News from Cambridge Health Alliance
July 20, 2010
Cambridge Health Alliance Appoints Chief Medical
Officer
Cambridge, MA…Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a Harvard-affiliated
public healthcare system that serves Cambridge, Somerville, and
Boston's metro-north region, has named Gerald Steinberg, MD, as
its Chief Medical Officer.
Dr. Steinberg joined CHA in 2005 as Chief Medical Quality Officer
and Senior Medical Director. He has led many noteworthy performance
improvement initiatives that have resulted in better care for patients
with high-risk illness such as pneumonia, heart failure, and myocardial
infarction, placing CHA's aggregate quality measures at or near
the top quartile for safety net hospitals across the country.
Dr. Steinberg has strengthened CHA's quality and safety measures
across all departments, implementing many clinical process advancements,
including efforts to reduce hospital-acquired infection and the
enhancement of communication and reporting of performance data to
guide continued improvement. Additionally, Dr. Steinberg provided
medical leadership during CHA's successful Joint Commission Survey
in 2008 as well as a Massachusetts Department of Public Health survey
regarding care for stroke patients.
In his new role as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steinberg will provide
physician leadership for operations and strategic planning in addition
to the oversight of medical quality at CHA. His expertise will be
critical in enhancing clinical processes and systems in order to
provide high-quality care and programs to patients, physicians,
affiliates, and payers.
"I am both humbled and energized by the support I have received,"
said Dr. Steinberg. "I look forward to working with our Department
Chiefs and leaders at all levels of our organization as CHA begins
its transformation into an accountable care organization (ACO) that
will deliver high value health care to our patients and communities.
This transformation presents tremendous opportunities as well as
many challenges, and I am confident that our staff's collective
energy, excellence, and commitment to CHA's mission will help us
succeed."
"Dr. Steinberg has worked tirelessly to advance the quality
of care at CHA and promote the necessary accountability to ensure
we are constantly improving," said CHA Chief Executive Officer
Dennis Keefe. "He possesses a great understanding of CHA and
its clinical services, and his leadership will be instrumental in
aiding CHA as it adopts a new business model and becomes an ACO."
Before coming to CHA, Dr. Steinberg was Senior Vice President and
Chief Quality Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care. Prior to that,
he served as interim Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at
the University of Massachusetts Medical School and as Chief Medical
Officer of UMass Memorial Health Care, administering medical oversight
for the development and operation of the health care system. Dr.
Steinberg was appointed the Feigenbaum Distinguished Professor of
Quality at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Dr. Steinberg is an AOA graduate of the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and received his Bachelor's Degree, Cum Laude, from
Rutgers University where he was a Henry Rutgers Scholar. He received
his orthopedic training in the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Program
after completing a Research Fellowship at Harvard.
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