Linda Kluge is the senior executive director of Quality & Strategic Alliances for Alliant Health Solutions. She has more than 45 years of experience in dietetics and quality management and has held supervisory, management and clinical roles for various health care providers.
Kluge joined Alliant, then known as the Georgia Medical Care Foundation, in 2003 as a quality improvement and education specialist. She then served as a home health/nursing home/quality team manager before being promoted to the director of the Quality Improvement Organization and serving as an Alliant executive management team member. She has extensive experience working with nursing homes, hospitals and communities on initiatives for patient safety, care transitions and beneficiary protection.
Before joining Alliant, Kluge held several positions at Beverly Enterprises, a long-term care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation provider, including serving as a senior director of its quality management department. She started her dietetics career as a dietary consultant for Judy Ford Stokes & Associates in Georgia and Florida.
After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, Kluge completed the coordinated undergraduate program in dietetics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and professional development in gerontology certificate from Emory. She received the Distinguished Service Award from Aging Services of Georgia, the President’s Mentor Award from the Florida Dietetic Association, the 2018 American Health Care Association Mary K. Ousley Champion of Quality award, and the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University. Kluge represents Alliant on the American Health Quality Association Board of Directors.
Kluge is a national, state and local member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a member of the National Association of Healthcare Quality and the Georgia Association for Healthcare Quality, and a member of the Southeast Association of Facilitators. She is also is a leadership team member of the Dunwoody Evening Community Bible Study.
