St. John’s Episcopal Hospital announces Mr. Dell Joiner as Interim Vice President Quality

QUEENS, N.Y. - Jan. 11, 2016 - PRLog -- St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is pleased to announce that Mr. Del Joiner has been appointed to Interim Vice President of Quality.  In his new role, Del will oversee the Clinical Quality and Patient Safety of the Hospital.  He will also be an active member of the Executive Management Committee, serve as an ex officio member of the Medical Executive Committee and exercise a strong influence in Board of Trustees matters.

Mr. Joiner comes to St. John’s with over 25 years of healthcare experience in urban and rural hospitals including clinical through senior leadership roles in quality, performance improvement, utilization management and risk management.  He has broad experience in developing, leading and implementing strong customer-focused, organization-wide performance improvement and case management initiatives.  He has provided expert professional services to quality improvement organizations and served as a primary resource in the development and deployment of population management and care coordination software systems.

His other leadership and quality initiatives include working with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), the research arm of the University of Chicago, to support the CMS Office of Minority Health’s 5-year strategy to close the gap on healthcare disparities.  Del has participated in, and provided presentations for a number of national quality improvement campaigns including Institute for Healthcare Improvement collaboratives and a primary leadership role in the American College of Cardiology’s 1000-hospital national Door-to-Balloon (D2B) STEMI quality and performance initiative.

St. John’s Board of Trustees and staff are excited to welcome Del to the Hospital and look forward to positive change through his leadership.

About St. John’s Episcopal Hospital

St. John's Episcopal Hospital, the cornerstone of Episcopal Health Services Inc., is the only full-service acute care hospital in the Rockaways. Celebrating 110 years of community care in 2015, the 257-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay. Key programs serving the Rockaways, southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County include an Emergency Department with 45,000 patient visits annually, a growing minimally invasive surgery program, obstetrics and gynecology, imaging, behavioral health, pediatrics, wound care and dialysis.

St. John's Episcopal Hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission and is a teaching affiliate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. The hospital is also a New York State Designated Stroke Center, a recipient of the Gold-Plus Get with the Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association, and is a certified emergency heart care station. St. John's Episcopal Hospital is also designated as a 911/Level II trauma receiving hospital by the New York City Department of Health.

Mission Statement

The mission of Episcopal Health Services Inc. of the Diocese of Long Island is to provide quality health care with an emphasis on patient safety through its hospital and ambulatory care facilities and continuing graduate medical education, recognizing the emerging life-care needs of the communities we serve.

The mission is overseen by the Bishop of Long Island and guided by the teachings and traditions of the Episcopal Church. An essential element of this ministry is pastoral care provided by a chaplaincy program sensitive to the faiths and traditions of those served.