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How this physician leader helps bring hospital care to the home
The Marshfield Clinic Health System is located in central Wisconsin and offers services to an area of about 45,000 square miles. In those rural parts of Wisconsin and northern Michigan, patients can be forced to spend hours in transport trying to reach the nearest hospital or clinic. Narayana Murali, MD, remembers joining Marshfield Clinic in 2006 and meeting a 67-year-old woman with diabetes who traveled 200 miles four times a year just to titrate her medications and optimize her heath. He figured there was a better alternative. The following year, Dr. Murali was given the opportunity to provide her with virtual care, do exams over video, review vital signs and…
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Health care leader Andrew Dreyfus is charting his next chapter
He goes on to explain he doesn’t have any hobbies, not even gardening or playing a musical instrument. He owns neither a second home nor a boat. But there is one thing he remains passionate about: Changing health care. He will, for example, be teaching this spring at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He’s already come up with the course’s working title: “Can Health Plans Be Good? The potential and limits of health plans as agents of health system change.” He will join the board of the Joint Commission, an influential national health care accreditation organization, and continue to chair the board of the Blue Cross foundation. He…
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Kyle Myers, Vice President of Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability, Named to 2022 Environment+Energy Leader 50 Honoree List
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CyrusOne, a leading global data center developer and operator specializing in delivering state-of-the-art digital infrastructure solutions, today announced that Kyle Myers, Vice President of Environmental Health, Safety, and Sustainability, has been named to the 2022 Environment+Energy Leader 50 Honoree List. “Kyle is an instrumental member of CyrusOne’s ongoing sustainability mission,” said Eric Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer of CyrusOne. “He has demonstrated through his work and other accomplishments that he is a leader in the sustainability space of our company and is an integral part of a talented team spearheading our industry leading water sustainability program and our goal of reaching carbon neutrality. Excellence in sustainability requires continuous improvement and…
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Eaton selected as NAM Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar – News
Eaton is one of 10 ELHM scholars selected. Ellen Eaton, M.D., Photography by Andrea MabryEllen Eaton, M.D., associate professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Infectious Diseases in the Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, has been selected to serve as a National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar for a three-year term. Each year, the NAM selects 10 exceptional ELHM scholars to engage around, and learn from, activities under the umbrella of the NAM, addressing topics that are currently shaping the future of health and medicine. Eaton applied to contribute to NAM priority areas around the opioid crisis and COVID-19.…
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Try this style of self-improvement to become a better leader
Personal accountability is the foundation of mental fitness, which is critical for effective leadership. I’m not talking about everyday actions. I’m talking about a radical level of accountability. You stop blaming other people and/or circumstances for how you feel or what has happened to you. Typically, when we say that someone isn’t accountable, we mean their behavior, actions, and outcomes are not reliable. We pinpoint what they did or did not do; the result that they did not achieve. I think that definition is a good starting point, but it does not go far enough. My definition: You are accountable for not only your behavior, actions, and outcomes, but also…
