Barbara M. Balik BS, EdD, MS, RN

Barbara Balik, RN, EdD brings experience as a nurse, healthcare executive, mentor, and teacher to her work with healthcare clinicians and leaders to build systems and culture for quality, safety, patient-family experience, and staff-provider engagement. Recent partnerships involved developing skills and systems for patient-and-family centered care, excellent patient experience, reliable transitions in care, and development of effective quality infrastructures. The systems develop assure sustained improvement and innovation every day.
Barbara has a BS and MS in nursing and a doctorate in educational leadership. Her previous roles include Executive Vice President of Quality, Safety, and Technology for a large health system; CEO of a large hospital and clinics; VP of Patient Care/CNO; pediatric nurse practitioner and labor/delivery nurse.