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Scott Becker - 8 Stories Shaping the Healthcare Landscape Today 3-12-26 · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  A special thank you to ECG
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  And thank you for listening to the Becker's
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  health care podcast. Thank you to ECG management
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  consultants.
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  This is Scott Becker with the Becker's health
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  care podcast.
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  We're gonna quickly walk through
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  about eight stories that we're currently following in
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  health care that tell part of the story
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  of where health care is at and also
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  get some highlights, and some news in health
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  care environment.
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  First, Tennessee
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  approves a $900,000,000
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  hospital for Regional One Health. So Regional One
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  Health will bill be building a new hospital.
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  And, again, this is, again, the story of
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  health care in America right now. 60% of
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  health systems have some margin, 40% do not.
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  It is that 60% that's able to build
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  and do some of the things that are
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  needed to be done
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  like this. So congratulations to regional one health,
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  but it also tells a deeper story of
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  haves and have nots in health care.
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  Second, Kellie Gooch reports on the increasing complexity
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  of the role of the chief operating officer.
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  Many of us view the chief operating officer
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  role as very, very important. Some places have
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  tried to lean that out. We think that's
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  largely a mistake.
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  Third, there's news of a deal.
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  Lumina Healthcare joins ECG Management Consultants. ECG Management
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  Consultants is is really a phenomenal
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  leading consulting firm, often working with academic medical
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  centers and a lot a lot of other
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  types of health systems and hospitals and and
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  providers.
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  Matt Gevinson firm, Lumen Healthcare joins ECG Management
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  Consultants. Fourth,
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  Jeffrey Flax, the great CEO at Hartford HealthCare
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  says that it's really the best time to
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  be in health care with all the challenges,
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  all the things that are going on.
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  Jeff Hampstead, a remarkable
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  leader, a great article where he talks about
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  being the best time to be in health
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  care even though there are so many challenges
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  in health care. He and his predecessor and
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  the whole entire Hartford Health Care team have
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  built a tremendous system at Hartford HealthCare.
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  Fifth, Fitch upgrades
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  University of Colorado Health's rating to double a
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  plus.
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  That's University of Colorado Health. That's a terrific
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  upgrade, very positive news.
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  Sixth,
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  SWOT today, the announcement that Mark Clement,
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  the brilliant leader at TriHealth, will retire at
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  the end of this fiscal year.
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  Again,
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  TriHealth, a great system. Mark Clement's been there
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  for eleven years. He's just done a fantastic
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  job.
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  Another leader from the system is taking over
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  that role, also a fantastic leader. So that
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  that's sixth with with the TriHealth system.
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  Seventh, a judge orders the LeapFrog group
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  to remove grades from several hospitals,
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  saying that the methodology they used wasn't fair
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  to hospitals. In fact, what they did in
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  some places was if possible didn't respond, they
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  got negative ratings,
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  which isn't really fair because you don't really
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  know how that hospital would have done on
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  those different stats and so forth. Finally, eighth,
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  one of the highlights of my week was
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  having a good chance to hear an interview
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  by Michelin Davis of National Medical Fellowships of
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  doctor Kelvin Wheeler.
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  Doctor Kevin Wheeler is about an 80 year
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  old pediatric
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  physician at Kaiser Permanente.
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  The interview that I had a chance to
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  be at in person for National Medical Fellowships,
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  where I serve on the board,
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  discussed doctor Wheeler's
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  history in growing up in a segregated world
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  and becoming a doctor.
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  It was a tremendously inspiring
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  and awesome discussion
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  with Doctor. Wheeler, who's this just remarkable
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  physician leader,
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  about his history
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  of growing up and becoming a leading physician
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  in the country. Just a remarkable story of
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  living through segregation,
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  in the fifties and sixties, you know, and
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  still with us now to so brilliantly
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  and eloquently tell the story of of his
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  career and his profession.
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  So that was that was the highlight of
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  of of my week. And in in any
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  event, these are eight of the stories that
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  we're following today at Becker's Healthcare. Thank you
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  so much for listening to the Becker's Healthcare
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  podcast.