As chief safety and quality officer, Dr. Hyman leads teams in the Center for Healthcare Quality and Analytics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and partners with clinical and operational teams throughout the organization to continuously evaluate and improve care results. Under his leadership, CHOP has expanded and strengthened its Breakthrough to Zero safety program and has reduced the frequency of a range of common patient and staff harm events by 10% to greater than 40% over the past three years. The center is helping lead new work to measure and improve clinical outcomes for acute and chronic childhood conditions and has developed 180 clinical pathways that define best practices for pediatric conditions management. They are expanding work on diagnostic excellence and addressing the impacts of health disparities in partnership with CHOP’s Center for Health Equity, which Dr. Hyman also supports. Dr. Hyman also has roles supporting national efforts in pediatric quality and patient safety, including his role on the clinical steering team of Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety.
