KIM RUSSEL, President and CEO, Bryan Health (Lincoln)
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“I would say the biggest concern is access to healthcare services for two reasons. One is that Nebraska is one of the states that has not expanded the Medicaid program. The other reason is because we are a very rural state, which creates challenges, especially for access to specialty care.
We work very closely with the rural areas of the state on everything from physician recruitment to clinical education. We have a very active outreach program in which specialists actually go out to rural areas to see patients so they don’t have to travel. Cardiology physicians — who we call Bryan Heart physicians — lead the way in terms of outreach. In the past year, we’ve also started a new telehealth program.
Bryan Health also has its own college of health sciences, called the Bryan College of Health Sciences. It’s another avenue to train the next generation of health practitioners for our state.”
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