Kelli C Davis's healthcare career spans over two decades and includes experience in acute care, public health service, research design, accreditation preparation, performance measurement, study design and implementation, data analysis, medical management and continuous quality improvement facilitation.

As principal of Davis Healthcare Consulting, Davis 's strategic approach to improving health plan performance has significantly benefited her clients who as a result, have received national recognition for their achievements. After consulting with Kelli Davis, one client was ranked in the 2006 U.S. News and World Report's Top 10 Commercial Health Plans while another was ranked in the Top 25 Medicare Plans. Under her direction, Davis led the HEDIS ® project for Prudential Healthcare in 1993 with over thirty health plans decreasing the data collection and reporting time by six months and saving the company over $5 million dollars.

Her leadership and expertise were again evident when Davis led healthcare organizations through over 40 accreditation surveys with successful outcomes. In 2000-2001, she facilitated four national continuous quality improvement activities using multi-disciplinary healthcare teams that produced statistically significant improvements in member satisfaction rates as measured by organizations' Consumer Assessment of Health Plans (CAHPs ® ) results and Health Care and Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS ® ) rates. The final result was higher levels of accreditation with the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Davis has worked with healthcare organizations such as Prudential Healthcare, Health Net of California and the Northeast, Independence Blue Cross, AmeriHealth, SummaCare, Indian Health Service and Mission Community College Health Center.

She has been published in peer-review journals such as Public Health Reports and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Business Weekly . She served on several Merck and Pharmacia Quality Improvement panels, the NCQA's HEDIS User's Group Steering Committee and the HEDIS Report Card Pilot Steering Committee and several ad-hoc committees for the Pacific Business Group on Health. She is a member of the National Association for Healthcare Quality.

Ms. Davis is known for her exceptional research and CQI skills. Her ability to analyze data and identify barriers to improvement or causes for poor performance goes beyond accreditation requirements resulting in organizations ability to implement cost-effective, evidence based solutions for improvement.

Offering a rare blend of epidemiological expertise and leadership, Kelli designed and implemented health outcomes studies in Pennsylvania , American Samoa and Massachusetts while serving as a commissioned officer with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. These studies resulted in public health policy recommendations for each region evaluated. Her achievements were recognized with both the prestigious U.S. Public Health Service Outstanding Unit Citation and the U.S. Public Health Service Unit Citation awards for her work in study design and implementation.

Ms. Davis received her Master of Public of Health from California State University-San Jose with honors in Epidemiology and Program Planning and Evaluation. Davis received her CQI training at the Juran Institute.