Carol serves as Executive Director at Cedars-Sinai in Beverly Hills, CA and has extensive experience at the vice president level with healthcare systems in California, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Colorado. Guinane’s responsibilities have ranged from steering system-wide quality improvement initiatives and introducing/expanding orthopedic service lines to opening multimillion-dollar ambulatory surgery centers. Carol has authored or co-authored numerous books on various healthcare topics, and has published several articles in the Journal for Healthcare Quality and the American Heart Hospital Journal. Her presentations for NAHQ and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) have included topics such as healthcare quality, data analysis and process improvement.