Dr. Kim provides leadership for more than 1,200 affiliated physicians at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center. He partners with leaders across the organization to ensure the delivery of high-quality and safe clinical care at the hospital and health system. Among many other change management initiatives, he led the improvement of clinical efficiency and throughput over the past year, resulting in a decrease of 0.7 days in average length of stay over a four-month period. Additionally, by formalizing and recruiting a sepsis manager and physician champion, compliance with early recognition and management of sepsis improved 40%. Efforts to include surgical throughout increased compliance with first case on time starts by 25% and decreased same day cancellation rate by 38%. Dr. Kim’s leadership on the system’s pain best practice team has significantly improved safe and effective opioid use at the system level, earning MemorialCare a spot on the Cal Hospital California Opioid Care Honor Roll for two consecutive years. He previously served as CMO and vice president of medical affairs at Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles, helping the team nearly double its improvement in service line quality goals and significantly increasing the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems overall ratings. At Cedars Sinai Health System, also based in Los Angeles, he championed a number of initiatives to improve clinical outcomes and clinical efficiency.
