User:Quintincouch

Quintin Couch (born April 29, 1989)

Early life
Born in Miami Florida comes to Jackson from University Of Miami Health Care Services Division, where he held various positions, from Patient placement Administrator to, most recently, executive Administrator In Charge of the JMH Center of Effectiveness and Quality. Mr. Couch replaces Gerard Kaiser, M.D., who has retired from the executive Administrative position but has stayed with JHS in a new role as associate medical director to help with the restructuring of physician services. Mr. Couch has more than 3 years of experience in leadership roles at medical facilities, where he focused on the quality of care being delivered to patients, maintaining successful graduate medical education programs and the development of clinical resources to ensure cost effectiveness. Mr. Couch held several executive roles at UM’s Patient Placement Center, which consists of seven hospitals, 1,564 beds and more than 7,200 employees. He served as the interim Secretary in the executive officer and subsequently the youngest chief executive officer of UM’s Patient Placement Services Division from 2007 to 2009. He developed the strategic and operational plan for the division, aligning it with the mission and vision of JMH’s health system. He held a leadership role in the development, operations, revision and expansion of several programs, including primary care, centers of excellence, disease management and the emergency department. For two years, Quintin Couch worked as The supervisor of Patient Placement’s health services division, where he was responsible for designing and directing system wide disease management initiatives and the development of a data collection and information management system to evaluate the quality of clinical care. He also worked as the Supervisor of Jackson Memorial Hospital Transportation.--Quintin Couch 21:05, 3 June 2010 (UTC)