. He’s looking for new challenges and opportunities to make a difference. Rob decided to join RQI Partners because he believes in the mission to improve CPR skills and increase the number of lives saved.
