Dr. Usha Subramanian joined VA Long Beach Healthcare System on July 16, 2023 as the Deputy Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n
Dr. Usha Subramanian has served as Deputy Chief of Staff since July 2023. Dr. Subramanian spearheaded several process improvement activities to enhance veteran experience and improve veteran Access to care and Quality.\u00a0 Dr. Subramanian was instrumental in expanding access for MRI, Breast Imaging and Interventional Radiology through clinic optimization. She served as executive sponsor for implementation of the STRIDE program to improve hospital length of stay and maintain functional status of our hospitalized veterans and the implementation of E Screening in Primary care.\u00a0 Dr. Subramanian currently holds a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare\u00a0and is a graduate of VA HCLDP [2022] and LVA program [2016] and served as an Advisory Board member at the Healthcare Leadership Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to her appointment at VALB, Dr. Subramanian served as Chief, Primary Care Hampton VA Medical Center for over 3 years during which time she was recognized by the National Office of Primary Care in 2021 for her efforts with improving Primary Care Access to Care and was also a recipient of the VISN HRO award in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Dr. Subramanian served in various Leadership roles at Indianapolis VAMC including Section Chief and Deputy Chief, Primary Care.\u00a0\u00a0 As a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of Primary care experience, Dr. Subramanian was responsible for leading a Service that has over 55 PACT Teams and serves over 58,000 patients annually.\u00a0 As the Medical Director for VA -GRACE \u2013 implemented the first program of its kind to reduce hospital readmissions for vulnerable elders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dr. Subramanian has had a rich research career \u2013 having served as a Research Scientist at Center for Implementing Evidence Based Practice and the Diabetes Translation Research Center and as an Affiliate Scientist at the COIN center in Indianapolis.\u00a0 She has led and participated in numerous studies on Aging and Chronic diseases of Diabetes, Heart failure and Dementia. She is a recipient of the VA Young Investigator\u2019s award and the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Subramanian had served as Chair, VA R&D in Indianapolis and has over 50 publications.\u00a0 She is an Associate Professor of Medicine from IU School of Medicine and received the Gold Star Teaching Excellence Award from IU School of Medicine and has mentored Medical Students, residents and Nurse Practitioner Students. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dr. Subramanian received her Medical School Degree from Gandhi Medical School, Hyderabad, India.\u00a0 After completing her Internship from University of Washington, she graduated in Internal Medicine from Providence Portland Medical Center. She is Fellowship trained in Health Services Research and Clinical Geriatrics from Indiana University.\u00a0 She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Usha Subramanian joined VA Long Beach Healthcare System on July 16, 2023 as the Deputy Chief of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-41899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}