Lynda Martin is a registered nurse with more than 25 years of senior leadership and management experience in the healthcare quality, patient safety, performance improvement, infection prevention, pay-for-performance, federal contracting, regulatory and accreditation arenas. She has experience with developing innovative quality, patient safety and performance improvement programs to drive advances across the care continuum, as well as directing large-scale initiatives and engaging cross-functional teams to achieve safe, quality, cost-effective outcomes. She is skilled at establishing strategic relationships. At Premier, Martin is the director of clinical operations and the director of Premier’s Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN), a prime contractor HIIN for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Partnership for Patients program. She has responsibilities for leadership, development and execution of the clinical assessment and quality improvement strategy for the Premier HIIN program. This includes oversight of the clinical and technical assistance provided to hospitals for improving clinical processes, culture, patient safety and infection prevention and for the engaging of senior leaders, patients and families to reduce preventable harm and readmissions and improve the patient experience across the care continuum.