Meet the Leaders
Bruce Shepard, Executive Director
Bruce Shepard is the executive director of the Community Quality Alliance, a clinically integrated network (CIN) affiliated with Northwest Health. Founded in 2016, the Community Quality Alliance was one of Arkansas’ first clinically integrated networks. In 2018, the organization launched a Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Community Health Alliance of the Ozarks. Shepard oversees both organizations.
Prior to joining Northwest Health in 2016, Shepard was vice president of product strategy and implementation for Savvysherpa, Inc., where he built innovative solutions to lowering health care costs. Before that he was the director of health and wellness innovations for Walmart. His experiences also include serving as a hospital CEO in Georgia, where he was CEO for Dorminy Medical Center in Fitzgerald and Clinch Memorial Hospital in Homerville.
Shepard earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Georgia Southern University and a master’s degree in business administration from Georgia College & State University. He has also earned national certification as a healthcare consumerism specialist.