Senior Director, Quality
Ascension Health
Melinda Mackey serves as the Senior Director of Quality and Clinical Integration for Ascension Health. Her focuses are in 4 primary areas: care coordination, standardization of care, health information technology, and leadership, as well as the roles they play in the current delivery system. She has over 29 years of quality and clinical experience including primary care, critical care, case management, nursing and operations management, data analytics, and performance improvement, and she has a passion for patient advocacy. Prior to her current role with the Ascension National Team, she was the Director of Quality for Ascension Medical Group–Indiana for 5 years. In that capacity, her focuses were ACO quality performance, reducing clinical variability, and the financial optimization of commercial and Medicare Advantage contracts for the Indiana market. She received her MSN in nursing science at Barnes–Jewish College of Nursing at Washington University.