Scripps
Health Earns National Honors as 2008 Top Leadership Team
in Healthcare
Bringing a dramatic financial and
cultural turnaround full circle, Scripps Health has earned
national honors as the 2008 Top Leadership Team in Healthcare
for large hospitals and health systems from HealthLeaders
Media.
Scripps has
rebounded in the past eight years to post an operating
margin of $100 million in 2007 (compared to $15 operating
losses in 1999) and is now embarking on a $2 billion
expansion plan to upgrade its facilities and technologies
over the next decade.
Scripps has also
achieved a remarkable cultural transformation, with employee
and physician satisfaction scores rising significantly in
recent years, and charitable contributions reaching an
all-time high in 2007.
The
turnabout has come at the direction of Chris Van Gorder,
FACHE, who has been Scripps Health’s president and CEO since
2000.
Van Gorder assembled a
new management team and rebuilt the health system from
scratch on the strength of five core values: teamwork,
transparency, accountability, authority and
responsibility.
An early
catalyst for change at Scripps was the creation of the
Physician Leadership Cabinet, an advisory group of physician
leaders who meet regularly with hospital administrators.
Since the cabinet’s founding, 100 percent of its
recommendations have been accepted.
Leadership teamwork has been strengthened by
the Scripps
Leadership
Academy
, a management training program
that encourages understanding between managers of different
units within Scripps.
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