About HQI

The Hospital Quality Institute (HQI) provides coordination and support for improvement and harmonizes measures for patient safety and quality improvement activities for the California Hospital Association, Hospital Council — Northern & Central California, the Hospital Association of Southern California, and the Hospital Association of San Diego & Imperial Counties. The organization builds reliable and sustainable measures to gauge California’s performance and identifies opportunities for focus and innovation.

HQI oversees and coordinates the Collaborative Health Care Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO).

Hospital Quality Institute is the 2017 recipient of the American Hospital Association’s Dick Davidson Award for Leadership in Quality Improvement.

1215 K Street, Suite 800
Sacramento, CA 95814

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(916) 552-7600

Board of Directors

HQI is led by a 14-member Board of Directors.

Amy Adome, MD

Senior VP, Clinical Effectiveness, Sharp HealthCare
Dimitrios Alexiou

President/CEO, Hospital Association of San Diego & Imperial Counties, San Diego
Elaine Batchlor, MD

CEO, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
Bryan Bucklew

President/CEO, Hospital Council — Northern & Central California
Shari Chavez, RN

Division Chief Nurse Executive, HCA Far West Division
Carmela Coyle

President & Chief Executive Officer CAHHS – California Hospital Association
Loriann De Martini, Pharm.D., MPH, BCGP

Chief Executive Officer California Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Adolphe Edward, DrHA

Former CEO, El Centro Regional Medical Center
George W. Greene

President/CEO, Hospital Association of Southern California, Los Angeles
Robert Imhoff

President
Krista Lopes, MBA, CPPS

Vice President Quality and Patient Safety, Sutter Health
Barbara Pelletreau, RN

Former Senior Vice President, Patient Safety, Dignity Health
Rick Rawson

HC2 Strategies
Evelyn Schlosser, RN

Executive Director of Quality Southern California Region Providence Health System
Kevin Smothers, MD

Former Chief Medical Executive, Sutter Medical Center
Chad VanDenBerg

Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer UC San Diego Health
Anne Marie Watkins, RN

Chief Nurse Executive, Kaiser Permanente – San Diego and Zion Medical Centers

Staff

Meet the team of quality professionals who share the HQI vision for patient safety and quality, which will serve as a vehicle to harmonize efforts and accomplishments, and in so doing, lead the nation in high quality, safe and reliable health care, resulting in greater value and better health.