Bashar Naser, JD, MHSA, serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center.
Bashar will serve on the panel "Three Top Concerns for CFOs in 2022 and How We are Dealing With Them" at Becker's Hospital Review 12th Annual Meeting. As part of an ongoing series, Becker's is talking to healthcare leaders who plan to speak at the conference, which will take place in Chicago from April 25-28, 2022.
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Q: What are your top priorities for 2022?
Bashar Naser: As we are recovering from the Pandemic, our focus is going to be on protecting our current work force and become successful in hiring more nurses. Recover volumes that were deferred for lack of beds and catch up with many delayed surgeries and perform more preventing testing as COVID positive rates have come down. Continue to prevent outmigration and provide all needed specialty coverage in our market.
Q: How do you plan to pivot strategies this year to better serve patients?
BN: Establish Hub clinics and provide specialty coverage via Telemedicine to expand coverage throughout our region.
Q: What technologies and innovations are you most excited about in healthcare right now?
BN: Right now I am interested in learning more about Artificial Intelligence and implementing in areas where it is hard to fill in some open positions such as the Business Office and our Clinics. We already us many of those products as part of our Electronic Health Records but I am looking to further expand such options.