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Bill Dinsmoor, CEO of the clinical enterprise | Brad Britigan, M.D., president of the clinical enterprise |
Clinical enterprise president Brad Britigan, M.D., and CEO Bill Dinsmoor announced the new executive leadership structure for the organization during a series of forums earlier this week. Both said the new leadership structure is built for the future of health care reform.
“We have been historically a collection of tribes,” Dinsmoor said. “That doesn’t work anymore. We can respect our past cultures, but we are building for the future. We are building a new culture.”
The new leadership structure unifies ambulatory clinic and hospital operations. What once were separate operations managed by UNMC Physicians, The Nebraska Medical Center or Bellevue Medical Center are now connected.
Readers on the UNMC Intranet can click the link to see the new leadership chart.
“This is a leadership structure with much more involvement from providers,” Dr. Britigan said. “Some of these positions are clinically focused, some are support. All of them are very important to the future of our clinical enterprise.”
The goals behind the new structure are better efficiency, better adjustment to the new ways health care will be managed and delivered, and most importantly, better care of our patients wherever they’re seen.
Also introduced at forums were several other key leaders. Jim Canedy, M.D., and Marcel Devetten, M.D., continue their roles as medical leaders with the Accountable Care Alliance, our partnership with Methodist Health System.
Joining the two physicians in the ACA is Troy Wilhelm, current chief financial officer for UNMC Physicians. Dinsmoor believes the ACA will play a major role in the future of the clinical enterprise, accounting for 50 percent of our revenue in the future.
Chris Kratochvil, M.D., and Kelly Caverzagie, M.D., will lead the clinical enterprise’s research and education efforts, respectively.
Both Dinsmoor and Dr. Britigan said employees can expect rapid changes in the next several months. Leading many of the transformational efforts is Joe Graham, senior vice president of operations and transformation improvement.
Graham is leading 41 different performance improvement projects across the clinical enterprise. The projects range in scope from clinical care to financial operations and culture change.
“We are going to start moving quickly on process improvement,” Graham said. “We now have the people in place with the necessary skills to do it.”
Work on the projects begins Feb. 1.
Unable to attend forums? Readers on the UNMC Intranet can click
here to see a recording of this week’s announcements by Dr. Britigan and Bill Dinsmoor.