Clients around the nation and in select places around the world:
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Current clients include:
Kaiser Permanente
Before joining KP as Vice President, Total Health Partnerships in May 2012, Tyler previously served (since 2003) as Senior Advisor to KP's Community Benefit division, with a focus on its community health initiatives. Kaiser Permanente is America's leading integrated health
care organization. Founded in 1945, it is a nonprofit health
plan, with headquarters in Oakland, California. Kaiser
Permanente serves the health care needs of over 8 million
members in nine states and Washington, D.C. Today, it encompasses
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation
Hospitals, and the Permanente Medical Groups, and it has
an affiliation with Group Health Cooperative, based in
Seattle. Kaiser Permanente aspires to be the world leader
in improving health through high-quality, affordable, integrated
health care. KP is distinguished by a strong social purpose,
physician responsibility for clinical care, and enduring
cooperation between its health plan and medical groups.
KP is the nation's first prevention-oriented health plan
and integrated delivery system. It serves 8 regions (Northern
and Southern California, Pacific northwest, Hawaii, Colorado,
Northern Ohio, Georgia and the Mid-Atlantic States (Washington
DC area.) Kaiser Permanente's Community benefit programming
includes charity care, safety net provision, dues subsidy,
educational theatre programs, community health, and medical
research and education.
YMCA of the
USA
Tyler was the first "Head Coach" (2004) of the YMCA's Activate America Initiative focused on physical activity, nutrition and civic leadership objectives. Together, the nation's 2,594 YMCAs
are the largest not-for-profit community service organization
in America, working to meet the health and human service
needs of 20.1 million men, women and children in 10,000 communities
in the United States. YMCAs are at the heart of community
life across the country: 42 million families and 72 million
households are located within three miles of a YMCA.
Public Health Institute
in 2009, Tyler was named a Senior Fellow of The Public Health Institute. PHI is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world. As one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation, we are at the forefront of research and innovations to improve the efficacy of public health statewide, nationally and internationally.
Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
From 2001-2006, Tyler served as Chair of the National Advisory
Council for Active Living by Design - a program of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation; and was the founding project director
of the Healthy Eating, Active Living Convergence Project
- initially conceived of, and funded by, the RWJF. RWJF is
the nation's largest philanthropy devoted to improving health
and health care, RWJF supports training, education, research
and projects that demonstrate effective ways to deliver health
services, especially for the most vulnerable among us. RWJF's “healthy
eating and active living portfolio” includes 25 funded
sites, a research center, national network, and resource
center.
WK Kellogg
Foundation
From 2005-2008, Tyler served as a strategic advisor on the
Kellogg Foundation's "Food and Fitness" initiative. The WK
Kellogg foundation's mission is to "help people help themselves
through the practical application of knowledge and resources
to improve their quality of life and that of future generations." Programming
activities center around the common vision of a world in
which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility
for self, family, community, and societal well-being; and
has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing
families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities.
The Health
Research and Educational Trust
From 1996-2007, Tyler served as a senior Program Designer
and Fellowship faculty member. HRET's goal is to advance
ideas and practices beneficial to health care practitioners,
institutions, consumers and society at large. Its principal
activities focus on identifying, exploring, demonstrating
and evaluating key strategic health care issues affecting
innovative health care delivery systems, educating the field
about the implications of changing health policies and developing
strategies for community health improvement. Through its
affiliation with the American Hospital Association, HRET
accesses valuable resources, data and thought leadership.
Yet it maintains the autonomy needed to examine issues independently
and objectively. HRET's independent board and partners contribute
significantly to the "brain trust" established at HRET.
Estes
Park Institute
Since the mid-1990's Tyler has served as a faculty member
(now as Fellow) of this prestigious institute. EPI conducts
educational conferences and provides opportunities for year
round learning for health care leaders. Founded in 1974 by
Dr. C. Wesley Eisele, today Estes Park Institute educates
approximately 3,000 health care leaders annually. Through
its six annual conferences Estes Park Institute provides
up-to-the-minute information, analysis and insight into the
problems and opportunities that face those in the health
care field. The faculty include experts in federal policy
and financing, healthy community development, organizational
structure and management, home health care, governance, credentialing,
legal issues, quality, management, healthcare informatics,
integrated delivery systems, team building, communications,
strategic planning and more. It is the goal of Estes Park
Institute to equip Institute members with the skills needed
to exercise leadership in this field, as well as the ability
and desire to do what is right, both for the people they
care for today and for all the people in their communities
whom they will surely care for tomorrow.