Community Service Career
In December 1997, O'Neill together with Karen Wolk Feinstein, President of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, founded the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI). They assembled a wide-ranging coalition of healthcare interests to begin to address the problems of healthcare, as a region. PRHI adapted the principles of the Toyota Production System into the "Perfecting Patient Care" system. Mr. O'Neill became a leader locally and nationally in addressing issues of patient safety and quality in healthcare.
O'Neill was also pegged by Mayor Tom Murphy as a co-leader of Pittsburgh's Riverlife Task Force, along with the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at the time, John G. Craig Jr.
In 2005, O'Neill entered closed-door meetings with the Pittsburgh Gambling Task Force to help them reach a "no-endorsement" stance on what casino to recommend. (News from June 1, 2006)
O'Neill is also a member of Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College's Dean's Advisory Council.
Since 2008 he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School. Within the center he was named co-chair of The Deming Cup initiative, an excellence award to recognize world leaders who have made outstanding contributions in the area of operational excellence and have fostered the culture of continuous improvement in an organization.
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