Stephen Grossbart, Ph.D.
Vice President, Quality Management
Catholic Healthcare Partners
615 Elsinore Pl
513.639.2784
513.639.2762 fax
Stephen R. Grossbart, PhD is vice president Quality Management, Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, OH. Catholic Healthcare Partners is organized into 9 regional service areas in five states and includes 29 acute care hospitals, 14 long-term care facilities, housing sites for the elderly, home health agencies, hospice programs, outreach services, medical groups, wellness centers and other organizations that operate diversified healthcare activities. With 23 acute care and critical access hospitals in Ohio, Catholic Healthcare Partners is the largest Medicare and Medicaid provider of hospital care in the state.
Dr. Grossbart’s team focuses on developing and leading Catholic Healthcare Partners’ system-wide efforts for clinical quality, patient safety, process redesign, performance measurement, nursing excellence, chronic & palliative care, and home care services. In this role, Dr. Grossbart provides leadership for the organization’s system-wide quality and patient safety committees of management and of the Catholic Healthcare Partners’ Board of Trustees. His team also provides strategic and educational support to each of Catholic Healthcare Partners’ regional health systems. In addition, Dr. Grossbart represents Catholic Healthcare Partners’ to the National Quality Forum and other national quality-focused organizations.
His published work has appeared in Medical Care Research and Review. He frequently presents his research at professional meetings and associations in the health care industry, including the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Academy Health’s Annual Research Meeting, and the National Quality Forum. He also served on the National Quality Forum’s Hospital Measure Workshop which identified the National Quality Forum’s initial set of National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Hospital Care. He currently co-chairs the National Quality Forum’s Consensus Standards Maintenance Committee for Pulmonary Measures and sits on this organization’s Consensus Standards MaintenanceMethods Committee.
Before joining Catholic Healthcare Partners, Dr. Grossbart was director of Clinical Analytics at Premier, Inc. based in Charlotte, NC, where he directed the development of performance measures and reporting systems. He also played a significant role in designing and implementing the CMS-Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project. He has previously held positions at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, UT, where he oversaw the analytical teams that built that system’s clinical measurement systems. He is formerly a faculty member at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.
Dr. Grossbart holds a PhD in history and has health services research and advanced statistical analysis experience. He has worked in healthcare since 1996, primarily in the area of quality and process improvement analytics. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan.
July 5, 2006