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
(916) 552-7600
HQI is led by a 14-member Board of Directors.
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Amy Adome, MD
Chief Clinical & Transformation Officer
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Dimitrios Alexiou
President & CEO, Hospital Association of San Diego & Imperial Counties
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Elaine Batchlor, MD
CEO, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
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Roy Boukidjian
System Vice President, Infection Prevention/Interim System Patient Safety Officer, CommonSpirit
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Bryan Bucklew
President & CEO, Hospital Council – Northern & Central California
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Carmela Coyle
President & CEO, California Hospital Association
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Loriann De Martini, Pharm.D., MPH, BCGP
Chief Executive Officer California Society of Health-System Pharmacists
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Martin Entwistle
Associate Chief Medical Officer VP Population Health and Ancillary Services, Marshall Medical Center
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George W. Greene
President & CEO, Hospital Association of Southern California
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Robert Imhoff
President, Hospital Quality Institute
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Krista Lopes, MBA, CPPS
Vice President Quality and Patient Safety, Sutter Health
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Julie Ostrom
Chief Nursing Executive Officer, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
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Barbara Pelletreau, RN
Former Senior Vice President, Patient Safety, Dignity Health
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Chad VanDenBerg
Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer UC San Diego Health
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Anne Marie Watkins, RN
Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Executive/ Assistant Dean of Nursing UCI Health
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.
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Asma Ahmad
Data Systems Support Coordinator
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Candice Cam
Senior Data Analyst
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Trisha Cervellin
Administrative Assistant
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Vivian Eusebio, RN, PHN, MBA
Patient Safety Clinical Advisor
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Emma Goldberg
Data Analyst
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Robert Imhoff
President, Hospital Quality Institute
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Kamali Jones
Safety & Reliability Clinical Advisor
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Boris Kalanj, MSW
Director of Programs
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Aaron Koll
Data Scientist
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Carlix Lung
Programmer Analyst
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Scott Masten, PhD
Vice President, Measurement Science and Data Analytics
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Tim Rehwald
Principal Engineer