Jodi (Janet) Larson, MD, Named Chief Quality and Experience Officer at Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) has announced that Janet (Jodi) Larson, MD, has been named Chief Quality and Experience Officer (CQXO). In this key leadership role, Dr. Larson will lead Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s quality, safety and performance improvement activities as well as efforts to ensure the best experience possible for patients and family members, employees and providers.

“This is a new role which I personally established and underscores the importance of quality, safety, and experience across the Newton-Wellesley Health System. Dr. Larson will lead the development of a quality and service culture at NWH where quality, safety and service strategies are closely aligned to ensure the best experience and outcomes for every patient,” said Michael R. Jaff, DO, President, Newton-Wellesley Hospital. “NWH has built a wonderful reputation for high-quality care with an exceptional experience and Dr. Larson will dramatically expand upon those successes to create the best place for patients to receive care, providers to practice medicine, and for employees to work. ”

Prior to her new role as CQXO, Dr. Larson was Acting Associate Chief Medical Officer and the Medical Director for Quality and Patient Safety. She also previously held the roles of Program Director of the NWH Transitional Year Residency and Site Director of the MGH Internal Medicine, MGH-McLean Psychiatry, Harvard/Longwood Psychiatry and MGH Anesthesiology residencies. Dr. Larson has served as the Assistant Chair of the Department of Medicine since March 2008 and will continue to work clinically on the Adult Internal Medicine Hospitalist Service. She resides in Newton with her family.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital is a full system member of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (PHCS), a nonprofit organization that includes acute care hospitals Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals, The North Shore Medical Center, and specialty hospitals McLean Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, as well as Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare, and the community-based doctors and hospitals of Partners Community HealthCare, Inc.

Newton-Wellesley Hospital provides a wide range of services, including medical, surgical, OB/GYN, cardiovascular, emergency, orthopaedic, neonatal, pediatric, hematology/oncology, and psychiatric care. Newton-Wellesley has been serving its community for over a century. The medical staff of the Hospital includes nearly 1,000 physicians practicing a full range of specialties. NWH is a major teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine and has established post-graduate training programs for residents of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School.

For more information about Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s physicians, services, and specialties, contact CareFinder at 617.243.6566 or visit www.nwh.org.