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A conversation with AHA Chair Tina Freese Decker and Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center." width="900" height="400"><p>In this episode, Tina Freese Decker, 2025 chair of the AHA Board of Trustees, talks with Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, in Sedalia, Mo., about the challenges that rural hospitals and health systems face.</p><p>Freese Decker and Wightman discuss working in a “family atmosphere” unique to a rural hospital and navigating the same pressures that face urban hospitals, including workforce shortages and the high costs of labor, supplies and drugs. Rural hospitals also experience severe underpayments by Medicare and Medicaid, and most have “razor-thin” operating margins.</p><p>Wightman describes leading annual advocacy days — where Bothwell board members meet with state legislators (and candidates in election years) — and emphasizes the importance of all team members telling the hospital story.</p><hr><p></p><hr><div><p></p></div><p> </p><div class="raw-html-embed"> <details class="transcript"> <summary> <h2 title="Click here to open/close the transcript."> <span>View Transcript</span><br> </h2> </summary> <p> 00:00:01:05 - 00:00:23:09<br> Tom Haederle<br> Welcome to Advancing Health. In the face of today's multiple challenges, every hospital needs support and buy in for its mission of great care. Storytelling - sharing the right kinds of stories with the right audience at the right time - is a great way to build and maintain that support. This is particularly important for rural hospitals and health systems, most of which have razor-thin operating margins. </p> <p> 00:00:23:12 - 00:00:40:10<br> Tom Haederle<br> In this month's Leadership Dialogue, hosted by the ���������� Association's 2025 Board Chair Tina Freese Decker, we hear more about the importance of advocacy and of all team members participating in telling the hospital story. </p> <p> 00:00:40:13 - 00:01:07:25<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm Tina Freese Decker, president CEO for Corewell Health, and I'm also the board chair for the ���������� Association. Last month we talked about trust and how our hospitals and our health systems can strengthen that trust with our communities and the people that we serve. Our rural hospitals are uniquely positioned to do this, as they are often the largest employers in their towns and communities, and frequently the only local source of care. </p> <p> 00:01:07:27 - 00:01:28:07<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Rural health care is about being a family. We take care of each other in our communities as best as possible, and we're here to provide that care close to home, no matter what headwinds that we all face. I recently had the opportunity to attend the ���������� Association's Rural Conference and you could really feel that sense of family and community in the room. </p> <p> 00:01:28:09 - 00:01:59:15<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> We work in hospitals in red states and blue states all across the country, but we are all focused on the same thing: helping our neighbors in our communities to be healthier. There are some big challenges that are facing real health care, but together with a unified voice, we can get what we need. As I have traveled around our country meeting with the ���������� Association's regional policy boards and visiting the rural hospitals and my health system and others, the number one concern that I have heard from our hospitals, our communities, is access. </p> <p> 00:01:59:18 - 00:02:22:28<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> And that is why it is so integral to the ���������� Association strategy and it is why it is so important that we come together as a field and that we're united as a field, because these challenges that we are facing are real. So today, I am pleased to have a distinguished leader in rural health care with us to talk about how we can all work together to advocate for the needs of our hospitals. </p> <p> 00:02:23:01 - 00:02:45:09<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> I'd like to welcome Lori Wightman. She is the CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, a 108 bed acute care hospital in Sedalia, Missouri. Laura has served in this role since 2019, but even prior to Bothwell, she worked in real health care as the president of Mercy Hospital Ada in Ada, Oklahoma. So, Lori, welcome. Glad you were able to join us today. </p> <p> 00:02:45:15 - 00:02:46:17<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Thank you, Tina. </p> <p> 00:02:46:19 - 00:03:03:20<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> And I wanted to start out with just telling us a little bit about yourself. I know you started your health care career as a nurse and then you made the shift to administration. Can you tell us about yourself and how you see that family aspect in the hospital and the community in our rural areas? </p> <p> 00:03:03:22 - 00:03:30:01<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Sure. Well, my father was a hospital administrator and my mother was a nurse, so I did both. And so it was a natural progression. And I think the foundation that nursing lays gives you all kinds of transferable skills that have been very helpful as I went into hospital administration. My career and dating advice has always been, you can't go wrong with a nurse. </p> <p> 00:03:30:03 - 00:03:57:14<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> And there's certainly served me well. And you talk about that family atmosphere. That is why I continue to choose rural health care. I've done the CEO position in a suburban hospital, and I sat at our senior leadership team meeting and thinking I was the only one on our senior leadership team that even lived in the area that we served. </p> <p> 00:03:57:17 - 00:04:23:24<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Everyone else lived in a different suburb, and I just thought that was strange and disconnected. And, so I returned again then to rural health care because it is like a family. And it's ironic because we just finished revisiting our mission, vision and values. And our new mission statement talks about together we work to provide compassionate and safe care to family, friends, and neighbors. </p> <p> 00:04:23:27 - 00:04:37:07<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Invariably, when I met new employee orientation, a significant number of people were born at the hospital. That's why I love rural. It's like that "Cheers" phenomenon where everyone knows your name. </p> <p> 00:04:37:09 - 