Adele Cummins Email & Phone Number

Adele Cummins is a Quality Improvement Specialist. Colleagues describe her as "Adele has a tremendous knowledge for improving patient experience and has proven experience in driving these results particularly in pediatric home health.", "I have known Adele for the past 14 years, working with her both at UK HealthCare and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Adele facilitated many teams at both organizations to improve clinical outcomes for patients, improve staff satisfaction, and reduce organizational cost by eliminating waste and streamlining processes. Every role Adele has assumed has required attention to detail, excellent communication skills, formal and informal leadership, influencing people, and creativity. Adele has coached and developed individuals and teams, kept them on track, and delivered excellent outcomes. She is dedicated and focused, but also has the ability to think outside the box. I enjoyed the time I worked with Adele and appreciated her opinion, critical thinking skills, and ability to motivate others to find the best possible outcome.", and "I had the great pleasure of working with Adele in the chronic condition outcomes improvement strategic initiative at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She worked with clinical teams paticipating in a self-management support collaborative to incorporate "Lean" methodology. Adele coached and facilitated these clinical teams in value stream mapping of their key clinical processes. This pivotal work brought new insight to the health care professionals to start looking at their workflow processes through the lens of the customer(patient and families). As a Quality Outcomes Manager, Adele comfortably engaged everyone in outcomes improvement projects from patients/families, clinical teams, management and executive leadership. She has a strong and diverse skill set with deep clinical knowledge and expertise in health care quality improvement science and "Lean" methods. Adele is an intelligent, articulate, collaborative and dedicated professional. She would be a tremendous addition to any organization."

Listed skills include Leadership, Patient Satisfaction, Hospital Operations, Project Management, and 13 others.