Aparna Gupta is Vice President Quality of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. She previously served as Vice President of Clinical Operations, Bundled Payment Solutions, Medicare, and Retirement for UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Prior to joining UHG, Gupta served as Director of Quality, Safety, and Value for the Allegheny Health Network (AHN). Gupta is a board-certified nurse practitioner with more than 20 years of health care leadership experience spanning quality improvement, health care operations, executive leadership, acute care, ageing, complex disease management, clinical services, and implementation of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs.
Prior to her roles with UHG and AHN, Gupta served as a consultant leading an initiative for 34 hospitals and health systems across Pennsylvania to reduce sepsis-related hospital admissions by working across the continuum of care to reduce gaps that lead to sepsis. She previously served as a Senior Nurse Practitioner with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, as well as a Registered Nurse and Charge RN at two hospitals in Colorado.
As part of her doctoral work, Gupta successfully implemented an evidence-base collaborative depression care management protocol in a primary care practice, improving mental health screening and interdisciplinary team-based care for populations with complex health conditions. Gupta has been an active leader in several professional organizations, including serving as President of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association. Gupta’s focus on outcomes-driven care delivery has led to significant improvements in value-based outcomes across complex and high-risk populations. As a health care quality expert, Dr. Gupta has been invited to speak on topics such as social risk, sepsis readmissions, managing the ageing continuum, and integration of mental health in primary care at events including the Institute of Healthcare Improvement Annual Forum. Gupta has led Transforming Care at the Bedside Teams (TCAB) and served as a master trainer for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) projects. Her years of delivering high-quality health care have resulted in the achievement of Fellow status with the American College of Healthcare Executives.