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Kevin Bader, MHCDS

Kevin Bader has been a healthcare delivery operations leader for the past decade, advising senior executives across the globe. He has led teams and consulted clients to implement and sustain clinical transformation and operational improvements across military and civilian care delivery settings.

In his last role with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL), he served as a senior operations adviser and project manager, guiding teams of clinicians, analysts, and technical experts in multiple efforts to evaluate, design, and implement care delivery solutions for the Military Health System (MHS). He led a team of clinic leaders, clinicians, analysts, and engineers in evaluating 10 primary care clinics serving over 100K beneficiaries and implementing Primary Care Medical Home (PCMH) across three clinics serving 60K beneficiaries. Through improved resource utilization, the design and implementation of an acuity-based empanelment model, scheduling methodology improvements, and patient flow optimization, the market realized a 23% increase in capacity to recapture beneficiaries seeking care elsewhere.

Mr. Bader has partnered with the Navy’s executive leadership to design and implement initiatives that support the Navy’s High-Reliability Operating Model, which aims to improve safety and quality in high-risk care delivery areas for the Navy’s two million covered lives. He managed a portfolio of patient safety and quality projects for Navy Medicine with project budgets totaling over $4.5 million over a five-year span. This included developing and implementing real-time hospital-acquired infection monitoring tools at two Navy Medical Centers totaling over 500 inpatient beds, which significantly improved the prevention of healthcare-related infections. He also managed clinical and safety expert resources from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality to lead the implementation of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) at four Navy hospitals across the globe in 26 clinical areas for 500+ staff. He led a team of Johns Hopkins clinical experts and engineers in the development and execution of a Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Academy for Navy leaders, training over 200 clinical leaders across the globe in high reliability and patient safety principles, methods, and leadership. The program has sustained and is still training new cohorts of leaders to this day.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Bader managed multiple projects focused on improving the operational efficiency of Navy Medicine. In emergency departments at Navy Hospital Camp Pendleton, he led efforts to reduce waste and improve patient flow, allowing patients to see a physician 58% faster and reducing the total time the patient had to spend in the ED by 32%. In the main operating departments at Navy Hospital Camp Lejeune, he led supply chain efforts to ensure efficient purchasing practices and lower costs by streamlining the supplies needed by 6%.

Before his work with the Military Health System, Mr. Bader consulted senior leaders at multiple major health systems on operational excellence initiatives. At Massachusetts General Hospital, he led operational improvement activities in the Cardiac Surgical Services Unit, working with front-line staff to increase the utilization of operating rooms by optimizing patient flow and decreasing room turnover times. At Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, he worked with senior executives to design and implement operational processes to facilitate Executive Rounding, improve Patient Safety campaigns, and manage the compliance and audit of 53 healthcare Health Information Management policies. He also consulted across multiple industries, including manufacturing, pharmaceutical, bio-pharmaceutical, and semiconductor fabrication, utilizing Lean Six Sigma tools and methodologies to increase operational efficiency.

Mr. Bader holds an MS in Healthcare Delivery Science (MHCDS) from Dartmouth College and a BS in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.