Peter Fine acknowledges with understandable and appropriate pride that Banner Health has come a long way since he first came on board. Fine has been serving as president and CEO since he was hired in November 2000 to bring vision, focused effectiveness and change to the struggling organization. The health system is now a focused, …
Banner Health was in need of a strong, energetic, visionary leader when Peter Fine arrived on scene in November 2000 as the new president and CEO. In the years since, Fine has very effectively led Banner Health’s transformation into a nationally recognized clinical-quality powerhouse. This Phoenix-based health system is now one of the largest nonprofit, …
Twenty-five years is a long time to serve in one position at one organization. Twenty-five years as president and CEO of a healthcare provider is even more impressive. For Ben McKibbens, that organization was Valley Baptist Medical Center and Health System in southern Texas. During a 2012 interview, this long-tenured senior healthcare leader reflected on …
When asked what values and strategies he considered most essential to healthcare organizations and healthcare leadership, Ben McKibbens, who served as the president and CEO of the Valley Baptist Health System for 25 years, offered some great perspectives: “The first thing that came to my mind was to make sure the mission statement of the organization …
During Ben McKibbens’ 25-year tenure at Valley Baptist Health System, the organization experienced unprecedented growth. Though McKibbens is now retired, timeless insights and wisdom for current and future healthcare leaders can still be learned from this highly successful senior healthcare leader. When asked what insights and suggestions he would offer to current and future healthcare …
Ben McKibbens served as the president and CEO of the Valley Baptist Health System in Harlingen, Texas for 25 years! The average tenure of hospital CEOs is less than 5 years. After 25 remarkable years at the helm of this South Texas health system, McKibbens has learned a thing or two about healthcare leadership. An alumnus …
When asked to reflect on his forty-three year tenure at Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Maynard Oliverius summed it up in one brief sentence: “On balance, I’ve had a great career.” Oliverius served as president and CEO for the last sixteen of his forty-three years with the organization in Topeka, Kansas, and just retired in June 2012. In …
Throughout his impressive 43-year career at Stormont-Vail HealthCare, Maynard Oliverius demonstrated passion and commitment to the challenging field of healthcare leadership. At my request, Oliverius shared some key factors that he attributes to his successful leadership and tenure: “Maintain integrity and trust, maintain a strong partnership with the board, maintain high visibility and involvement with …
Maynard Oliverius retired after forty-three years of service at Stormont-Vail Healthcare in Topeka, Kansas. That is not a misprint… Oliverius was with Stormont-Vail for 43 years! He served the last sixteen years of his remarkably long career within that one healthcare organization as the president and CEO. During a 2012 interview, Oliverius reflected on his long tenure, saying, “On …
Mark Dixon, president of the Mark Dixon Group, LLC, shared with me his passion for the field of healthcare and his thoughts about the impact that it can have on a community; “The fruits of our labor are just so amazing for people, they allow us to actually improve those communities that we work in …
The standards we hold ourselves to in our personal lives most certainly bleed over into our professional lives, and vice versa. With that in mind, I asked senior healthcare leader Mark Dixon what his personal mission is in life; after giving it some thought, Dixon responded, “I wasn’t sure I had a personal mission, but …
I had the privilege of spending a fascinating hour interviewing Mark Dixon, president of the Mark Dixon Group, LLC, who has enjoyed nearly four decades as a senior healthcare leader in organizations including Allina Health System, Community Health Network of Indianapolis, and Fairview Health Services. During our interview, Dixon shared some of his experiences as …