Last month, officials with Capella Healthcare announced Dana Rice, RN, MHA, CCM, has been appointed senior vice president and chief quality officer. With more than 20 years of healthcare experience, Rice will be responsible for working with the company’s hospitals on clinical operations and quality performance.

Previously, Rice served as senior director of Hospital Operations for Kaiser Permanente, acting as an administrative liaison to 11 hospitals in the Colorado region, and as regional director of Resource Stewardship. Before joining Kaiser, Rice spent two years as COO for a Capella hospital in Olympia, Wash. She holds an associate’s degree in nursing, a bachelor’s in health services management, and a master’s in health administration.