00:05:01:02<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Very true. I used to lead a couple of rural hospitals as well. And like you said, even just walking into a rural hospital it feels like family where everyone there knows your name and of course, protect things from a confidentiality and a privacy perspective, but that feeling that we're all in this together. So I love that your mission statement is about together, that you can make an impact on people's health. </p> <p> 00:05:01:05 - 00:05:13:28<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> I described a little bit about what it's like to walk into a rural hospital. Can you share a little bit about what is like to be a rural hospital, what it means in today's environment and why it's such a great place to work? </p> <p> 00:05:14:01 - 00:05:47:06<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Well, in many ways, rural hospitals are uniquely the same as our suburban or urban counterparts. Forty six million people depend on a rural hospital for their care. So we struggle with the same labor shortages, the cost of labor supplies and drugs is rising faster than our reimbursement. We have all of those same struggles. Unique is that family atmosphere, I think. </p> <p> 00:05:47:06 - 00:06:13:26<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> And we have multiple generations working at the hospital. Now, you can't say anything bad about anyone because invariably they're somehow related. Or they were best friends in high school, or they used to be married to each other. So I mean, it's unique in that way. We have the same types of struggles that  our counterparts do. </p> <p> 00:06:13:28 - 00:06:18:03<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> What pressures are you feeling the most acutely right now? </p> <p> 00:06:18:06 - 00:06:47:09<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Well, you take all of those common challenges that I talked about, and you turn up the volume a little bit. Because for us, 78% of our patients and our volume is governmental payers, so 78% of our business, we're getting reimbursed below cost. You can't make that up in volume. So we rely on all of the governmental programs, you know, disproportionate share all of those things. </p> <p> 00:06:47:09 - 00:06:54:22<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> And, 340B is doing exactly for us what it was designed to do, save rural hospitals. </p> <p> 00:06:54:25 - 00:07:11:22<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Those areas are critical that they remain. And so that we can continue to provide that sustainable, high quality care in our communities and all of our communities. 78% being governmental. It's a huge portion of what we do and what we rely on for access and caring for people. </p> <p> 00:07:11:29 - 00:07:23:15<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Right. We are the typical rural hospital. We have razor-thin margins and aging plant of 18 years. </p> <p> 00:07:23:18 - 00:07:31:10<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> So those are challenges that you're trying to navigate right now with all of the other things that happen. And how is your staffing levels going? Are those going okay? </p> <p> 00:07:31:13 - 00:07:55:12<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Have the same labor shortage issues. We still have 22 traveling nurses here, but we have started being very aggressive in a grow your own program. And so as soon as the next month we're going to cut that number in half and then, within six months, we're hoping to have all of contract staff out. </p> <p> 00:07:55:15 - 00:08:02:04<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Is that something that you're most proud of, or is there something else that you want to share that you're most proud of from a rural hospital perspective? </p> <p> 00:08:02:06 - 00:08:29:24<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> I think what I'm most proud of is you get to personally view the impact of your decisions on people. I'm very proud of our all the talented people that we have here, from clinicians to community health workers. All of our physicians get to use all of the things they learned in medical school and residency, because there isn't a lot of subspecialists, so they are working at the top of their license. </p> <p> 00:08:29:26 - 00:08:50:21<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Just several months ago, one of our critical care physicians diagnosed a case of botulism. Now as an old infection control nurse I get very excited about that because I never thought in my career I would see botulism. But it was diagnosed and treated here and the person's doing well. </p> <p> 00:08:50:23 - 00:09:25:27<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Oh, that's wonderful to hear. When you talk about all the different people that are part of health care in rural settings, or also another settings, it's quite amazing to see how many different areas we need to come together to take care of our community. When you think about an even larger scale, from rural hospitals to urban and teaching hospitals and others, how do you think about the whole ecosystem of our field and how we, you know, do we need all of us or and is there a way to form that greater fabric and social connection, or is there something else that we should be doing? </p> <p> 00:09:25:29 - 00:09:50:21<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> We are all very interconnected and I believe we are all needed. And I especially feel that as an independent hospital, not part of a health system, this is my first independent hospital. I rely on my hospital association more than I ever did when I was working for a health system, because it all comes down to relationships. </p> <p> 00:09:50:21 - 00:10:18:13<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> And so how do you develop, how do you get yourself in situations where you are meeting and now working with your partners around the state or the region? Because it comes down to relationships, you really need to know who your neighbors are in terms of other hospitals, who you're referring your patients to and develop that working relationship because it is all interconnected. </p> <p> 00:10:18:13 - 00:10:25:06<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> And we rely on our partners that we refer to, and they rely on us, too. </p> <p> 00:10:25:08 - 00:10:43:23<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> One of the things I heard you say about the Rural Health Conference that the ���������� Association just put on, and the value of the ���������� Association is