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Roger Barnhart Roger Barnhart, Senior Healthcare Executive | CEO Roger Barnhart Roger Barnhart, Senior Healthcare Executive | CEO

Impacting Change Through Challenge

By Roger Barnhart

While talking with volunteers at the information desk, in walks the sweetest elderly couple. Both were in their mid to late 80s. The wife is using a cane with one hand and holding onto her husband for support with the other. 

An early August day, outside temperatures were in the upper 90s. It was my first week working within a $40M health system as interim CEO and consultant. The facility offered a vast array of both general and specialized services. Without counting the licensed beds, one would never know it was not an urban health system, but rather a Critical Access Hospital.

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Roger Barnhart Roger Barnhart, Senior Healthcare Executive | CEO Roger Barnhart Roger Barnhart, Senior Healthcare Executive | CEO

Focus on Culture for Patient and Family Care: Beyond the Medicine

by Roger Barnhart

As healthcare (including acute care, nursing homes, home health and all downstream providers) moves towards a greater focus on patient/family satisfaction, the model of healthcare must also evolve, for both the government and patients/families will be closely reviewing these in determining healthcare provider(s) of choice. A satisfied patient is a more compliant patient, making for a more engaged patient.

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