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Joshua Clark
Biography
Josh Clark is the Senior Vice President of Quality and Safety Operations for Jefferson Health, an 18-hospital system covering the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. Josh led the implementation of the OnPoint Program for Advancing Care Excellence which included design and deployment of an industry-leading serious safety event review program, enterprise escalating huddles, an organizational learning and triage platform and a state-of-the-art enterprise analytics platform.

Josh has participated in National Quality Forum Action Teams for both Opioid Safety and Medication Safety and is a Faculty Improvement Advisor for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement.

Josh obtained his RN and Master of Healthcare Administration degrees from Jefferson College of Health Sciences. After ten years of critical care nursing at academic medical centers in Virginia and New York City, Josh transitioned his focus to the science of healthcare delivery. He helped lead a quality and safety transformation at Virginia’s second largest health system which included one of the only Applied Human Factors departments in the country. His work to integrate translational Human Factors within clinical operations was recognized by the National Quality Forum, Next Generation Innovator Award. His work to design and deploy the OnPoint Program was recognized by ECRI, 2021 Safety Excellence Award.