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 …
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 …
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 …
Senior healthcare executive Bruce Lawrence has enjoyed a long and successful career spanning more than three decades in healthcare leadership. Over the course of his career he has had the privilege of serving in executive roles in major health systems including the Baptist Health System in Little Rock, Arkansas, Baptist Health in Montgomery, Alabama, and …
AHL founder and CEO Dan Nielsen posed this question: “Based on your experience and success as a healthcare leader, what 2 or 3 pieces of advice would you give a junior executive who aspires to be a hospital or healthcare provider CEO or senior executive?” Traci’s first response was immediate, passionate, and based on significant personal and …
Virtually nothing is more important to healthcare provider leadership than physician relationships. Unfortunately, a significant number of healthcare leaders do not reach their full potential due to physician relationships. Other healthcare leaders enjoy great success, in large part due to their excellent physician relationships. It has been my observation and personal experience that the more …
Traci Bernard, president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Southlake, Texas, is passionate and totally committed to her role and responsibilities as a healthcare leader. She has held her current position since 2005, and previously served as vice president of operations at Baylor Regional Medical Center in Grapevine, Texas for about eight years. Traci …
Jim Wetrich, current president and CEO of The Wetrich Group LLC, and former president and General Manager, The Americas at Mölnlycke Health Care, earned a Master of Health Administration from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 1982. He also earned an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta in 2009. Jim graduated number …
In 2012 I had the privilege of interviewing Jim Wetrich, who was then the president and General Manager of The Americas at Mölnlycke Health Care (now president & CEO, The Wetrich Group LLC). During the interview, Jim graciously shared some of his insights and perspectives in response to a wide-range of interview questions. Below are …