Becker’s Names Lisbeth Votruba, AvaSure’s Chief Clinical Officer, as a Top Patient Safety Expert to Know in 2026

Representing a wide range of roles across hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies, these patient safety experts are united by their unwavering commitment to ensuring that every patient receives safe, effective care. Their work touches every corner of the care continuum, from preventable harm reduction and complex disease management to disaster preparedness.

Beyond just following policy and protocol, these leaders continuously question the status quo, engineer smarter processes, and hold their organizations to ever-higher standards.

Lisbeth Votruba, RN. Chief Clinical Officer at AvaSure (Belmont, Mich.). Ms. Votruba has significantly advanced patient safety through virtual technology at AvaSure. She has driven the company’s growth, providing safer environments for patients and achieving hundreds of millions of live monitoring hours. Ms. Votruba pioneered video monitoring for fall-risk patients and has authored several research articles on virtual care’s benefits. She created eLearning modules for clinicians and hosted numerous national webinars to promote patient safety. Her leadership at AvaSure continues to revolutionize patient safety and care delivery.

“It was almost 20 years ago that I caught the patient safety bug as an ICU nurse when our hospital participating in Peter Pronovost MD, PhD, FCCM ground-breaking CLABSI research. Watching the power of evidence-based practice dramatically improve outcomes for patients shaped the trajectory of my career and my passion for transforming care delivery.

That’s why it feels especially meaningful, all these years later, to be recognized by Becker’s Healthcare as one of the Patient Safety Experts to Know of 2026 alongside Dr. Pronovost and many other luminaries like Patricia McGaffiganJonathan Perlin, MD, PhD.

Patient safety work is never finished especially now as we are evolving with virtual care, AI and new models of delivery. We have an opportunity and a responsibility to design safer, smarter and more human-centered models of care.”

– Lisbeth Votruba

As a third-generation nurse, Lisbeth envisions revolutionizing inpatient care delivery through virtual technology. She is a pioneering nurse executive committed to continuously improving healthcare and diffusing new technologies to enhance patient and staff safety. Lisbeth is recognized for her compassionate leadership, promotion of the nursing profession, and commitment to safeguarding the dignity and quality of care for patients, families, and healthcare professionals. She published one of the first research articles on video monitoring for patient safety in 2016.

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