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The vision of a single, unified clinical enterprise continued to take shape last week as the newly-formed advisory board met for the first time.
The board, chaired by UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., will provide the enterprise with advice, support and eventually oversight once the new entity is legally formed in July. In addition to Dr. Gold, the board is made up of 11 other members, including internationally known business leaders and respected clinicians. See sidebar at right.
“We had a very substantive discussion,” said Brad Britigan, M.D., president of the clinical enterprise, advisory board member and dean of the UNMC College of Medicine. “We discussed the process we will follow to formalize this enterprise and form us into a single organization.”
“Our new clinical enterprise has a very bright future with this board,” said Bill Dinsmoor, CEO of the clinical enterprise and advisory board member. “We’re very fortunate to have leading minds in medicine, science and business helping us to create a new organization and a new culture.”
On Monday, Dr. Britigan and Dinsmoor issued their weekly letter/video update on the project.
The letter said one of the most important things the board discussed “was the need to create a new culture for our new clinical enterprise.
“We believe a cultural transformation is one of the most important parts of this process, and we’ll continue to provide updates as we progress on this journey.”
The letter, addressed to the clinical staff, emphasized that everyone’s input is important in this process.
“It’s not just the job of executives, directors or managers. There are dozens of very important projects underway and we’d like to get input from everyone.”
Readers on campus can visit this website to see all these enterprise-related projects, as well as who’s working on them, and suggest an idea. In the letter, Dr. Britigan and Dinsmoor also requested that employees answer a one-question survey on what to call the projects.