Carol Ann Hudson, RN
Clinical Director, Population Health
Lifepoint Health 

Carol Ann Hudson is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience in Informatics, Regulatory Programs, Nursing and Practice Management. She is currently employed as the Clinical Director of Population Health at Lifepoint Health.

The Population Health team is responsible for Lifepoint’s portfolio of Accountable Care Organizations and Clinically Integrated Networks, along with other value-based initiatives. Carol Ann brings her clinical experience to the team to help the networks, facilities and providers improve clinical health outcomes of their assigned patient populations by promoting quality, care coordination, and patient engagement. She has also assumed the primary role in projects to aid providers in risk capture spending time in the practices with a CDI team and assisting in educational presentations. Lifepoint’s networks were the first to report CQM/eCQM’s to CMS utilizing a registry to consolidate clinical quality data from multiple EHR’s for performance year 2021.

Prior to joining Lifepoint, Carol Ann worked for Health Management Associates who was acquired by Community Health Systems in 2014. She was the clinical lead of the first Meaningful Use team there and worked with over 60 hospitals to meet Meaningful Use in 2011-2015. She has also worked as a consultant for private practices and an Accountable Care Organization.

Carol Ann is active through Lifepoint with NAACOS and the Federation of American Hospitals. She recently chaired the HIT Task Force for the Federation along with participating on their Quality Committee. The Federation of American Hospitals, founded in 1966, is the national representative of more than 1,000 tax-paying community hospitals and health systems throughout the United States. In 2022, she participated as a panelist on the CMS SSP Learning System Shared Learning Webinar: Strategies for eCQM/CQM Reporting.

Carol Ann is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and currently lives there with her family. Her primary leisure time activities center around enjoying time with grandchildren.