Edgar Blount is a physician consultant who assists in the design and education of JCR presurvey consultations and serves as faculty at JCR conferences, Department of Education seminars and the Joint Commission's Forum on Health Care Quality. He has completed the Joint Commission's course for surveyor training. Dr. Blount also was the lead consultant for Joint Commission International programs for accreditation/certification in Spain, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
During his 30 years in health care, Dr. Blount has been a member of and a consultant to quality improvement teams at JCR and various hospitals. He has successfully evaluated and consulted with more than 1,000 medical staffs and hospitals throughout the United States and internationally on issues concerning Joint Commission standards, performance improvement, and cost containment. He has contributed to Joint Commission Resources publications and other performance improvement journals. Dr. Blount has lectured in the United States and abroad on issues concerning Joint Commission standards, medical staffs, and organizational performance improvement.
Dr. Blount’s consulting expertise includes board, medical staff, leadership education and skill building; medical staff credentialing, privileging and bylaws; physician/hospital relationship issues; standards and survey education and preparation; performance improvement assistance and education; and medication management.
Dr. Blount previously was the regional health care coordinator for the greater Los Angeles, California, military region. His duties included coordinating health care between two major naval hospitals and numerous naval outpatient facilities. He also was head of quality assurance, risk management, and utilization review for the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He served as the special assistant of medical affairs for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense of Health Affairs at the Pentagon, where the majority of his time was spent developing Department of Defense policies and projects to evaluate and improve military health care and the credentialing and privileging of military physicians in the 154 Army, Navy, and Air Force hospitals. This included the designation of action officer for an external civilian review project for the military hospitals, which was a project developed by the Department of Defense to evaluate all military hospitals through an ongoing review of outcome indicators.
Dr. Blount also has served as associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California and the University of California–Irvine. He recently was elected to the Board of the National Children’s Medical Center in Washington, DC.
His professional affiliations include American Board of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Blount is fluent in Spanish.