that we're not alone. And those values of relationships are really critical. So I appreciate that. The ���������� Association also talks a lot about how do we tell the hospital story. </p> <p> 00:10:43:25 - 00:10:55:15<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> So how do you engage in advocacy to make sure we're telling that hospital story so that our legislative leaders and others know the value that we're bringing to the community? </p> <p> 00:10:55:17 - 00:11:22:11<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> Well, we are surrounded by stories. And so the first thing is to always be picking up on what is the story that is surrounding us, and how can we capture that? Because the most effective way is to bring that patient or nurse or physician to the legislator to testify, because they are the most effective way of communicating a message. </p> <p> 00:11:22:18 - 00:11:49:07<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> You know, the suits can go and talk about data, but nothing is more effective than what I call a real person telling their story and how a decision or a potential decision is going to impact them and how it feels. The other thing we do is every October, it's become tradition. We have Advocacy Day with our board, at our board meeting. </p> <p> 00:11:49:09 - 00:12:21:12<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> We invite our state elected officials  - so people representing us at the state capitol - to come to our board meetings. On election years their challengers also come and I invite the hospital association and they all answer two questions: What do you hope to accomplish in the next legislative session, and what do you think might get in the way? That sets the scene for my board to understand that part of their role in governance is advocacy. </p> <p> 00:12:21:14 - 00:12:29:19<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> And so I've had two of my board members...almost every legislative session I go and testify on on some bill. </p> <p> 00:12:29:21 - 00:12:50:01<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> That is really a good idea. Thank you so much for sharing that. Do you have any other final suggestions for us as AHA members, as other hospitals, whether it's rural or urban, that we should think about or do as we think about advocacy and access or also field unity? </p> <p> 00:12:50:03 - 00:13:22:11<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> You know, having been on the board of two different state hospital associations, I get it. You know, sometimes members can be at odds with each other on a given issue. And my advice to AHA would be to play the role of convener, facilitating conversations between members to better understand each other's position. And if a middle ground can't be reached, then that might be an issue that AHA remains neutral on. </p> <p> 00:13:22:14 - 00:13:34:07<br> Lori Wightman, R.N.<br> But there are so many issues where we can agree on and that is very much the role and what all of us depend on AHA to play in advocating. </p> <p> 00:13:34:09 - 00:14:02:15<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> There's a lot that binds us together. Like you said, we're all caring for our neighbors and our communities, and that's the most critical piece of it. And we have to keep that front and center with every decision that we make and every action that we do. Well, Lori, thank you so much for being with us today on this AHA podcast, for sharing your expertise in rural health care and for talking about some new ideas that all of us can take forward to ensure that we're telling the hospital story in the best way possible. </p> <p> 00:14:02:18 - 00:14:21:09<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> So while I know that we have our work ahead of us, I know that I continue to be energized every time I speak with committed and passionate hospital leaders like Lori. Again, appreciate your work that you do every single day for the neighbors and for the people in your community that you serve. We'll be back next month for another Leadership Dialogue conversation. </p> <p> 00:14:21:13 - 00:14:23:01<br> Tina Freese Decker<br> Have a great day. </p> <p> 00:14:23:03 - 00:14:31:13<br> Tom Haederle<br> Thanks for listening to Advancing Health. 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// If the count down is finished, write some text if (distance < 0) { clearInterval(x); document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED"; } }, 1000); <hr /> --><div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-c19a0fc05c5fd9b8d6a61c3d3f482a662a4cde89e184474b731d5e264bc23435 resource-block"> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> </div> </div> </section> </div> <hr> <div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-dec79b846830ad86b9793deb45a6377d54c022c870a4e06f9242edc96b92115f resource-block"> <h2>Previous Leadership Dialogues and Rounds</h2> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-02-24-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-and-building-trust-lynn-hanessian-and-robert" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health and Building Trust with Lynn Hanessian and Robert Trestman, M.D.</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-24T08:21:34-06:00">Feb 24, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-01-27-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-tackling-todays-health-care-challenges-aha-leaders-stacey" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Tackling Today’s Health Care Challenges with AHA Leaders Stacey Hughes and Ashley Thompson</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-01-27T09:40:27-06:00">Jan 27, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-12-16-leadership-dialogue-assessing-health-care-challenges-and-successes-tina-freese-decker" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Assessing Health Care Challenges and Successes With Tina Freese Decker, President and CEO of Corewell Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-12-16T08:16:44-06:00">Dec 16, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-11-18-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-care-innovation-amy-perry-president-and-ceo-banner" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health Care Innovation with Amy Perry, President and CEO of Banner Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-11-18T10:04:06-06:00">Nov 18, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-10-28-leadership-dialogue-value-health-systems-tom-priselac-president-and-ceo-emeritus-cedars-sinai" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — The Value of Health Systems with Tom Priselac, President and CEO Emeritus of Cedars-Sinai </a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-10-28T10:22:11-05:00">Oct 28, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"><a href="/topics/leadership-dialogue">Watch More Leadership Dialogues and Rounds Videos</a></div> </section> </div> <hr></div> .field_featured_image { position: absolute; 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Estes, M.D., headshot banner" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="57d0d6c3-1e0a-42f2-bc89-7b97ff4899b4" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/banner-leadership-rounds-reverse.jpg" width="900" height="400"></p> <hr> <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the tenth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes is joined by Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>This Leadership Rounds was recorded on Thursday, December 3, 2020.