Bridget Hogan Cole, MPH is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for High Quality Care. She has a unique combination of education and experience in healthcare technology and public health administration, with more than 25 years of program leadership, organizational development, project development, and technology planning/implementation experience. Bridget has held operations, consulting, and administrative positions with community health centers, hospital systems, Blue Cross of California, Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospitals, healthcare engineering firms, and divisions of the Hospital Council of Southern California. She led the development and expansion of Blue Cross of California’s statewide Telemedicine Program – a collaborative of more than 60 rural provider locations and multiple specialty resources to improve access to care through the use of telemedicine.
For more than ten years, Bridget has led regional and statewide quality improvement and specialty care access programs; facilitated numerous panels and conferences; supported the design of funder/foundation initiatives and has been called upon as an expert resource on the advancement of quality improvement, specialty care access, and efficiencies across the safety net.
Bridget holds a Master’s in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.S. in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from the University of Vermont.
Bridget Hogan Cole, MPH