Pat Merryweather-Arges

Pat Merryweather-Arges, Executive Director of Project Patient Care, is an experienced quality and performance improvement professional focused on bringing the voice of the patient, resident, and family to policy and healthcare interventions. Prior to Project Patient Care, Pat served as the Executive Director of the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization over five states working on improvements in nursing homes, hospitals and community health. She implemented measurable quality care improvement initiatives of the federal government and developed collaborative learning and action networks aimed at improving individual and resident patient care; integrated care delivery systems; and prevention of disease and disease advancement. She partnered with hospitals, nursing homes, home health, physician practices, and patients and families along with their trade associations, professional organizations, and government and non-governmental organizations.

As the Senior Vice President of the Illinois Hospital Association for 26 years, Pat was the healthcare information and health care quality and policy liaison with local, state, and national public and private organizations. Pat also had the responsibility for the development and all management aspects of COMPdata (online comparative information network) and performance measurement development and services in Illinois and five other states. Pat also developed and managed the online consumer resource, Illinois Hospitals Caring for You web site. Pat developed and implemented the Quality Care Institute (QCI) which was built on existing hospital and IHA quality and safety initiatives and designed to promote innovative programs for measurably improving the quality of patient care.