</p> <hr> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9ff7062e-4a9e-4e87-ae6a-eac5b8836497" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/zangerle.jpg" width="223" height="312" class="align-left">Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN</h3> <h4>Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN)</h4> <p>Claire Zangerle is the Chief Nurse Executive for Allegheny Health Network, responsible for the practice of nursing across the continuum.</p> <p>As a member of executive leadership, she supports and facilitates the patient-centered care delivery model by creating an environment that promotes high quality and consistency in the standard of practice across all AHN facilities and clinics. She serves as the executive nursing voice of AHN’s more than 3,000 nurses.</p> <p>Before coming to AHN in 2016, Dr. Zangerle had been the CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Ohio, where she led the state’s largest independent non-profit home health and hospice provider. Prior to the VNA, she served in various capacities at the Cleveland Clinic including Chief Nursing Officer and Chair of the Nursing Institute, Director of Quality and Accreditation, and Director of Preventive Cardiology.</p> <p>She began her nursing career at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston in cardiothoracic surgery and trauma, and while a nursing student served as a nursing assistant in coronary care at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.</p> <p>She earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology from Texas A&M University, an Associate Degree in Nursing from Houston Baptist University, a Master of Business Administration from Lake Erie College, a Master of Science in Nursing from Kent State University, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Texas Christian University.</p> <p>In 2017, Dr. Zangerle was elected to the ���������� Association’s Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2018. She serves as President of Southwest Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders and is a board member of the Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Nursing Management, coordinating the “Transitions of Care” column.</p> <p>She also serves on the board of the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania, Robert Morris University College of Nursing and Sciences Board of Visitors and United Way Women’s Leadership Council of Pittsburgh. She is a former board member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, where she now serves on the Chief Nurse Executive Committee.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <h4>The Next Leadership Rounds Live Stream Begins In:</h4> <h2 id="demo"> </h2> </div> // Set the date we're counting down to var countDownDate = new Date("Sep 10, 2020 15:30:00").getTime(); // Update the count down every 1 second var x = setInterval(function() { // Get today's date and time var now = new Date().getTime(); // Find the distance between now and the count down date var distance = countDownDate - now; // Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds var days = Math.floor(distance / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)); var hours = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) / (1000 * 60 * 60)); var minutes = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60)); var seconds = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) / 1000); // Display the result in the element with id="demo" document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = days + "d " + hours + "h " + minutes + "m " + seconds + "s "; // If the count down is finished, write some text if (distance < 0) { clearInterval(x); document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED"; } }, 1000); <hr /> --><div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-568191595f187b3eeb8ba0831658f925fd3258db01f266864d88e50bbf36171c resource-block"> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> </div> </div> </section> </div> <hr> <div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-8f6222489eb58ef41df374d7dab03707ff22ff427b2c75c9ad1501b3b53c1ce7 resource-block"> <h2>Previous Leadership Dialogues and Rounds</h2> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-02-24-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-and-building-trust-lynn-hanessian-and-robert" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health and Building Trust with Lynn Hanessian and Robert Trestman, M.D.</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-24T08:21:34-06:00">Feb 24, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-01-27-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-tackling-todays-health-care-challenges-aha-leaders-stacey" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Tackling Today’s Health Care Challenges with AHA Leaders Stacey Hughes and Ashley Thompson</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-01-27T09:40:27-06:00">Jan 27, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-12-16-leadership-dialogue-assessing-health-care-challenges-and-successes-tina-freese-decker" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Assessing Health Care Challenges and Successes With Tina Freese Decker, President and CEO of Corewell Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-12-16T08:16:44-06:00">Dec 16, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-11-18-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-care-innovation-amy-perry-president-and-ceo-banner" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health Care Innovation with Amy Perry, President and CEO of Banner Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-11-18T10:04:06-06:00">Nov 18, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-10-28-leadership-dialogue-value-health-systems-tom-priselac-president-and-ceo-emeritus-cedars-sinai" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — The Value of Health Systems with Tom Priselac, President and CEO Emeritus of Cedars-Sinai </a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-10-28T10:22:11-05:00">Oct 28, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"><a href="/topics/leadership-dialogue">Watch More Leadership Dialogues and Rounds Videos</a></div> </section> </div> <hr></div> .field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } </div> </div> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:50:01 -0600 Leadership Rounds /education-events/leadership-rounds-dr-mindy-estes-and-dr-rodney-f-hochman-december-17 <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the eleventh in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes will be joined by Rodney F. Hochman, M.D., President and CEO, Providence St. Joseph Health and Chair Elect Designate of the AHA, to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>Watch the live stream on Thursday, December 17, at 3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. CT/12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. PT, and come back to listen to the podcast and hear more.</p> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Rodney F. Hochman, M.D., President and CEO, Providence St. Joseph Health and incoming AHA Board Chair headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7b8bb8e1-197d-4393-81f3-b59a1995ee03" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/hochman_portrait.jpg" width="333" height="500" class="align-left">Rodney F. Hochman, M.D.</h3> <h4>President and CEO, Providence St. Joseph Health and incoming AHA Board Chair</h4> <p>Rod Hochman, M.D., is the president and CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health, a Catholic not-for-profit health system. PSJH has served the Western U.S. for more than 165 years and together include 119,000 caregivers who serve in 51 hospitals, nearly 1,000 clinics and hundreds of programs and services in Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Under Rod’s leadership, Providence St. Joseph Health is transforming health care for the future through digital innovation, population health, mental health, genomics, whole person care and outreach to the poor and vulnerable.</p> <p>He is the chair elect designate for the ���������� Association (AHA), chair of AHA's Regional Policy Board 9 and past chair of the board of trustees for the Catholic Health Association. He is the 2019 recipient of the Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award by the National Center on Healthcare Leadership. He tied for second place in Modern Healthcare's most influential person's in health care ranking in 2018 and was named one of Modern Healthcare's 12 disruptors. He was also named the 2015 Innovator of the Year by Press Ganey and the 2017 Partners in Care Foundation Vision and Excellence in Health Care Leadership Award. Rod is actively involved in Providence Health International and has traveled to Guatemala to strengthen Providence St. Joseph Health’s local relationships to continue to improve the health of Guatemalan communities in a sustainable way. He is passionate about drawing on the diverse resources and talents of Providence St. Joseph Health’s seven-state health system to touch lives wherever relief, comfort and care are needed most.</p> <p>Rod served as a clinical fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. He received his bachelor’s degree and medical degree from Boston University.</p> Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:57:25 -0600 Leadership Rounds /education-events/leadership-rounds-dr-mindy-estes-and-claire-zangerle-rn-december-3 <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the tenth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes will be joined by Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>Watch the live stream on Thursday, December 3, at 3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. CT/12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. PT, and come back to listen to the podcast and hear more.</p> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN, Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9ff7062e-4a9e-4e87-ae6a-eac5b8836497" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/zangerle.jpg" width="223" height="312" class="align-left">Claire Zangerle, MSN, MBA, RN</h3> <h4>Chief Nurse Executive at Allegheny Health Network (AHN)</h4> <p>Claire Zangerle is the Chief Nurse Executive for Allegheny Health Network, responsible for the practice of nursing across the continuum.</p> <p>As a member of executive leadership, she supports and facilitates the patient-centered care delivery model by creating an environment that promotes high quality and consistency in the standard of practice across all AHN facilities and clinics. She serves as the executive nursing voice of AHN’s more than 3,000 nurses.</p> <p>Before coming to AHN in 2016, Dr. Zangerle had been the CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Ohio, where she led the state’s largest independent non-profit home health and hospice provider. Prior to the VNA, she served in various capacities at the Cleveland Clinic including Chief Nursing Officer and Chair of the Nursing Institute, Director of Quality and Accreditation, and Director of Preventive Cardiology.</p> <p>She began her nursing career at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston in cardiothoracic surgery and trauma, and while a nursing student served as a nursing assistant in coronary care at The Methodist Hospital in Houston.</p> <p>She earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology from Texas A&M University, an Associate Degree in Nursing from Houston Baptist University, a Master of Business Administration from Lake Erie College, a Master of Science in Nursing from Kent State University, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Texas Christian University.</p> <p>In 2017, Dr. Zangerle was elected to the ���������� Association’s Board of Trustees for a three-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2018. She serves as President of Southwest Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders and is a board member of the Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Nursing Management, coordinating the “Transitions of Care” column.</p> <p>She also serves on the board of the Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania, Robert Morris University College of Nursing and Sciences Board of Visitors and United Way Women’s Leadership Council of Pittsburgh. She is a former board member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, where she now serves on the Chief Nurse Executive Committee.