Daria Yang
Fellow | Ethics & Compliance Officer, HCA Healthcare, TriStar Horizon Medical Center
Belmont Collaborative for Health Systems Innovation
MD, MPH, CPHQ, ACHE
daria.yang@hcahealthcare.comBiography
Daria Yang, MD, MPH is a Senior leader in Quality and Public Health. She has dedicated her career to advancing the Quality of Care for Patients in a number of medium to large Healthcare systems across the country.
Dr. Yang currently serves as the Vice President of Quality, Patient Safety and Ethics and Compliance Officer for HCA TriStar Division's Horizon Medical Center. Since her tenure at TriStar Horizon, we have achieved CMS 4-Star rating, LeapFrog “A” safety rating, American Heart Association Silver Plus Award in Stroke Care, Tennessee Hospital Association Zero Harm Safety Award, and top overall Quality ranking in HCA Enterprise.
Prior to TriStar Horizon, Dr. Yang came most recently from Burbank, CA, where she has been serving as the Executive Director of Quality at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center and previously as VP of Quality & Utilization Management at the HCA Facility West Hill Hospital in California. She has many years of experience overseeing Quality, Risk management, Compliance, Infection Prevention and Utilization services. She has successfully lead her previous facilities throughout many Joint Commission surveys and certifications. During her career, she has implemented countless quality improvement initiatives and advanced hospital overall rankings in quality metrics. Before her dedication to the Quality world, Daria worked as the Operations Specialist to rebrand the acute inpatient rehabilitation services at Common Spirit in San Francisco, CA and Biopharmaceutical research at Sutter Health Research Institute in California.
Daria received her Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, then achieved her Master’s in Public Health at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT. She received her doctor of medicine at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. She is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, a long-time member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and is an Adjunct Professor at the UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.