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Michael Antoniades on Expanding Access and Building an Academic Community Hospital · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  - This is Scott Becker with the Beckers HealthCare
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  - podcast.
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  - I am thrilled today to be joined by
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  - a great and brilliant leader. We're joined today
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  - by Michael Antoniades,
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  - and and Michael serves currently
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  - as the CEO or the president of University
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  - of Chicago Medicine, Ingalls Memorial Hospital,
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  - a terrific person and leader, and so excited
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  - to have him back in the Midwest.
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  - Michael, can you take a moment and introduce
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  - yourself
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  - and tell us a little bit about New
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  - York Chicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital?
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  - Scott, good afternoon. Thank you so much for
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  - giving me another opportunity to have a conversation
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  - with you today. So,
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  - I'm Mike Antoniades.
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  - I'm the president, as you said, of UChicago
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  - Ingalls Memorial.
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  - We are
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  - a southern south suburb of Chicago, about twenty,
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  - twenty five minutes south
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  - of Downtown Chicago.
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  - The hospital has been here for a hundred
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  - and three years, this October.
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  - About ten years ago, almost to the day,
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  - October of this month this year,
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  - we will be celebrating our ten year anniversary
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  - joining the University of Chicago Medicine Health System.
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  - The board both boards approved,
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  - that
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  - acquisition
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  - back in 2016.
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  - And
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  - looking back over the last ten years,
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  - so many great things have happened,
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  - under the umbrella of the University of Chicago
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  - Medicine.
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  - And this hospital today, the the level of
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  - transformation and and the position that we are
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  - sitting in today, how we look at the
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  - future
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  - is really a direct result of that very
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  - important decision and the right decision that was
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  - made,
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  - by both boards
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  - to,
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  - incorporate Ingalls and all of the family care
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  - centers in our ambulatory network under the umbrella
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  - of the UChicago Medicine Health System.
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  - I've been here for three plus years. I
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  - think you and I spoke early on in
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  - my tenure.
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  - This is a very different hospital today than
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  - even,
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  - just a short three years ago,
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  - and it has been a very exciting time
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  - despite some of the headwinds and the challenges
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  - that you know as well as anyone that
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  - we're all facing in the health care industry.
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  - No. Simply remarkable. And and talk a little
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  - bit about
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  - University of Chicago, obviously, is a fantastic institution,
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  - one of the great academic medical centers in
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  - the country. Ingalls Memorial, a fantastic community hospital,
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  - at least traditionally.
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  - Tell us a little bit about what it's
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  - meant to bring these two institutions together, University
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  - of Chicago with Ingalls Memorial. What has that
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  - meant for the community and and for the
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  - hospital?
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  - Yeah. I think when you look at the
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  - last few years,
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  - anytime
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  - when you have an opportunity
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  - to bring the level of academic medicine,
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  - to bring the level of expertise that exists
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  - in,
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  - a place like the University of Chicago Medical
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  - Center, which is among the best in the
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  - world. Right? This is beyond just the national,
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  - forum that we're talking about.
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  - Anytime that you can make a direct connection
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  - between
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  - an organization
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  - like the University of Chicago Medical Center, other
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  - than a community
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  - like in Harvey in the Southland Of Chicago,
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  - it's a win
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  - for everyone who lives and gets cared for
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  - in this in community. We've added programs.
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  - We've added
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  - direct connection to clinical trials.
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  - We are bringing
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  - education
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  - right here in this community,
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  - because of that connection
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  - and the partnership and the oversight of the
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  - University of Chicago Health System. It opens up
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  - doors
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  - for people in this community, which is a
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  - challenge community, as you know,
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  - to get
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  - access to care
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  - that many folks in the past wouldn't be
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  - able to get. That's what the University of
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  - Chicago Health System brought to this community, direct
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  - access to some of the best care in
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  - the country
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  - through the doors of Ingalls Memorial.
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  - It's simply remarkable. Talk a bit, Michael. What
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  - are you most focused on and excited about
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  - as we get to the second half of
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  - this year and into next year? And people
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  - might not know this, but where you're at
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  - is White Sox territory.
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  - Are people also excited about the White Sox?
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  - Oh, they sure are. Now I I must
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  - admit,
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  - I am not a White Sox or a
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  - Cubs fan because I do come from the
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  - East Coast. So I am a suffering,
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  - a very expensively suffering Mets fan.
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  - But I will tell you, this Southland
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  - loves their White Sox. That was pretty clear
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  - to me. It was one of the very
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  - early questions I asked in every meeting where
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  - I used to go to. If you're a
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  - White Sox fan, raise your hand. If you're
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  - not a White Sox fan, please keep your
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  - hand down because the room is divided.
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  - It's great to see
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  - the White Sox playing some really great winning
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  - baseball. I think they just did a trade
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  - also with the Mets for a reliever.