</p> Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:25:13 -0600 Leadership Rounds /leadership-rounds/2020-12-03-leadership-rounds-dr-mindy-estes-and <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <p><img alt="Leadership Rounds logo and Melinda L. Estes, M.D., headshot banner" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="57d0d6c3-1e0a-42f2-bc89-7b97ff4899b4" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/banner-leadership-rounds-reverse.jpg" width="900" height="400"></p> <hr> <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the ninth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes is joined by Sarah Krevans, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Health, to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>This Leadership Rounds was recorded on Thursday, November 19, 2020.</p> <hr> <hr> <p></p> <div><a href="https://soundcloud.com/advancinghealth" target="_blank" title="Advancing Health">Advancing Health</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/advancinghealth/leadership-rounds-with-sarah-krevans" target="_blank" title="Leadership Rounds With Sarah Krevans">Leadership Rounds With Sarah Krevans</a></div> <p> </p> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Sarah Krevans headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="8ed4e628-271b-43e3-ab3c-68608fe8906f" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/sarah-krevans-200x300.jpg" width="200" height="300" class="align-left">Sarah Krevans</h3> <h4>President and Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Health</h4> <p>As president and CEO of Sutter Health, Sarah Krevans leads the network’s 24 hospitals, 53,000 employees, 14,000 clinicians, outpatient services, research facilities, home health and hospice care services, and business professionals. Under her guidance, Sutter Health is exploring new technologies and embracing creative, community-based healthcare programs to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, efficient and convenient for more than 3 million patients.</p> <p>Recognizing her outstanding leadership, Krevans was named one of the “Top 25 Women Leaders” by <em>Modern Healthcare,</em> included on <em>Modern Healthcare’s</em> list of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare,” nominated as a “Visionary of the Year” by the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> and named one of the “Most Influential Women in Business” by the <em>San Francisco Business Times.</em></p> <p>She received her bachelor’s degree from Boston University, and earned an MBA and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <h4>The Next Leadership Rounds Live Stream Begins In:</h4> <h2 id="demo"> </h2> </div> // Set the date we're counting down to var countDownDate = new Date("Sep 10, 2020 15:30:00").getTime(); // Update the count down every 1 second var x = setInterval(function() { // Get today's date and time var now = new Date().getTime(); // Find the distance between now and the count down date var distance = countDownDate - now; // Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds var days = Math.floor(distance / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)); var hours = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) / (1000 * 60 * 60)); var minutes = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60)); var seconds = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) / 1000); // Display the result in the element with id="demo" document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = days + "d " + hours + "h " + minutes + "m " + seconds + "s "; // If the count down is finished, write some text if (distance < 0) { clearInterval(x); document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED"; } }, 1000); <hr /> --><div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-3881ce467f65024e73c699e8dcdfb56f3769b26dd2865a63a4dc378053be812d resource-block"> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> </div> </div> </section> </div> <hr> <div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-185c071d2b0edffa8ac8982da74b3846ba82db526a687addc4e73725ff14e864 resource-block"> <h2>Previous Leadership Dialogues and Rounds</h2> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-02-24-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-and-building-trust-lynn-hanessian-and-robert" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health and Building Trust with Lynn Hanessian and Robert Trestman, M.D.</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-24T08:21:34-06:00">Feb 24, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-01-27-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-tackling-todays-health-care-challenges-aha-leaders-stacey" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Tackling Today’s Health Care Challenges with AHA Leaders Stacey Hughes and Ashley Thompson</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-01-27T09:40:27-06:00">Jan 27, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-12-16-leadership-dialogue-assessing-health-care-challenges-and-successes-tina-freese-decker" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Assessing Health Care Challenges and Successes With Tina Freese Decker, President and CEO of Corewell Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-12-16T08:16:44-06:00">Dec 16, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-11-18-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-care-innovation-amy-perry-president-and-ceo-banner" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health Care Innovation with Amy Perry, President and CEO of Banner Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-11-18T10:04:06-06:00">Nov 18, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-10-28-leadership-dialogue-value-health-systems-tom-priselac-president-and-ceo-emeritus-cedars-sinai" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — The Value of Health Systems with Tom Priselac, President and CEO Emeritus of Cedars-Sinai </a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-10-28T10:22:11-05:00">Oct 28, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"><a href="/topics/leadership-dialogue">Watch More Leadership Dialogues and Rounds Videos</a></div> </section> </div> <hr></div> .field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } </div> </div> Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:58:02 -0600 Leadership Rounds /education-events/leadership-rounds-dr-mindy-estes-and-sarah-krevans-november-19 <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the ninth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes will be joined by Sarah Krevans, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Health, to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>Watch the live stream on Thursday, November 19, at 3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. CT/12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. PT, and come back to listen to the podcast and hear more.