Washington, DC—The National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Board
of Directors elected Jim Chase, MHA, senior advisor for the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, and Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, president of
clinical services and Chief Medical Officer for the Hospital Corporation of America as its new chair and vice chair, respectively. The
NQF Board also appointed four new at-large members representing consumers and
purchasers.
Chase is a leader in healthcare management. He is the
former president of Minnesota Community Measurement and former director of
health purchasing for government programs administered by the Minnesota
Department of Human Services. He succeeds Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, president and
CEO of America’s Essential Hospitals,
who will continue serving on the NQF Board through 2018. Perlin, who joined the
NQF Board in 2016, is a former undersecretary of health at the Veterans Health
Administration. He succeeds Chase, who served as NQF vice chair since 2016.
Chase and Perlin will lead the NQF Board through 2019.
The new NQF Board members include:
Martha “Meg” Gaines, founder and director of the
Center for Patient Partnerships.
Gaines is a national advocate for patients facing life threatening and serious
chronic illness. An ovarian cancer survivor, Gaines is a former trial attorney
who founded the Center to ensure patients receive the care they need.
Carolyn Pare, is president and CEO of the Minnesota Health Action Group, a
coalition of more than 50 public and private employers dedicated to healthcare
market reform. A former director of human resources for the Target Corporation,
Pare most recently served NQF as co-chair of the Consensus Standards Approval Committee.
Adam Thompson, the regional partner director of
the South
Jersey Local Performance Site of the Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and
Training Center. Thompson is a quality management coach for the National
Quality Center, focusing on patient involvement and engagement. He currently
serves on NQF Primary Care and Chronic Illness Standing Committee and was a
member of NQF’s Expert Panel on Measuring Affordable Care for Consumers and the
NQF 2012 Infectious Disease Committee. Thompson is a member of the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Technical Expert Panel for measures of
patient safety and care coordination.
Knitasha Washington, DHA, MHA, FACHE, is a
patient advocate and performance improvement expert who serves as the executive
director of Consumers Advancing Patient
Safety, a nonprofit organization that fosters consumers’ pursuit of safe,
compassionate, and just healthcare. Washington is nationally recognized for her
work in health equity and patient safety.
NQF’s newly
elected Board members will serve three-year terms ending in 2020.
In addition,
William A. Conway, MD, will serve a one-year term on NQF’s Board as the current
chair of the NQF Consensus
Standards Approval Committee. Conway is executive vice president, Henry
Ford Health System, and chief executive officer, Henry Ford Medical Group.
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