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Sara Brown, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Parkview Regional Medical Center and Affiliates

Fort Wayne, IN

Dr. Brown serves as chief medical officer for Parkview Regional Medical Center and Affiliates, with primary oversight of Parkview Hospital Randallia’s 224 inpatient beds and an ongoing expansion that will add 120 additional beds, including a level 2 nursery and 82 inpatient psychiatry beds. She partners with physicians, nurses and operational leaders to advance quality, safety and workforce engagement across Parkview’s two largest hospitals. Dr. Brown plays a central role in systemwide initiatives, including workplace violence prevention, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia care standardization, and alcohol withdrawal management redesign. She chairs the hospital’s conduct review board, developing individualized care plans that balance patient access and staff safety, and previously led drug diversion prevention oversight to strengthen controlled substance compliance. For a decade, she has served as medical director of the mobile integrated health program, deploying community paramedics to skilled nursing facilities to reduce unnecessary transfers and support readmission reduction efforts. She also led systemwide projects including the implementation of an online on-call scheduling platform spanning more than 120 schedules, as well as the standardization of code status definitions across 11 hospitals, three partner hospitals and more than 1,000 outpatient providers. A practicing emergency physician for nearly 25 years, Dr. Brown continues to work clinically across 12 emergency departments.

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