Nancy Foster
Vice President for Quality and Patient Safety, AHA
American Hospital Association
155 North Wacker Drive, Suite 400
Chicago,
IL
USA
60606
Biographical Sketch: Nancy Foster is the Vice President for Quality ad Patient Safety Policy at the American Hospital Association. In this role, she is the AHA’s point person for the Hospital Quality Alliance, which is a public-private effort to provide information to consumers on the quality of care in American hospitals. Nancy is the AHA’s representative to the National Quality Forum, serves as a member of the National Heart Attack Coordinating Council and the Healthcare Infection Control and Prevention Advisory Committee of HHS. She provides advice to hospitals and public policy makers on opportunities to improve patient safety and quality.
Prior to joining the AHA, Nancy was the Coordinator for Quality Activities at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In this role, she was the principal staff person for the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force, which brought Federal agencies with health care responsibilities together to jointly engage in projects to improve quality and safety. She also led the development of patient safety research agenda for AHRQ and managed a portfolio of quality and safety research grants in excess of $10 million.
She is a graduate of Princeton University and has completed graduate work at Chapman University and Johns Hopkins University. In 2000, she was chosen as an Excellence in Government Leadership Fellow.
Papers:
PLENARY: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (ACA): PERSPECTIVES OF THE GOVERNMENT, PHYSICIANS, HOSPITALS, PAYERS, AND PATIENTS