BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF BRIAN E. GOOCH

Mr. Gooch is a principal in the firm Gooch and Associates.  He has been providing consulting services in this capacity for over nine years.  His consulting focuses primarily in the areas of infrastructure development and performance improvement.  Prior to that he consulted and provided educational programs for the Joint Commission Resources (JCR).  For over six years he was a surveyor for the Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in the hospital and ambulatory care accreditation programs.  During that time he also participated in international accreditation surveys with the Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) and consulted for Joint Commission International (JCI).  In all, he has surveyed or consulted for over 500 hospitals and healthcare organizations domestically and internationally. Before he joined the Joint Commission, Mr. Gooch was employed by the American Hospital Association as a regional executive, serving the four states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, a region with over 1000 hospitals.  He served in the U.S. Public Health Service and U.S. Navy for over 20 years attaining a rank of Commander.  Besides positions as a healthcare executive, he was also a senior health care policy analyst.  Further, while assigned as Chief of the Quality Improvement Branch for the U.S. Coast Guard, he oversaw the design and implementation of the Coast Guard’s first healthcare quality improvement program. Mr. Gooch holds a Masters Degree in Healthcare Management from the Medical College of Virginia and a Masters Degree Human Resources Management from the University of Utah.   Brian Gooch is recognized by Dr. Dennis O'Leary, President of JCAHO He was graduated from the University of South Alabama with a Bachelors Degree in Biology.  He is Board Certified in Hospital Administration, a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and achieved the rank of Fellow.  Mr. Gooch is an accomplished public speaker having spoken to national groups such as the Medical Group Management Association and the National Managed Health Care Congress and to local and state groups such as the Dallas Business Group on Health and the Florida Hospital Association.

Our Mission:  To improve our clients’ ability to provide safe, quality patient care services.

Our Services: Our services focus on issues that help you provide better care and services to your patients. 

These include:

Mock surveys performed only by consultants trained as domestic and international JCAHO surveyors,

Education programs on current and emerging Joint Commission issues, such as patient safety, staffing effectiveness, root cause analysis or Failure Mode Effects Analysis,

Provision of routine, periodic, on-site support to clients to help them maintain continuous standards compliance and survey readiness,

Support ad hoc, with problem issues such as Sentinel Event/Root Cause Analysis, or FMEA (including team facilitation),  Medical Error resolution, patient safety program development, HR/staffing analysis, and medical staff leadership and nursing issues, and

Support and assistance with development and implementation of corrective action plans or evidence of standards compliance (ESC) following self-assessments.