Yvonne Burdick has experience as a health care administrator, as well as in operations, including hospital-based ambulatory care, surgery, emergency services, diagnostic imaging, facility planning and construction, budgeting and staffing. She has held leadership positions in hospital and ambulatory care settings and has expertise in facilities management and emergency preparedness. She has also been involved in the development and implementation of health service accreditation systems and quality improvement programs internationally.
Ms. Burdick started her career as a research scientist and laboratory manager in the medical field and later gained extensive management experience in the areas of clinical research, toxicology, occupational health, safety, and environmental affairs. On completion of her master’s in health administration, she worked as an assistant administrator in a 300-bed community hospital where her responsibilities included management of an ambulatory care center, construction of a magnetic imaging center, and development of the master facility plan.
From 1992 to 2000, she worked in collaboration with the World Health Organization in countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Dutch Antilles, Guatemala, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela) on projects to develop and implement quality improvement programs and accreditation systems for health services including hospitals, ambulatory care centers and clinical laboratories.
Her most recent positions were as the administrator of a medical center that offered 24-hour urgent care, laboratory, radiology, computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, family practice, and medical specialists and as executive director of a large medical and diagnostic center that included outpatient surgery and cardiac catheterization.
In 1998, she trained as a consultant with Joint Commission Resources. She has consulted in a large number of assignments both in the United States and internationally. Her assignments have included health care systems, major academic centers, military hospitals, community hospitals and hospital-based ambulatory services. She has also worked with Ministries of Health and Hospital Associations to assist in the development of accreditation programs and training.
Her international experience has included consultation in major hospitals and health systems in Latin America, India, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She was a member of the team assigned to survey hospitals in Spain in collaboration with the Donabedian Institute, Barcelona, Spain. In 1998, she was assigned by the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) to serve on a panel to review International Principles for Accreditation.
Ms. Burdick speaks Spanish and she has lived and worked in Scotland, Switzerland, Brazil, the United States, and Venezuela.
Ms. Burdick received her bachelor’s of science in biological sciences with honors in physiology from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and her master’s in health administration from Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. Her professional affiliations include American College of Health Care Executives and Center for Health Design. She is accredited and certified in Evidence-Based Design.