Experts

Stacey Hord

Golden Living
 

Stacey Merritt Hord is a healthcare executive with expertise in educating, deploying and sustaining the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence as a business model in post-acute care and other sectors. Stacey’s role with Golden Living is Vice President of Quality. Facilities under her operational oversight as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator received AHCA/NCAL Bronze and Silver recognitions, along with Alabama Level 1 Commitment to Excellence, Level 2 Progress Toward Excellence and the Level 3 Alabama Excellence recognition.

Her faculty experience includes the AHCA/NCAL National Convention, Alabama Quality Award Conference, AHCA Quality Symposium and Georgia Health Care Association Convention, as well as other venues. Stacey served on the panel of experts for the AL Quality Award Conference in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and has served as an AHCA Quality Award Examiner in multiple roles (Bronze, Silver, Silver Team Leader and Master Examiner) since 2002. She is currently a member of the AHCA Quality Improvement Committee and AHCA QAPI subcommittee. In addition, Stacey serves as chair of the 2015 QAPI Tools and Resources Workgroup for the Quality Improvement Committee.

She has been a member of the AHCA Public Education and Communication Campaign since 2012 and served on the 2013 AHCA Professional Workgroup Development Committee. Stacey was also a member of the 2012 CMS Antipsychotic Quality Measure Technical Expert Panel and served on the 2014 CMS Person Centered Care Technical Expert Panel.