Nicholas Jacobs, President and CEO, Windber Medical Center
Over the past thirty-five years I have met so many great healthcare leaders. I will avoid mentioning twenty or thirty of them because I would be neglecting twenty or thirty others. Some of these great leaders have been close working partners; others have been ruthless competitors. Some have [...]

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In all the years I have served healthcare organizations, I have always been perplexed by hospitals that thrive against all odds and others that wither with clinical and financial resources that would suggest otherwise.
Recently, I met two relatively young brothers who have been extremely successful in business. They own or are partnered with businesses I [...]

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Our firm normally gets called two or three years after the client hospital or health system needs help. These hospitals are normally “in the financial ditch” and require admission into our consulting intensive care unit. Explicit poor management is not difficult to detect. These hospitals have been losing money month after month and/or the leadership [...]

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Born in 1946, and without any input into the decision to join planet earth, and without my knowledge, I joined the ranks of the first year of baby boomers. Not to bore you with my biography, I have spent most of my working years as a CEO of U.S. hospitals . . . four to [...]

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