About the Authors

Aruna Vadgama, RN, MPA, CSP, CPHQ, CPE, COHN-S, SRN, CHRM, is Administrator of ASSE’s Healthcare Practice Specialty. She has more than 17 years’ experience as a healthcare executive and recently was director of quality and risk management services at South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach, CA. Before this she was vice president of the quality resources department at The Menninger Clinic, an affiliate of the Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX. She can be reached at vadgamaa@worldnet.att.net.