</p> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Sarah Krevans headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="8ed4e628-271b-43e3-ab3c-68608fe8906f" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/sarah-krevans-200x300.jpg" width="200" height="300" class="align-left">Sarah Krevans</h3> <h4>President and Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Health</h4> <p>As president and CEO of Sutter Health, Sarah Krevans leads the network’s 24 hospitals, 53,000 employees, 14,000 clinicians, outpatient services, research facilities, home health and hospice care services, and business professionals. Under her guidance, Sutter Health is exploring new technologies and embracing creative, community-based healthcare programs to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, efficient and convenient for more than 3 million patients.</p> <p>Recognizing her outstanding leadership, Krevans was named one of the “Top 25 Women Leaders” by <em>Modern Healthcare,</em> included on <em>Modern Healthcare’s</em> list of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare,” nominated as a “Visionary of the Year” by the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> and named one of the “Most Influential Women in Business” by the <em>San Francisco Business Times.</em></p> <p>She received her bachelor’s degree from Boston University, and earned an MBA and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.</p> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:45:30 -0600 Leadership Rounds /leadership-rounds/2020-11-05-leadership-rounds-dr-mindy-estes-and-kevin-w-sowers <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <p><img alt="Leadership Rounds logo and Melinda L. Estes, M.D., headshot banner" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="57d0d6c3-1e0a-42f2-bc89-7b97ff4899b4" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/banner-leadership-rounds-reverse.jpg" width="900" height="400"></p> <hr> <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the eighth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes was be joined by Kevin W. Sowers, President of the Johns Hopkins Health System and Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>This live stream was originally recorded on November 5, 2020.</p> <hr> <hr> <p></p> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Kevin W. Sowers headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3312d04d-01c3-4357-890a-abb78ba80bc5" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/SOWERS%20kevin_Approved-3.jpg" width="1728" height="2592" class="align-left">Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N.</h3> <h4>President of the Johns Hopkins Health System; Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine</h4> <p>Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N., is president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine.</p> <p>As the second person in Johns Hopkins history to hold these dual roles, Mr. Sowers oversees the health system’s six hospitals – The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital, Suburban Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital – and sets strategies that advance our mission to deliver outstanding care, train the next generation of leaders and advance research and discovery. He also serves as chair of Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, which has more than 40 primary and specialty care outpatient sites throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area.</p> <p>Mr. Sowers came to Johns Hopkins Medicine after 32 years with the Duke University Health System, the last eight as president and CEO of Duke University Hospital.</p> <p>He joined Duke University Medical Center Hospital in 1985 as a staff nurse in oncology and held several faculty and nursing leadership positions. His numerous senior leadership posts across the Duke University Health System included chief operating officer for Duke University Hospital and interim CEO for Durham Regional Hospital. Among his senior administrative roles, Mr. Sowers oversaw consolidation of Duke’s clinical lab services, emergency and trauma services, and managed care and patient care services.</p> <p>Active in many professional and community organizations, Mr. Sowers is a member of the Vizient board of directors and the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems administrative board. He served as chair of the AmSurg board and was a member of the North Carolina Hospital Association board of trustees and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine board of directors. He also held leadership roles with the American Heart Association, Susan G. Komen and the Oncology Nursing Society.</p> <p>Sowers earned his bachelor of science degree from Capital University School of Nursing and a master of science from Duke University School of Nursing. He is an American Academy of Nursing fellow and has collaborated on numerous research efforts as well as consulted internationally. He has published extensively and speaks nationally and abroad on issues such as leadership, organizational change, mentorship and cancer care.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <h4>The Next Leadership Rounds Live Stream Begins In:</h4> <h2 id="demo"> </h2> </div> // Set the date we're counting down to var countDownDate = new Date("Sep 10, 2020 15:30:00").getTime(); // Update the count down every 1 second var x = setInterval(function() { // Get today's date and time var now = new Date().getTime(); // Find the distance between now and the count down date var distance = countDownDate - now; // Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds var days = Math.floor(distance / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)); var hours = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) / (1000 * 60 * 60)); var minutes = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60)); var seconds = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) / 1000); // Display the result in the element with id="demo" document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = days + "d " + hours + "h " + minutes + "m " + seconds + "s "; // If the count down is finished, write some text if (distance < 0) { clearInterval(x); document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED"; } }, 1000); <hr /> --><div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-37e1ed7c88c171e067bb09d24bb2ebaae67f10718c463c7f9df654bb6b5ffec8 resource-block"> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> </div> </div> </section> </div> <hr> <div class="views-element-container"> <section class="top-level-view js-view-dom-id-1ee40874df1de69df66d599ea417290c9999af0b52b230bfc42495b74fff18f0 resource-block"> <h2>Previous Leadership Dialogues and Rounds</h2> <div class="resource-wrapper"> <div class="resource-view"> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-02-24-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-and-building-trust-lynn-hanessian-and-robert" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health and Building Trust with Lynn Hanessian and Robert Trestman, M.D.