Adam Hill

Adam began his nursing career in 1999 at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center upon his graduation from the University of Cincinnati's College of Nursing. The following 18 years he committed his professional nursing career to improving the health of children and adolescents with psychiatric and mental health challenges. Cincinnati Children's vision, "To be the leader in improving child health", aligned well with Adam's passion and he was able to impact the health and wellbeing of children through a variety of professional achievements. Adam's career spanned a variety of roles ranging from direct inpatient therapy, academic educator, innovation and quality improvement, management, leadership and care system development. In 2017, Adam's career expanded when he assumed additional areas of responsibility as a Vice President for Patient and Nursing Services at Cincinnati Children's.

Adam's early experiences as a nurse leader and advocate came in 2002 when he assumed a Charge Nurse role for a 19 bed inpatient psychiatric unit. During this time he developed and expanded his impact on leading teams, promoting evidence based care, improving quality and safety of care, introducing family centered behavioral care and expanding future psychiatric nursing workforce through student nurse education. Adam continued in this role until Cincinnati Children's decision to improve child health further by expanding its commitment to children, adolescents and families challenged with acute and chronic mental illness. Adam transitioned into a nursing educator role and assumed responsibility for the education, onboarding and crisis intervention program as the psychiatric system expanded into a new psychiatric hospital at the Cincinnati Children's College Hill campus and hired hundreds of new clinical staff.

Adam became a nursing Clinical Manager in 2004 and eventually transitioned into a nursing Clinical Director until 2014. During this time he had 24/7 responsibility for 28 highly specialized child inpatient psychiatric beds with a reporting nursing workforce of approximately 120 employees. The responsibility also included the provision of care standards, oversight of quality/safety, workforce competency/development, patient/family experience and finances. During this decade he led teams through scientific approaches to quality improvement, implementation of evidence based clinical care programs, improved experiences for children and families and began to share these experiences professionally through presentations and publication.

In 2007, Adam led the development and opening of a specialized 10 bed inpatient psychiatric unit for children with developmental disabilities; this unit was the only one of its kind in the Midwest and one of less than 5 nationally. Not only did this unit provide hope and better care for these kids and families; but it served as a valuable care delivery model to be shared through countless venues with other healthcare systems across the nation and continues as a unique model of care.

Adam demonstrated achievements in scientific approaches to quality improvement and leading teams through principled application of High Reliability Organizations as a nursing leader. His accomplishments in reduction of safety events, improved employee safety and general care delivery quality led him toward many presentations through national and international venues. As a member of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses he was able to network with other professionals, share learnings and impact the quality of child and adolescent psychiatric care across the nursing profession.

In 2014, Adam was promoted to Assistant Vice President for Patient and Nursing Services for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During this role, Adam had responsibility for the Cincinnati Children's College Hill Campus, 110 bed inpatient psychiatric system of care, 30 Residential long term care beds, and a variety of intensive outpatient services. He had responsibility for a workforce of about 500 employees, 24/7 operations, strategic and operational planning and care delivery quality. During this time he had the opportunity to further expand services, partner with community mental health systems of care and impact the strategic future of mental health care with his nursing, physician and clinical teams. Nationally, suicide became the 2^nd leading cause of death for children and adolescents between the ages of 10-24 years. While other cities and pediatric academic medical centers were recognizing the overwhelming unmet demand for pediatric mental health services; Adam was able to provide system development and oversight as an Assistant Vice President for the largest pediatric mental health care system within an academic hospital in the nation. Adam, his physician colleagues and nursing staff have provided consultation for numerous hospital systems, presented internationally on safety/quality systems of care at venues such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Solutions for Patient Safety.

In 2017, Adam was promoted to Vice President at Cincinnati Children's; where his responsibilities expanded beyond the psychiatric system of care. Adam is responsible for a nursing workforce of approximately 2,000 employees and he has operational and strategic responsibilities for the Ambulatory system of care (greater than 95% of all patient encounters) and has nursing oversight with his 5 Assistant Vice Presidents for Perioperative Services, Home Care Services, Care Management, Emergency Departments, Transport and Psychiatry. Adam continues his commitment to foundations of patient and employee safety with aspirations to eliminate patient and employee safety events. Adam reports to the Sr. Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer and continues his commitment to support Cincinnati Children's vision "To be the leader in improving child health".