April Taylor, FACHE, CMQ/OE, CLSSBB, CPPS, CPHQ

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Chief Operating Officer - The Johns Hopkins Hospital

April Taylor, FACHE, CMQ/OE, CLSSBB, CPPS, CPHQ is the chief operating officer at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In this role, she provides leadership for ensuring quality and improving care through data analytics, transparency, and collaboration. Taylor also serves as core faculty in the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, in Philadelphia where she teaches healthcare quality measurement. Her previous experience includes the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Catholic Health East (now Trinity Health). Taylor is an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and a senior examiner and trainer for the Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Performance Excellence. She is also a recent recipient of the American College of Healthcare Executives service award.

Speaker Details

Speaker Type: Moderator | Virtual Live

Sessions of the Speaker

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  • Virtual Live
Quality professionals face the challenge of how to integrate AI safely, responsibly, and efficiently into their work and career development....
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Healthcare professionals are facing unprecedented challenges. Workforce shortages, rising burnout, constant change, and increasing demands for better outcomes have created...
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AI is transforming healthcare quality, but adopting it effectively means balancing the quality principles we've always known with the demands of today's...
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  • Virtual Live
Supply chain disruptions pose direct risks to quality outcomes, patient safety, and organizational stability yet quality teams are often disconnected...
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Traditional episode-based quality measurement falls short when managing chronic care patients whose outcomes unfold across multiple settings and over extended timeframes....
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  • Virtual Live
Value-based care (VBC) represents a fundamental shift in how healthcare is delivered and reimbursed, but what does it mean for quality professionals putting...
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