A top doctor at a California children's hospital has been named the new chief quality officer at the institution, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Dr. Grace Lee will oversee the quality and safety of Stanford Medicine Children's Health, which includes the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
"Her focus will also include embedding health equity into the foundation of Stanford Children's Health's clinical care and quality initiatives," says a press release.
Lee joined Stanford Medicine Children's Health in 2017 as the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Practice Innovation.
Prior to that, she worked with quality improvement, nursing, and infection control teams to address infections in neonates and children.
She also established and co-led the Value Improvement Program and Clinical Registry Program at Stanford Children's.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, Dr. Lee led and supported the work being done to ensure the safety and health of Stanford Children's Health's workforce as well as patients.
She worked alongside physician colleagues and operational leaders on a wide range of COVID-19-related issues, including the occupational health and infection control response, as well as implementation of testing, treatment, and prevention measures.
Dr. Lee is a professor of
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