Hospital Alliance Association

Jack McGurk is President of Systems Improvement Initiators, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in assisting companies, hospitals and healthcare facilities to improve their operations, reduce employee injuries, implement cost-effective environmental improvements, and increase workplace morale.  Mr. McGurk retired in August 2004 from the California Department of Health Services where he served as the Chief of the Environmental Management Branch.  He was responsible for oversight of eight environmental health programs including medical waste management, shellfish growing water sanitation, radiation clean-up, environmental health inspections of state-owned institutions, emergency preparedness and response to nuclear power plants in California, and recreational health.
Mr. McGurk has a Bachelors degree in Biology and a Masters degree in Public Administration.  He has been employed in the public health field for 51 years at the county and state levels along with consulting in the healthcare industry.  Among his accomplishments is his role developing legislation that became the California Medical Waste Management Act.  He developed and led a pollution prevention project with California hospitals to reduce solid and medical wastes.  He was honored by Region IX of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by receiving a 2004 Environmental Award for Outstanding Achievement for leading these efforts.
Mr. McGurk is a Past President of the California Environmental Health Association.  He also served for 20 years as a member of the Environmental and Public Health Council of Underwriters.  He serves as Executive Director for HospAA and conducts much of the training courses created by HospAA for EVS staff.