Marjorie Quint-Bouzid, BSN, DPA, RN, NEA-BC, has been named chief nurse executive for Kaleida Health following a national search.
In this role, Dr. Quint-Bouzid will have oversight for nursing across the entire organization.
“We are very pleased to recruit Marjorie to Buffalo as a key member of the Kaleida Health leadership team,” said Don Boyd, president and CEO of Kaleida Health. “She brings a very strong background in nursing leadership, clinical operations, quality and safety initiatives as well as nursing career pathways. I am confident that she will have an immediate impact on our nursing workforce and help improve patient care across the organization.”
Dr. Quint-Bouzid joins Kaleida Health from Parkland Health & Hospital System – an integrated health system with an 882-bed acute care hospital and outpatient health centers located throughout Dallas County, Texas.
Parkland is a primary teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and houses the first Level 1 trauma center in North Texas and the first Level 3 NICU in Dallas.
At Parkland, Dr. Quint-Bouzid served as senior vice president, Women and Infants Specialty Health (WISH) administrator, where she had clinical and operational oversight for the delivery of safe quality patient care for annual volumes representing over 12,500 deliveries, over 1,400 NICU discharges, over 24,000 women’s emergency visits, and 260,000 outpatient visits.
During her tenure at Parkland, Dr. Quint-Bouzid also implemented a staffing stabilization program to reduce turnover; developed and implemented a leadership succession plan to grow and promote internal candidates for leadership positions; developed and implemented the first nurse leader onboarding tool; and helped create initiatives that improved throughput, increased volumes and fostered community partnerships.
As a community healthcare administrator at Parkland Health, she co-sponsored and developed Parkland’s Extending Maternal Care After Pregnancy (eMCAP) program. This program subsequently has been awarded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Challenge Award for innovation in postpartum care and the 2022 John Eisenberg Award (TJC & IHI) for local innovation in patient safety and quality.
Dr. Quint-Bouzid previously served as vice president patient care services and chief nursing officer at Fort Washington Medical Center in Fort Washington, MD; senior director women’s and children’s & cancer services at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, VA; and director of perinatal nursing services at Grady Health System in Atlanta, GA. She also held various other nursing and leadership roles earlier in her career.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from D’Youville University in Buffalo, Master of Public Administration from Troy State University in Troy, AL, and Doctor of Public Administration from Capella University in Minneapolis, MN. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives Member and the National Association of Health Services Executives.
Cheryl Klass, BSN, MBA, RN, has been serving as chief nurse executive and chief operating officer since July 2022 and will remain chief operating officer for Kaleida Health.