USA Health Names Two Chief Quality Officers

Two USA Health physician leaders, Dr. Rachel Seaman and Dr. Nathan Polite, have been named chief quality officers for the health system. In their newly created roles, Seaman and Polite will work with existing programs to create and lead projects that drive improvements in quality, safety and patient satisfaction across USA Health. Seaman will serve as associate chief medical officer/chief quality officer for medicine, and Polite will serve as associate chief medical officer/chief quality officer for surgery. Seaman, an internal medicine physician and hospitalist, is director of academic hospital medicine for the department of internal medicine, associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, chair of the Internal Medicine Peer Review Committee, a member of the University Hospital Multidisciplinary Peer Review Committee, chair of the Performance Improvement Council at University Hospital and a member of the Serious Safety Review Committee. Polite, a trauma emergency general surgeon and surgical intensivist, has served as leader of the performance improvement program within the trauma program at University Hospital for the past two years, the at-large surgical representative for USA Health’s Surgical Service Performance Initiative and a member of the Task Force on Hospital-Acquired Conditions at University Hospital.