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, …
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 …
In a 2012 interview I asked Bruce Lawrence, president and CEO of Oklahoma’s INTEGRIS Health system, to share about some of his organization’s current and future strategies. Lawrence responded, “What comes to mind is the work we’ve been doing to develop a clinical integration network. Basically it’s a way to bring individual physicians to the …
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 …