Don Buckingham, Sr.
donabuckingham@gmail.com
Don Buckingham, Sr. is one of CCCO’s newest board members! He helps the board streamline our organization’s core values, goals and mission into actionable items. Don remains curious and uses compassionate communication in all personal and professional interactions; especially when listening with an empathetic ear and providing reflection and/or feedback. He defines the use of NVC as a spiritual practice for him — helping foster empathetic connection and honest communication with others.
In his role at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Don is a Senior Quality Improvement / Business Operations Excellence professional, utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, Statistical Quality Control, and Constraints Management methodologies in healthcare, supply chain, and business service environments. He has years of success designing and measuring effective work systems at all organizational levels - executive, management, front line and support services.
Don achieves sustainable results through deep respect for people and devotion to continuous quality improvement. Currently, he consults with pediatric clinical service line leadership and staff to develop service applications with a rigorous discipline for process waste removal, variation reduction and work simplification - all with a view toward optimal safety, quality, productivity, service delivery, and contribution margin.
“Coaching teams of medical professionals in the improvement of healthcare delivery is most rewarding and always challenging”
Don makes a difference every day by successfully integrating 1) clinical science; with 2) quality improvement science; and 3) operations management science for evidence based outcomes / service delivery excellence. Don is most inspired by St. Francis of Assisi. He finds peace and joy in the following quote from St. Francis; “You have been called to heal wounds; to unite what has fallen apart; and to bring home those who have lost their way.”