Anne Rooney, RN, MS, MPH
Vice President, Global Consulting Services
Anne Rooney currently serves as Vice President, Consulting and Education Services for Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International. In this role, Anne overseas consultant management and the delivery of consulting and educational services for U.S. and international clients of Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International, including individual health care organizations, government agencies, industry partners, and Ministries of Health. She is responsible for several portfolios, including U.S. Consulting, the Continuous Service Readiness (CSR) program which contracts with American client hospitals for a subscription package of consulting and education services, Solutions Consulting, and International Services (consulting and education).
Anne’s JCR and JCI experience includes consulting, education, speaking, and evaluation engagements in United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. She has worked on Joint Commission International projects with a wide range of government and non-governmental agencies, including the U.S. Peace Corps, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), The World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the National Center for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the World Health Organization, Regione Lombardia health authority in Italy, and with many Ministries of Health.
Anne has previously served as Executive Director, International Services, as well as Executive Director, Consulting Services for Joint Commission Resources. She served as Director of The Joint Commission’s Home Care and Hospice Accreditation Program in the United States, where she had responsibility for the management of the accreditation program and over one hundred accreditation surveyors. Prior to joining The Joint Commission, Anne served in a variety of clinical and management roles in both acute care and community health settings and served as adjunct faculty at Rush University College of Nursing and at Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Anne has presented at numerous state, national, and international conferences on topics such as The Joint Commission and JCI accreditation standards and survey process, performance measurement and improvement, ethics, and patient safety. She has published a number of professional articles, technical reports, research reports, and book chapters on healthcare quality, accreditation, and ethics. She currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the Peking University Health Sciences Center-JCI Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety, an education and research institute that represents a formal collaboration between JCI and Peking University in Beijing, China.
Anne received a baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Iowa, a master’s degree in oncology nursing from Rush University, and a master’s degree in public health with a specialty in Community Health Systems from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She also completed graduate work in ethics and philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.