Dr. Aparna Gupta serves as vice president of quality with NHPCO. Aparna is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner, with more than two decades of healthcare leadership experience spanning quality improvement, healthcare operations, executive leadership, payer programs, and implementation of CMS/CMMI programs. Aparna has worked with the geriatric and advanced illness population both from a clinician as well as programmatic leadership standpoint. She has also held responsibilities across the continuum of care for areas including bundled payments, provider relations, CMS hospital stars, quality measurement, patient safety, infection prevention, patient experience, regulatory accreditation, healthcare risk and compliance management. Aparna has led transforming care at the bedside teams (TCAB) and served as a master trainer for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as well as End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) projects. Aparna holds a national quality improvement certification and fellow status with the American College of Healthcare Executives. Aparna’s current focus is on enhancing the health equity, quality, and measurement capabilities of hospice and palliative care providers across the nation.