Dr. Guy R. Nicastri, FACS, a respected local surgeon with more than 35 years of clinical practice experience, has been appointed Chief Quality Officer at CharterCARE Health of Rhode Island.
This new role is a condition of state approval for CharterCARE’s sale and divestiture from Prospect Medical Systems. Dr. Nicastri will lead the Medical Staff Performance Improvement Plan, working with medical staff leaders and members of both Our Lady of Fatima Hospital and Roger Williams Medical Center. He will also oversee the quality, risk management, and infection control departments, while ensuring regulatory compliance and fostering a culture of continuous quality improvement.
Board-certified in general surgery, Dr. Nicastri has special expertise in advanced laparoscopy/robotics, advanced hernia repairs, foregut surgery for reflux/GERD, breast cancer, skin cancer, including melanoma, colorectal surgery, and treatment/surgery for gallbladder disease.
Throughout his professional career in Connecticut and here in Rhode Island, Dr. Nicastri served in numerous administrative and leadership roles including chief of surgery, OR committee chair, medical executive committees, performance improvement committees, and utilization review committees.
CharterCARE CEO Jeffrey Liebman stated, “Dr. Nicastri’s decades-long clinical experience and commitment to quality improvement make him ideally suited to lead our effort to facilitate alignment between quality initiatives and the hospital’s strategic plan.”
He has been recognized for excellence in medical education and is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. A graduate of Boston College, he received both his medical degree and his Master of Science in Physiology from Georgetown University School of Medicine.