Tyna Williams, RN is Chief Clinical Value Officer/Regional Chief Nurse Executive for Abrazo Health and Tenet Health Care. She joined the organization in 2008.

Williams is responsible for creating a culture of clinical accountability through high reliability science design, developing infrastructure for regional collaboration and best practice implementation, creating a centralized credentialing verification office for one stop medical staff credentialing and privileging, a system infection prevention program, and establishing a clinical outcomes management program.  Tyna is a transformational leader partnering with Abrazo CNOs in creating and implementing a Nurse Residency Program, Leadership Development Program, designing the Relationship Based Care Delivery model, Implementation of Abrazo Clinical Ladder, and the High Value Care Team.  The Nursing Organization focus is on advancing patient centered care by designing an environment of care that promotes advancing professional practice. Williams launched a successful patient safety program and instituted the Abrazo Quality Summit to focus on clinical outcomes. She actively leads the system through strategic planning process for clinical operations.

Williams has previous experience as System Director of Quality Management for Saint Joseph Healthcare in Lexington, Ky., Quality Resource Coordinator, Critical Care Educator and Staff Nurse for the University of Louisville Hospital.  She published on the Preceptor Leadership Program, which exists today at a 404-bed tertiary care teaching hospital, Practice Development (an international collaboration with the University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Patient-Centered Care, and Anticoagulation Management.  She has given national, state, and corporate presentations on staff development, preceptor programs, anticoagulation safety, ventilator management, creating dashboards, publicly report data, Perinatal harm reduction, and the process of writing for national awards.  Williams is a trained state Baldrige Examiner, served as a surveyor and editorial review board for state Baldrige applications.

Williams received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing with highest distinction from Indiana University Southeast and a Master of Science in Nursing from Bellarmine University. She has additional graduate education in Business Administration from Webster University. She is currently enrolled in post –graduate education studying Human Services with a focus on Healthcare Administration.   Her professional career consists of numerous presentations, publications, awards and distinctions including the 2007 Ernest Amory Codman Award.