</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-24T08:21:34-06:00">Feb 24, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2025-01-27-chair-file-leadership-dialogue-tackling-todays-health-care-challenges-aha-leaders-stacey" hreflang="en">Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Tackling Today’s Health Care Challenges with AHA Leaders Stacey Hughes and Ashley Thompson</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-01-27T09:40:27-06:00">Jan 27, 2025</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-12-16-leadership-dialogue-assessing-health-care-challenges-and-successes-tina-freese-decker" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Assessing Health Care Challenges and Successes With Tina Freese Decker, President and CEO of Corewell Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-12-16T08:16:44-06:00">Dec 16, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-11-18-leadership-dialogue-advancing-health-care-innovation-amy-perry-president-and-ceo-banner" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — Advancing Health Care Innovation with Amy Perry, President and CEO of Banner Health</a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-11-18T10:04:06-06:00">Nov 18, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> <div class="article views-row"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/news/chairpersons-file/2024-10-28-leadership-dialogue-value-health-systems-tom-priselac-president-and-ceo-emeritus-cedars-sinai" hreflang="en">Leadership Dialogue — The Value of Health Systems with Tom Priselac, President and CEO Emeritus of Cedars-Sinai </a></span> </div><div class="views-field views-field-created"> <span class="field-content"><time datetime="2024-10-28T10:22:11-05:00">Oct 28, 2024</time> </span> </div></div> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"><a href="/topics/leadership-dialogue">Watch More Leadership Dialogues and Rounds Videos</a></div> </section> </div> <hr></div> .field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } </div> </div> Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:31:00 -0600 Leadership Rounds /education-events/leadership-rounds-dr-mindy-estes-and-kevin-w-sowers-november-5 <p>Please join AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., for the eighth in a series of Leadership Rounds — short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.</p> <p>Dr. Estes will be joined by Kevin W. Sowers, President of the Johns Hopkins Health System and Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss how hospitals can move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.</p> <p>Watch the live stream on Thursday, November 5, at 3:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. CT/12:30 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. PT, and come back to listen to the podcast and hear more.</p> <hr> <h2>Joining Dr. Estes on Her Rounds</h2> <h3><img alt="Kevin W. Sowers headshot" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3312d04d-01c3-4357-890a-abb78ba80bc5" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/SOWERS%20kevin_Approved-3.jpg" width="1728" height="2592" class="align-left">Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N.</h3> <h4>President of the Johns Hopkins Health System; Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine</h4> <p>Kevin W. Sowers, M.S.N., R.N., F.A.A.N., is president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine.</p> <p>As the second person in Johns Hopkins history to hold these dual roles, Mr. Sowers oversees the health system’s six hospitals – The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital, Suburban Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital – and sets strategies that advance our mission to deliver outstanding care, train the next generation of leaders and advance research and discovery. He also serves as chair of Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, which has more than 40 primary and specialty care outpatient sites throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area.</p> <p>Mr. Sowers came to Johns Hopkins Medicine after 32 years with the Duke University Health System, the last eight as president and CEO of Duke University Hospital.</p> <p>He joined Duke University Medical Center Hospital in 1985 as a staff nurse in oncology and held several faculty and nursing leadership positions. His numerous senior leadership posts across the Duke University Health System included chief operating officer for Duke University Hospital and interim CEO for Durham Regional Hospital. Among his senior administrative roles, Mr. Sowers oversaw consolidation of Duke’s clinical lab services, emergency and trauma services, and managed care and patient care services.</p> <p>Active in many professional and community organizations, Mr. Sowers is a member of the Vizient board of directors and the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems administrative board. He served as chair of the AmSurg board and was a member of the North Carolina Hospital Association board of trustees and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine board of directors. He also held leadership roles with the American Heart Association, Susan G. Komen and the Oncology Nursing Society.</p> <p>Sowers earned his bachelor of science degree from Capital University School of Nursing and a master of science from Duke University School of Nursing. He is an American Academy of Nursing fellow and has collaborated on numerous research efforts as well as consulted internationally. He has published extensively and speaks nationally and abroad on issues such as leadership, organizational change, mentorship and cancer care.</p> Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:13:46 -0500 Leadership Rounds