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Kelli Evenson joined the WHA Quality team as an administrative assistant on Nov. 14, 2022. She will be working with the infection prevention and control team and various other projects through WHA’s work with Superior Health Quality Alliance. Evenson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and taught for six years. She is excited to continue to help her community in a new way.
 
WHA Chief Quality Officer Nadine Allen said, “We are very excited to be expanding our quality team through our partnership with Superior Health Quality Alliance. We look forward to Kelli working with hospitals, community coalitions, and nursing homes to coordinate care and improve patient outcomes across Wisconsin.”

Amber Hollerich joined the WHA Information Center (WHAIC) on Nov. 8, 2022, as a health care data analyst. This position primarily coordinates data-related functions for CheckPoint, WHA’s quality transparency website, including database changes and analysis, data loading, project planning and assisting members with CheckPoint-related questions. Hollerich will also be representing WHAIC on the Superior Health Quality Alliance as lead data analyst and will assist with analytic solutions especially as it relates to mining the hospital and ambulatory surgery discharge data and other “big data” such as government payer claims databases.
 
Hollerich graduated from Bemidji State University with a degree in Business Administration and is currently enrolled in the MBA program. She has over eight years of experience in the quality department and three years in the health information department at Mayo Clinic Health System.
 
“We are very fortunate to have someone with Amber’s experience on our team. I look forward to working with her for many years to come,” said WHAIC Vice President Jennifer Mueller.