Centura Health Care Executive Summary

Mission: To create a healthier future for children and woman throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research

As Executive Director, I will provide staff leadership for Better Health Association. Our goal for the company is to improve the well-being of individuals. Audiences of all ages will be able to take part in learning about living a healthy lifestyle and developing the skills needed to make healthy choices to prevent diseases and ameliorate conditions for those already afflicted with illnesses. Over the course of the next year, It is my responsibility to develop and lead the staff, management structure, dedicated to achieving the mission for Better Health Care Organization. I plan to make significant changes to our organization, to help guide individuals in Central Ohio, to living a better and healthier lifestyle. My goal is to empower the staff with the training needed to meet our company’s standards.

With over seven years of experience in her field at Yale Hospital and in Healthcare Insurance, her unremitting compassion and dedication to her cause persists with the role as a Community Outreach Education Coordinator at the Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity.

Centura Health is their region’s largest hospital system that is faith based and not-for-profit, located in Colorado and Western Kansas. This system includes 15 hospitals plus more affiliated hospitals, over 100 physician practices, senior living communities, Flight for Life, Centura Health at Home, and laboratory services (Centura, 2014). The power, size, and large scale of this system causes it to be a god system to analyze during states of change. Currently, there are a lot of changes that are occurring throughout the healthcare system due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act that was signed into law by President Barak Obama. This act has called for a change to increase accessibility to healthcare, reduce the costs that are associated with healthcare, reduce the amount of duplication, and reduce the amount or errors (Herrington, 2010). Centura has created a strategic plan to address these changes and many other changes. Centura Health’s strategic plan is known as the Centura Health 2020 strategic plan. This strategic plan outlines long and short term goals. These goals, as well as previous goal, will be analyzed to understand how they plan on creating the need for change to ensure the successful implementation, as well as, understanding their historical approach to strategic change. Many organizations will look at past successes and failures to understand what went right and wrong to recreate, or avoid, those successes

As Executive Director, I will provide staff leadership for Better Health Association. Our goal for the company is to improve the well-being of individuals. Audiences of all ages will be able to take part in learning about living a healthy lifestyle and developing the skills needed to make healthy choices to prevent diseases and ameliorate conditions for those already afflicted with illnesses. Over the course of the following year, it is my responsibility to develop and lead the staff, management structure, dedicated to achieving the mission for Better Health Care Organization. I plan to make significant changes to our organization, to help guide individuals in

Currently, I work as the Coordinator of Multicultural Recruitment at Messiah College. I oversee the recruitment of students from Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, and Washington DC. My positon also serves as the director of the Lloyd and Lois Martin Multicultural Scholarship and Amigo Scholarship. These scholarships were started to help Messiah recruit and retain students of color. The Lloyd and Lois Martin Multicultural Scholarship awards four Full-Tuition scholarships and six $20,000 scholarships. The Amigo Mentoring Scholarship awards forty $16,000 scholarships. The Martin & Amigo

Centura Health had the opportunity for a workshop presentation by Dominique Morgan-Solomon, a population health expert. Dominique Morgan-Solomon, MPH, works as a consultant in health care delivery, device management, and for health care organizations on population health strategies and program implementation. Prior to consulting, Dominique was the Chief Operating Officer of Steward Medical Group and Vice President of Population Health for Steward Health Care from February 2012 until October of 2015. She was responsible for the strategic planning and execution of its quality performance, clinical integration care management, and population health programs. Last year she was awarded “Young Healthcare Executive of the Year” for her leadership in this promising field by the National Association of Health Service Executives (NAHSE). She has exceeded in her career after receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in Biology and Political Science and a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from the University of Michigan.

Centura Health is a hospital system located in Colorado and Kansas. They have created a mission and vision statement that focuses on the communities that they serve. Their current mission Statement is “We extend the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people in our communities.” (Centura, 2014). Their current vision statement is “Centura Health will fulfill a covenant of caring for our communities with excellence and integrity to become their partner for life.” (Centura, 2014). These statements are short and meet most of Aguinis’ eight components for the mission and vision statements.

Before deciding where I wanted to do my service learning, I knew I wanted to do something that had some relevance to my degree that I will be receiving in healthcare management. I was eager to gain more experience and become more knowledgeable of how an organization operates as it relates to healthcare management. I was able to secure an opportunity to volunteer at the Dallas Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital. After completing the required VA forms, I got partnered with Mr. Alonzo Price Jr. who is a Management Analyst in Ambulatory Care, which is the department that oversees the Primary Care Providers.

Dr. Alves served as the Center’s internship training Director and was a clinical psychologist in the Center. Dr. Arranz was the Crisis Response Coordinator and a clinical psychologist at the center. Dr. Bosshardt. Was the Coordinator for Mind Body Programs and a clinical psychologist, who also served as liaison tor International Student Services and as a member of the Center’s Clinical Task Force and the Executive Training Committee. Dr. Gunter, the final Appellant was the Outreach Coordinator for the Center and transitioned into the Coordinator of Practicum Training. She was also the Athletic Department liaison, Diversity Committee Chair, and Cultural Competency Conference Planning Committee Co-Chair.

Recent reports have noted that the racial/ethnic composition of our nation is projected to transmute drastically in the coming decades. Given this information, it is ergo consequential that our nation’s health professions amend their efforts to provide culturally competent care to all patients. My contribution to advancing diversity in the medical field includes expecting volunteering opportunities where I was not in the majority, but where I was the minority. You will note that throughout my years of giving back, I have always served in areas were I could reduce health-care disparities and/or serve in underserved communities.

While interning at Arcos communication, I was lucky enough to support the efforts of Betances health center, as the organization announced and executed the opening of its new location in Bushwick. As part of the media materials for the event, I drafted a media advisory, a press release, a fact sheet, an Op-Ed and designed the first draft of a brochure for a campaign to be promoted at the opening

My clinical experience for this semester was an opportunity to follow the house supervisor at Trios Healthcare in Kennewick, WA. The courses at Washington State University (WSU) consisting of leadership and management have taught me the value of collaboration as well as communication. With the opportunity to follow the house supervisor I was able to apply this knowledge to my clinical experience. This was especially good because one of my learning objectives was to participate in the management of admissions and transferring patients in the

Karen Johnston is a director of a health planning agency which employs approximately 18 staff members and also serves on the Community Advisory Board (CAB). This program typically incorporates two student interns from her health planning agency. The CAB is a vital program as it advises the program faculty on issues that concern curriculum, internships, job placements, and scholarships.

Health equity is a major problem that Centura is attempting to solve. Health Equity is defined as “attainment of the highest level of health for all people” (Healthy People 2020, 2016.) Centura attempting to uphold the concept of health equity but aligning company values with health equity as a guideline. Centura Health is structuring their polices by researching best practices of increase diversity in it hiring process, building relationships with Human Resources, surrounding academic communities and community organizations in order to foster health careers among a people with diverse backgrounds. Centura has also partnered with another agency attempted to address the sample issues. The American hospital association creates 123 For Equity