The 24-hospital organization has added two new positions — COO and chief clinical officer — to report to CEO Doug Hawthorne. Those positions are expected to be filled later this month. The organization is also cutting some senior management positions, although the news release did not offer further detail on which jobs would be affected.
The system is also forming a dyad model of leadership. Under the system’s COO and CCO will be three geographically-divided zones: North, Southeast and Southwest. Each of those zones will have two executive vice presidents — an operations leader and a clinical leader — who are jointly responsible for their respective zone.
Governing boards have also been restructured. Along with the system board, each zone will have its own board to oversee physician alignment and partnerships.
“This dyad leadership model has been adopted by other leading healthcare systems and has proven to be an effective structure for aligning operational and clinical sides of large, complex health organizations,” Mr. Hawthorne said in the release. “So we are transforming our organization from being a hospital-centered system to become a well-connected and coordinated system of health services that strives to help people be healthy and well in addition to expertly treating disease.”
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