JASON MITCHELL, Chief Medical and Clinical Transformation Officer, Presbyterian Healthcare Services (Albuquerque) “I think for us, and the rest of the nation, hypertension is the biggest health concern. It is really a pandemic the nation is not treating adequately,…
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JAMES WEINSTEIN, DO, President and CEO, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System (Lebanon) “The definition of ‘population health’ is really important. Many people talk about population health in terms of the population coming through their health system. They’re often thinking about the…
CHRIS MOWAN, CEO, MountainView Hospital (Las Vegas) “The most pressing health concern in the Las Vegas market is access to primary care and a lack of primary care physicians. There simply aren’t enough physicians to serve our large and…
KIM RUSSEL, President and CEO, Bryan Health (Lincoln) “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…
NICHOLAS WOLTER, MD and CEO, Billings Clinic (Billings) “My biggest concern is getting really good at population health. By that, I mean the ability to take care of high-cost patients with multi-disease states and deliver…
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MARCY DODERER, President and CEO, Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock) “Unfortunately, when it comes to the status of children’s health in Arkansas, there isn’t just one dominant health concern. According to The Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT Data…
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A medical team of a dozen individuals from Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical Center is safe but stuck in Fiji after Tropical Cyclone Winston struck the country Feb. 20, according to WBALTV.com.
NOEL REA, Interim CEO, Cordova Community Medical Center skadjfoiasje ri;jaslkgjddlaksjdfoiasfsd “Recruitment and retention. Historical efforts have focused on travelers and managing the issue from a reactive process. There has been limited or no dialogue internally on recruitment. [We’re]…
WILL FERNIANY, PhD, CEO of UAB Health System in Birmingham skadjfoiasje ri;jaslkgjddlaksjdfoiasfsd “The most pressing concern for UAB, and most Alabama hospitals, is low reimbursement as benchmarked with the rest of the country. Case mix- and wage-adjusted,…