Vice President of Patient Safety and Quality

Jared Capouya, M.D., M.S. HQS, is vice president of patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins All Children’s. He provides executive leadership to advance patient safety, quality, and service across Johns Hopkins All Children’s. Working closely with hospital and health system leaders, he helps set the strategic direction for quality and safety, promotes a culture of transparency and continuous improvement, and supports efforts to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients and families. He joined the hospital staff in 2026. 

Dr. Capouya has led pediatric patient safety and quality initiatives for nearly two decades. Before joining Johns Hopkins All Children’s, he served as chief of quality and safety at Nemours Children’s Health, first within the Florida Region and then across the Nemours enterprise. During his tenure, he integrated a preventable harm index into enterprise goals, resulting in a 30% reduction across all indicators. 

From 2018 to 2022, Dr. Capouya served as vice president of quality and safety at Arkansas Children’s, where he unified quality and safety efforts across a two-hospital system and reduced serious safety events by 66% through process redesign. Earlier in his career, he spent 10 years at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Washington, leading transformative safety initiatives as medical director of quality.

After earning his medical degree from the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Dr. Capouya completed his pediatric residency through USF at Tampa General Hospital and All Children’s Hospital, receiving the Outstanding All Children’s Hospital Graduating Resident Award. He returned to Johns Hopkins All Children’s in 2014–2015 as a pediatric hospitalist, supervising USF College of Medicine students and pediatric residents during their inpatient rotations on our St. Petersburg campus.

Dr. Capouya also holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality & Safety from the Thomas Jefferson University College of Population Health. He serves as the chair of the Children’s Hospital Association Child Health Patient Safety Organization (PSO), Patient Safety Team and is a member of the clinical steering team for Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS), as well as their Innovation Workgroup.