Beth supports boards in advisory services in their governance work. Beth also led the governance program for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and has developed innovative tools and videos to support boards. She contributed to the governance portfolio for Solutions for Patient Safety, a 144 pediatric hospital network. She served on the boards of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS), Thedacare, The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, The Center for Healthcare Value, and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM).
DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPERBeth Daley Ullem, MBA, is a governance expert and committed activist for innovation in healthcare. She works with health system leadership teams, boards, and industry leaders to advance innovation in patient care. She is a repeat social entrepreneur who has founded three successful organizations to address issues make a difference in the quality of people’s lives and care. She brings high energy, bold and strategic thinking, and a passion for people to her work and life.
For 20 years, Beth led national advocacy to create patient-centered safety culture and improve quality systems. Her work has advanced changes in federal measures and Leapfrog ratings. She has also contributed deeply to improving frameworks for communication after harm and AI safety and governance. Published extensively and a public speaker to many audiences, she has a passion to challenge others to improve the status quo. Beth is the co-Founder of Patients for Patient Safety US (PFPS-US), founded to advance the national prioritization of safety. Her collaborative style and creative patient partnership has advanced safety and quality healthcare.
Beth created a philanthropic innovation fund to seed new ideas in the space of safety, communication after harm, and healing from harm. She has expanded the organization's focus towards women's birth injury and pelvic health and new modalities for healing from trauma.