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  - It's a
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  - the fan base is very similar to the
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  - Mets. They're not the
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  - primary club like the New York Yankees are
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  - in New York and the Cubbies are in
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  - Chicago,
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  - but the passion to win and the passion
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  - to support their team
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  - never leaves. It's so resilient. So I'm really
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  - happy to see the White Sox fans around
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  - here,
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  - getting to see a great team, especially after
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  - a tough few years.
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  - You know, it's it's it's really true. It's
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  - really remarkable turnaround that many of us did
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  - not see coming, and the manager's fantastic. They
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  - got a lot of talent on the team.
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  - Talk a bit about what you're most focused
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  - and excited about as we get into the
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  - last half of this year and also the
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  - next year.
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  - Yeah. So we have a lot of really
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  - big things happening here at Ingalls.
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  - By some time
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  - well, by July of next year, we will
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  - be introducing
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  - a brand new
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  - family medicine residency,
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  - which has been now two plus years in
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  - the making
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  - under the umbrella of the graduate medical education
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  - office of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School
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  - of Medicine.
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  - And we are working through getting approval,
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  - from the American College of Graduate Medical Education
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  - for also an internal medicine residency. So if
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  - that approval comes to us in the next
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  - couple of months,
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  - we will be introducing a brand new residency
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  - for primary care,
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  - right here in Ingles.
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  - And over the next three years after that,
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  - we will build up this residency.
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  - At the same time, we just started,
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  - a partnership rotation program with the department of
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  - surgery
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  - and the department of orthopedics
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  - from Hyde Park. And so we are converting
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  - this community hospital into a really academic driven
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  - community hospital, which will elevate the care and
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  - the access of care that we provide this
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  - institution.
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  - In addition to that, we have a lot
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  - of expansions that are being planned. We just
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  - completed
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  - our strategic plan, which connects directly to the
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  - overall system strategic plan,
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  - to refer to as Elevate 2035.
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  - We have built out a very robust investment
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  - that's gonna come in the form of multiple
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  - different service lines here in Harvey and across
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  - all of the Southland
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  - where we have a presence,
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  - currently. We're gonna be introducing a lot of
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  - growth in many programs like cancer behavioral health,
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  - inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab and physical therapy,
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  - maternal
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  - health services,
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  - GYN surgical oncology. So there's there's a lot
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  - of exciting investments
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  - that are taking place
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  - over the next six to twelve months and
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  - probably the next two to three years. Some
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  - of it will be
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  - physical investments, like the expansion of the emergency
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  - department,
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  - expand the expansion of our behavioral health unit,
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  - and also the expansion of our inpatient rehab
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  - hospital. These are all
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  - currently
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  - being activated,
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  - after the recent approval
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  - from the health system and the board,
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  - for these investments. So we're really excited. It's
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  - a busy time. Despite some of the headwinds,
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  - there's a lot to be proud of and
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  - a lot to be excited about if you're
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  - joining us.
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  - That that's remarkable.
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  - Take a moment on sort of you've had
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  - this great leadership career.
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  - A little bit of advice. What advice would
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  - you give to emerging leaders, Michael?
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  - Be patient with your careers
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  - and be very intentional
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  - in how you approach
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  - your everyday
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  - and what you do.
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  - I often see, you know, managers in their
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  - early part of their careers as they're developing
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  - their leadership skills.
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  - They tend to just wanna rush into things
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  - without having all the experiences.
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  - So be intentional about learning
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  - and developing your leadership skills just like you're
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  - intentional about the work that you do, and
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  - have a little patience. You know, experience is
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  - hard to gain
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  - without putting in the time and experiencing the
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  - different aspects
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  - that we all need to experience to develop
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  - our leadership skills because leadership is a learned
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  - muscle. That's the foundation of what you and
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  - I talked about last week. It's it's the
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  - it's it's a learned muscle that needs to
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  - be trained. And the more that you expose
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  - it to, the stronger that it will be
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  - and the stronger that it will be to
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  - guide your career
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  - and your leadership,
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  - legacy.
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  - Thank you very, very much. And and, Mike,
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  - anything else you'd like to share with the
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  - audience today about the great work you're doing
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  - at Ingalls Memorial?
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  - No. I'm I'm very fortunate to be able
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  - to share the news about Ingalls. But, really,
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  - I'm the spokesperson of an incredible team, an
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  - incredible team of talented leaders across this entire
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  - organization,
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  - an incredible medical staff, an incredible committed
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  - faculty from the academic medical center as well
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  - as here in our in our own medical
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  - staff
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  - that are so resilient and so committed to
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  - our mission.
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  - It it it makes work a lot of
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  - fun, and it's why we're able to have
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  - some of the success that we've had, and
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  - we intend to continue that.
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  - Michael Antoniades,
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  - what a pleasure to visit with you always,
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  - one of the great leaders of our time.
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  - Thank you so much for taking the time
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  - with us on the Becker Salted Care podcast
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  - and sharing a little bit with us of
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  - the Harvey, the Ingalls Memorial story, and also
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  - a little positivity about Chicago White Sox. God
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  - bless you. Thank you very, very much.
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  - Thank you, Scott. Thank you as always.