Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital names new Chief Quality Officer

Orlando, FL (July 12, 2022) – Amit Bansal, MD MBA has joined Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital as chief quality officer (CQO) and assistant vice president, Orlando Health. In his role as CQO, Dr. Bansal collaborates with leadership and medical staff to support activities, processes, and policies resulting in high quality patient care driven by system-wide clinical practices and standards.

Dr. Bansal comes from Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania where he, most recently, served as division chief of hospital medicine for the central region and as physician advisor.  In this capacity, he oversaw a hospitalist group with more than 70 physician and advanced practice providers and was instrumental in driving improvement in several quality initiatives, including raising the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) star rating from one to four stars.  He has also been extensively involved in driving improvements in readmissions, length of stay and patient experience. 

“Dr. Bansal’s experience in leading medical teams in the provision of high-quality care for patients is outstanding,” said Thibaut van Marcke, president, Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips and senior vice president Orlando Health southeast region. “ We are pleased that he has joined Orlando Health and welcome him to our hospital family.”

Dr. Bansal earned his degree in medicine from University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India and completed his internal medicine residency at Guthrie Health – Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, PA.  He earned his MBA at the University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Bansal began his CQO role at Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips on July 1, 2022.

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level One Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level Two Adult Trauma Center in the St. Petersburg region. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. 

Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,200-bed system includes 10 award-winning hospitals, 9 hospital based ERs, and 7 free-standing emergency rooms; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,200 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 23,000 team members. In FY21, Orlando Health served more than 160,000 inpatients and 3.6 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided approximately $648 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.