Nancy Hays

Nancy Hays serves as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Management within California State University, Long Beach's College of Health & Human Services, where she has taught since Fall 2015 while concurrently working as Medical Center Ethics & Compliance Officer at Kaiser Permanente's South Bay and West Los Angeles Medical Centers.

Her academic qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University
• Master of Public Health from UCLA
• Doctor of Public Health from University of Illinois at Chicago
• Compliance Healthcare Certification (CHC) from Health Care Compliance Association

Dr. Hays' professional focus bridges theoretical and operational aspects of healthcare systems, emphasizing regulatory compliance frameworks within integrated delivery networks. Her expertise spans ethics governance in multi-site medical facilities, population health strategy development, and global comparative health system analysis - directly reflected in her instruction of courses like Global Health Systems (422) and Population Health for Management (428) at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Her career trajectory demonstrates vertical integration across healthcare sectors, having previously managed executive operations for Kaiser Permanente's regional president and contributed to specialized medical publishing for emergency response and rehabilitation journals. This practitioner-academic duality informs her curriculum development and classroom instruction with real-world regulatory challenges.