Alumni/ae Spotlight

Barbara S. Brown (Ph.D. '87)

Dr. Brown currently is a Vice President with the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association. She directs the organization’s workforce, data sharing, community health, and HIPAA initiatives programs. She has been with VHHA since 1993. Prior to joining VHHA, she served as a divisional head of risk management for a multi-state malpractice insurer, associate director of a health services research institute and editor of a national nursing journal. Her clinical practice has been as a pediatric nurse practitioner and neonatal intensive care nurse. Dr. Brown is a frequent contributor to VHHA’s Review publication as well as having published in national health care, research and nursing journals.

She received her BSN from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, MSN from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. in health services administration and research from Virginia Commonwealth University.

During her career Dr. Brown has written and published over 60+ reports and articles in several prestigious publications like American Journal of Nursing and the American Journal of Medicine, on topics ranging from nursing shortage to management of colorectal cancer in Medicare HMOs.

About VHHA:

The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association was created in 1926 as a trade association of Virginia hospitals. It was called the Virginia Hospital Association until 1995, when members voted to change the name to reflect its changing membership, which now includes not only rural and urban hospitals, but integrated health care delivery systems and their long-term care facilities and services, ambulatory care sites., home health services, insurance subsidiaries, and other health system-related entities. VHHA’s activities generally focus on four areas: representation and advocacy, education, communication and health care data. For the past 76 years VHHA has played an integral role in helping the efforts of its members in improving the health status of their respective communities through comprehensive and accessible cost-effective health services by providing leadership, representation and advocacy services.