Nancy Carragee

Vice President, Quality

With nearly 25 of years experience in health care, Ms. Carragee has developed expertise in leadership development, change management, and innovation. As Director of Quality at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, she led a team for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s (IHI) first national collaborative on preventing medication errors. Ms. Carragee went on to become faculty for IHI in medication error prevention.

Since joining DCHS in 2005, Ms. Carragee has consistently demonstrated in-depth knowledge in clinical performance, quality improvement and patient safety. She represents DCHS in various quality committees and panels, both locally and nationally. Ms. Carragee has served on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement and is an active contributor to national work groups addressing sustainable quality improvement strategy.

In her system leadership role, Ms. Carragee guides and supports our Local Health Ministries to raise the bar on key measures consistent with our mission of providing excellent and safe care for our patients. Ms. Carragee pursued and secured multi-million dollar grants for reducing sepsis mortality in our northern and southern California Local Health Ministries, and her expertise will be critical as we work to transform the patient experience and provide the highest quality care in our Local Health Ministries.

Ms. Carragee received her bachelor of science degree in Nursing from Villanova University and her master of science degree in Administrative Medicine from the University of Wisconsin Medical School.