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You are now a member of the Healthcare Division.

Welcome to the Healthcare Division Community!  We are a community of ASQ members that include providers of healthcare and services, supporters of the providers, and others allied to the field. Our purpose is to offer and disseminate information relating to applications, research, innovations in quality theory and practice in healthcare.


Our myASQ community space is designed to give our members centralized access to content within our Healthcare Body of Knowledge (by searching under Resources), as well as the ability to connect and interact with other community members. Our members  come from all kinds of industries and are located in many countries around the world.

As a new member of our community, we encourage you to check out our upcoming events and start interacting with other members through our discussion board. We also encourage you to take a few minutes and check your notification settings so that you don't miss out on any of our great content (don’t forget to save your selection!).


The Healthcare Division of ASQ strives to engage stakeholders at all levels in improving the efficiency and efficacy of a global healthcare system utilizing a customer focused approach encouraging research, innovation, and the formation to advance knowledge of healthcare quality.

Our Mission:
We promote application of quality concepts and tools among healthcare division's members, their organizations and the global community for the advancement of excellence in patient-centered and cost-effective healthcare services.​
Our Vision:
ASQ HCD and its partners will add value to members and the global healthcare communities by providing the best resources in healthcare quality.​

The Healthcare Leadership Team is here to serve you and we hope to see you around the communi
ty! 

News

14 Microcapsules at the 2023 WCQI Community Spotlight The 14 Microcapsules: Teaching Quality Tools in Quick and Easy Steps Using Healthcare Application-Based Approach will be presented by Graciela Perez, Grace Duffy, and Rowena Sano as a Community Spotlight at the 2023 WCQI in Philadelphia, on Monday, May 8, 2023, 11:55 AM - 12:10 PM. The 15-minute ... more
Posted by George Krempel on Healthcare Division Apr 22, 2023 10:11 AM CDT
Please don't forget to register for the following webinars, organized jointly with the Quality Management Division (QMD) and Statistics Division. Attached are the updated flyers from the earlier e-blast. April 11: Our speaker, Dr. Noble, is the current chair of our HQIC. His talk was re-scheduled from March. Please use the link from the attached ... more
Posted by George Krempel on Healthcare Division Apr 4, 2023 10:00 AM CDT
For our members who missed the presentation by Katie Castree Benyo Turning Soft/“Light Green” Savings into Hard/“Dark Green” Dollars: The Unspoken Need for Labor Optimization on January 18, 2023 . Katie was nice enough to share her presentation slides . See attached In addition here is a recording of the presentation - Turning soft Light Green Video ... more
Posted by George Krempel on Healthcare Division Mar 8, 2023 10:20 AM CST

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Susan Peiffer
Hello fellow Healthcare Division members and interested persons. As some health care facilities start resuming ...
Susan Peiffer Jun '20
Great topic Sue!
As with many hospitals – we are also bringing back the elective surgeries – with preop COVID ...
Steven Schuelka
Twenty years ago when I worked at a hospital, one of the questions that was asked of inpatients upon their discharge ...
Steven Schuelka Jan '23
Rowena Chona Sano
Dear Fellow HCD Members, Welcome to 2022! Excited to be your Chair for this term! Together with the HCD leadership ...
Susan Peiffer
Welcome to the Healthcare Community on myASQ! As you sign up, please tell us a little about yourself - what you do ...
Susan Peiffer Apr '20
Hi all, my name is Rowena aka Chona. Glad to be part of the Health Care Division. I work as a director for performance ...
I’ve been an ASQ member since 1984, and a Fellow since 2004. I joined the ASQ Healthcare Division around 2006. I have ...
I am Grace Duffy. I co-chair the joint QMD/HCD Healthcare and Quality Improvement committee with Pierce Story. ...
Hi all,

My name is Debbie Meeks and the current Healthcare Division Chair. I am a Senior member of ASQ and have held ...
Hello! My name is Jessica Tracy and I am a Senior Quality Analyst at a clinical genetics laboratory based in ...
I am Luigi Sille, Quality Manager of the Curaçao Red Cross Blood Bank Foundation. I'm from Curaçao.  
Working in ...
I am an ASQ Fellow, past Chair of the ASQ Board of Directors, Past Chair of the Healthcare Division, Chair of the ...
Amazing how much time COVID care, planning, and all of the reporting takes, isn't it? Thanks for sharing a little ...
Thanks for sharing a little about you, Dan! I have known you all this time and did not know you worked at IBM first.
Thanks for sharing how you serve the HCD and a little about yourself! Great work from those committees.
Glenn Findling
Team, I have an opening for an Sr. OpEx Specialist position with ECU Health in Greenville. If interested, here is ...
Glenn Findling Nov '22
Deborah Meeks
Thank you to all those that attending our first ever Town Hall meeting. More information about the meeting will be ...
Deborah Meeks Oct '21
Luigi Sille
Gossip in the WORKPLACE; It will DESTROY your organization.mp4
Luigi Sille Sep '22
Deborah Meeks
You won't find the word "Systemness" in the dictionary but it's been around for a couple of years...just google it! ...
Deborah Meeks Feb '21
Luigi Sille
There is an underperforming colleague in the TEAM.mp4
Luigi Sille Aug '22
Glenn Findling
Hello Community, I am looking for a new book to listen to on Audible. What are the must "read" books for Healthcare ...
Glenn Findling Oct '20
Hi Rob,

That is a great question...I hope we get some responses because I'd be interested also.

I always have time to ...
Hi Rob, 

Here are a few that I've read that are applicable to healthcare/training: 
  • The Checklist Manifesto ...
Thanks Anne! I just checked and these all have an audio option and they look like great books!

Debbie

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The Healthcare Division of ASQ strives to engage stakeholders at all levels in improving the efficiency and efficacy of a global healthcare system utilizing a customer focused approach encouraging research, innovation, and the formation to advance knowledge of healthcare quality.
HCD Leadership (2023):
Chair - Rowena Chona Sano
Chair Elect - April Schmidt
Secretary - Patrice Griffith
Treasurer - Debbie Meeks
Events Chair - Paige Reno
Examining Chair - Marianne DiPierro
Membership Chair - Ellen Martin
VoC Chair - Fayzee Ahmed
Newsletter Chair - Mahmoud Radwan
Scholarship / Awards Chair - Danny Duhan
Website Chair - George Krempel
Program/Program Chair - Umesh Babariya
Education/Training Chair - Graciela Perez
Recertification Chair - RK Iyer
HQIC Co-Chairs - Michael Noble
Marketing Chair - George El-Ferzli
Immediate Past Chair - Debbie Meeks
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