Lillian Carson, RN, BSN, MSN, MBA

Lillian Carson is the senior vice president of Ambulatory Surgery Services Operations for the Partnership and Business Development team at Virtua. She has over 30 years of experience in healthcare, in both clinical and management operations and strategic development. In her current role, she is responsible for the development and oversight of the Ambulatory Surgery Centers, established through partnerships between physicians and Virtua. The surgery centers, which are located throughout the state of New Jersey, ensure continuity of care, consistency, and compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and regulations. Lillian serves on several ASC boards and clinical operations committees for the ASCs and provides administrative direction for clinical practice, quality metrics, credentialing, governing body Bylaws, regulatory guidelines, and state law requirements.

Previously, she served as Virtua’s AVP for surgical services. During that time she has worked to standardize surgical practice to ensure quality and safety, assisted with development of surgical product review, worked to improve access to surgical services and implemented enhancements to our I.T. and business intelligence systems. She has developed strong working relationships with our surgeons and assisted with the development of meaningful comparative acute and ambulatory care surgical dashboard.

Prior to joining Virtua, Lillian worked at Jefferson Health as vice president of procedural services, which included imaging, surgical services, cardiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and all ambulatory services. She also spent significant time at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Jefferson Health in both surgical services and patient care areas in various leadership roles.

Lillian is an RN and has a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University, an MSN from University of Phoenix and an MBA from Eastern University. She has her certification in perioperative nursing and RN first assistant, and is the director-at-large for the South Jersey Chapter for the American College of Health Care Executives in which she is a Board member on the Healthcare Leaders Network for the Delaware Valley regional chapter. Lillian is a member of the New Jersey Association for Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and serves on several committees, as well as the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. She is also a surveyor for both the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, CMS, and Investigations.

She has three grown children and six grandchildren. Lillian resides in Philadelphia with her husband Joe.