0000-0001-8737-8804 About
Poonam Gupta is a physician and currently Head of Quality Improvement at the Heart Hospital of Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha. As Program Director for Value Improvement in Heart hospital, her work has been highly successful and gained local and international attention. Dr. Gupta is trained as Improvement Advisor from Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Boston, USA). She has a Master’s in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) and holds Lean for healthcare from university of Tennessee (USA). She is author of many published quality improvement papers in peer reviewed journals and serve as peer reviewer and academic editor. She has been a local and international speaker at various quality and patient safety forums
Additionally, she facilitates health care facilities licensing process under supervision of Ministry of Public Health Qatar to identify gaps in practices and providing subject matter opinions.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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Publications (12)
- Key lessons to improve care-factors contributing to delayed discharges and cost implications: medical conditions and rehabilitation delays at a tertiary rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia Save
- Developing and delivering a hybrid Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase II exercise program during the COVID-19 pandemic: a quality improvement program Save
- Enhancing early functional independence following cardiac surgery: a quality improvement programme Save
- Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the cardiac intensive care unit with a coordinated strategy and nursing staff empowerment Save
- Evaluation of a virtual quality improvement training programme Save
- Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on health disparities: Lessons from Israel on preventive health utilization Save
- 12 COVID realities: pivoting to virtual QI training in India Save
- A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Rejected Laboratory Samples and Enhance Specimen Acceptability Save
- Bundle approach used to achieve zero central line-associated bloodstream infections in an adult coronary intensive care unit Save
- Multidisciplinary, early mobility approach to enhance functional independence in patients admitted to a cardiothoracic intensive care unit: a quality improvement programme Save