Yvonne P. Burdick, MHA, FACHE, EDAC
Consultant, Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International
Yvonne Burdick has more than two decades of experience as a health care administrator. She has held leadership positions in hospital and ambulatory care settings with direct responsibilities for operations, budgeting and staffing. She has gained extensive expertise in facilities management, design and construction of health care facilities, 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 held several senior management positions including assistant administrator in a 300-bed community hospital, and administrator for two large medical centers offering a wide range of outpatient services including day surgery, cardiac catheterization, 24 hour urgent care, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, and clinics. During her career as a health care administrator she gained experience developing facility master plans, facility design and management of construction projects.
She has worked in collaboration with the World Health Organization in countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean on projects to develop and implement quality improvement programs and accreditation systems for health services including hospitals, ambulatory care centers and clinical laboratories.
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 experience has included consultation for JCI standards compliance and design of health care facilities in major hospitals and health systems worldwide.
Ms. Burdick was born in Scotland, speaks Spanish, and has lived and worked in Switzerland, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States where she now resides.
Ms. Burdick received her bachelor’s of science in biological sciences with honors in physiology from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and gained her master’s in health administration (Phi Kappa Phi) from Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. She is a Fellow in the American College of Health Care Executives. She is accredited and certified in Evidence-Based Design by the Center for Health Design.