Dr. Pronovost is a patient safety champion, prolific researcher with over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications to his name, and a thought leader in the national and global health policy space. In his role as chief quality and clinical transformation officer at University Hospitals, he ideates and implements new protocols to enhance care quality, develops new frameworks for population health management to benefit the system’s 1 million patients, and manages the UH ACO. He developed the “Living and Leading with Love” scalable model of transformation, which has been rolled out over four years. This approach has helped reduce the annual cost of care for Medicare patients by 33% over three years, improve quality, and increase shared savings in the ACO from $4 million four years ago to $50 million in 2023 and $175 million over the last five years. Dr. Pronovost also serves as the Veale Distinguished Chair in Leadership and Clinical Transformation and leads the newly established Veale Initiative for Health Care Innovation at University Hospitals.
