Hackensack Meridian Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Receives United Hospital Fund’s 2022 Excellence in Health Care Award   

Hackensack Meridian Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Receives United Hospital Fund’s 2022 Excellence in Health Care Award

Dr. Thomas Bader was recently selected for UHF’s 2022 Excellence in Health Care Award.

The United Hospital Fund recently honored Thomas J. Bader, M.D., MBA, the Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer of Hackensack Meridian Health, with its 2022 Excellence in Health Care Award. Dr. Bader was one of 73 leaders from 68 health care organizations in the metropolitan region to be selected for this honor.

“Dr. Bader’s award is well-deserved,” said Daniel Varga, M.D., chief physician executive, Hackensack Meridian Health. “His leadership and dedication has led to meaningful change for Hackensack Meridian Health, our patients and our clinicians. From continuing to improve the care we provide to our delivering mothers to helping build our COVID-19 monoclonal antibody programs, helping hundreds of patients across New Jersey.”

The Excellence in Health Care Award recognizes personal leaders who work to improve patient experience, patient safety and quality of care. Honorees are chosen for their accomplishments, vision and their participation in hospital systems, long-term care facilities, home care organizations, independent practice associations and federally qualified health centers throughout the greater New York metropolitan region.

Dr. Bader was honored for being instrumental in Hackensack Meridian Health’s OB-GYN Quality Care Initiative, which appointed physician safety officers in all units to help ensure equity, safety, and quality maternal health. In response to COVID-19, Dr. Bader was essential in partnering with experts in ICU’s and medication therapeutics, as well as hospitalists and chief medical officers network-wide. He worked to help develop protocols and standardize therapeutic approaches within weeks, communicating early in the pandemic through effective webinars produced three days each week. Currently, he’s focusing on creating a system to provide access to the latest COVID-19 medications and therapeutics.

“I feel honored to have received this award,” said. Dr. Bader. “We’re responsible for the health of everybody in the community – it’s the thread that runs through all we do. I’m grateful for the opportunity to improve situations for our patients and our providers by addressing challenges, alleviating barriers, and expanding access.”

Dr. Bader joined the Hackensack Meridian Health team in 2019 as Vice President of Medical Quality. Since 2021, he’s worked as the network’s Chief Clinical Officer. In his current role, Dr. Bader works with Physician Enterprise leadership, medical staff presidents and chief medical officers across the network.

Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Bader is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed his training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and spent two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania after his residency.

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