Adrienne Mims

Dr. Mims has more than 30 years of clinical practice experience, including caring for Medicare beneficiaries in the hospital, office, nursing home, hospice and home care. She is board certified in family medicine and geriatrics, with fellowship status in both specialties. As a clinical epidemiologist, she has more than 20 years of administrative experience in using quality performance metrics to guide changes in clinical processes, clinician and patient education and organizational delivery system redesign in small clinical practices, large disease management, Medicare Advantage and managed care organizations.

Dr. Mims has returned to practicing primary care and geriatrics at the JenCare Senior Medical Center, a healthcare system that focuses on affordable quality care for vulnerable patients. Dr. Mims was previously vice president and chief medical officer for Alliant Health Solutions, the Quality Innovation Network—Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO). She is a Trustee for the Retirement Research Foundation, a national endowment that funds projects to improve the quality of care for seniors. She is former president of the American Health Quality Association, the trade association for QIN-QIOs. She was also on the boards of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians; Georgia Alzheimer’s Association; Georgia POLST Collaborative; the PCPI, a national organization that develops quality measures for all specialties; and the American Geriatric Society, where she chaired the audit committee.

Dr. Mims was appointed by the governor to the Georgia Older Adults Cabinet and the Georgia Council on Aging. She was medical director of Georgia Medicaid Management Program and a geriatrician and director of prevention health promotion and research with The Southeast Permanente Medical Group in Atlanta. She is a former member of the NCQA Geriatric Measurement Advisory Panel and the NCQA Committee for Performance Measures.