Restrictive Lung Disease (2025)

Carol Ash, DO, MBA, MHCDS, FACHE, CPHQ, CHCQM-PHYADV is a board-certified general internist, fellowship-trained pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine specialist with more than 25 years' experience in clinical medicine and healthcare administration. She is a graduate of Seton Hall University, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). She obtained an MBA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and fellowship status with the American College of Healthcare Executives. She is a 2017 graduate of Dartmouth's Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program, which offers advanced training in healthcare leadership, teamwork, finance, and operations.In her current role as Chief Medical Officer of RWJ University Hospital Rahway, she is responsible for Rahway’s Clinical Transformation and Integration Division and Community Outreach. As CMO her team was responsible for launching the facility's journey towards a High Reliability Organization. Her team took the organization from a Leapfrog C to an A in 2019 and has sustained it since achieving the highest Leapfrog score in the system. With system and national leaders, she has spent the past two years working on an innovative model for hypertension control that builds on prior successes. Using the principles and tools of transformation, the project is a strategy to address the hypertensive crisis that affects 112 million Americans. It will accelerate measurable progress toward mission, vision, and service line strategy. It is strategically designed to deliver on the Quintuple Aim, organization, and public health goals. It will ensure access to care for all patients including the vulnerable and extremely vulnerable. In 2024 she received 3rd honored place for Social Innovation in the state of New Jersey based on this work. In addition to hypertension, her team continues to develop the structure and process for a programmatic approach to chronic disease management.