Gary R. Yates,
MD
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is the President of
Healthcare Performance Improvement and the Chief Medical Officer of founding
partner Sentara Healthcare. At Sentara, Dr. Yates is responsible for the
clinical effectiveness programs, physician integration efforts, and medical
management issues for its 6-hospital system and 320,000-member health plan.
A board certified family physician and fellow of the American Academy of
Family Physicians, Dr. Yates is a member of the clinical faculty at the
Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. Yates joined Sentara in 1996 and has
been responsible for developing Sentara's clinical effectiveness and patient
safety initiatives. He provided leadership for the quality and patient safety
initiatives leading to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital being recognized
as the 2004 recipient of the AHA's Quest for Quality Award and Sentara Healthcare
being recognized as the 2005 recipient of the John M. Eisenberg Award for
Patient Safety and Quality from JCAHO and the National Quality Forum.
Dr. Yates previously
served as Chairman, Department of Family and Community Medicine and Chief
Quality Officer for Maricopa Health System in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Yates
also served three years as a judge for the Arizona Governor’s Award
for Quality, as a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute
for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Quality Management Network and as co-chair
of IHI's ninth annual Nation Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care.
He currently serves as President of Virginians Improving Patient Care
and Safety (VIPCS), the statewide patient safety consortium for Virginia.
Dr. Yates was awarded the 2005 Physician Executive Award of Excellence
from Modern Physician and the American College of Physician Executives
(ACPE).
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