Incredible Health Care Leaders

Javon Bea, the president and CEO of Mercyhealth, talks with Incredible Health CEO Iman Abuzeid about his first jobs in health — mopping the floors and restocking cigarette machines, at a hospital that is now named after him. They also discuss how he turned around Mercyhealth beginning in the late 1980s, presaging a now-common model of integrated community health systems.

Bea’s reforms, while not without their challenges, led to President George W. Bush awarding him the prestigious Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award in the Oval Office. So where does his work ethic come from, and what mistakes has he made along the way? Listen to the new episode to learn those things and more.

This interview was recorded in April 2021.

Incredible Health Care Leaders is produced by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm. Theme music courtesy of Purple Planet Music.

Incredible Health is an award-winning, rapidly-growing hiring marketplace that helps hospitals hire permanent, experienced nurses in 20 days or less. Learn more at www.incrediblehealth.com

Barry Freedman, the former CEO of Einstein Healthcare Network, talks with Incredible Health CEO Iman Abuzeid about how he discovered his passion for healthcare, what he learned from an unsuccessful merger with NYU Health while running Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and how he shifted Einstein's culture from "me" to "we."

Dr. Freedman also talks about Philadelphia-based Einstein's recently finalized merger with Jefferson Health, the legal challenges to that merger that were thrown out by a judge, and the "best job I ever had" — delivering kegs of beer in Madison, Wisconsin.

This interview was recorded in May 2021.

Incredible Health Care Leaders is produced by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm. Theme music courtesy of Purple Planet Music.

Incredible Health is an award-winning, rapidly-growing hiring marketplace that helps hospitals hire permanent, experienced nurses in 20 days or less. Learn more at www.incrediblehealth.com

ChristianaCare CEO Dr. Janice Nevin talks with Incredible Health CEO Iman Abuzeid about heading one of the nation’s largest health systems, the critical moments in her career, and the core values that drive her organization, including a pursuit of "excellence and love."

Dr. Nevin also talks about ChristianaCare's collaborative project with Highmark Health, CareVio; the limitations of digital healthcare; being an active member of one's local community, and how that helped ChristianaCare get vaccines to its Latin-American neighbors; and why there's no such thing as a bad decision.

This interview was recorded in May 2021.

Incredible Health Care Leaders is produced by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm. Theme music courtesy of Purple Planet Music.

Incredible Health is an award-winning, rapidly-growing hiring marketplace that helps hospitals hire permanent, experienced nurses in 20 days or less. Learn more at www.incrediblehealth.com

Dave Lubarsky, the CEO of UC Davis Health, talks with Incredible Health CEO Iman Abuzeid about the initial problems with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, the digitization and remote-first future of healthcare, and how he’s preparing for (“God forbid”) the next pandemic.

Dr. Lubarsky and Dr. Abuzeid also talk about embracing gratitude and mindfulness during this pandemic; the importance of transparency and trust, and treating everyone in your organization like an adult; why a vaccine passport or similar way of encouraging “herd mentality” around the vaccine would be helpful; and what healthcare leaders can learn from Amazon.

This interview was recorded in April 2021.

Incredible Health Care Leaders is produced by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm. Theme music courtesy of Purple Planet Music.

Incredible Health is an award-winning, rapidly-growing hiring marketplace that helps hospitals hire permanent, experienced nurses in 20 days or less. Learn more at www.incrediblehealth.com

Dr. Marc Boom, the president and CEO of Houston Methodist in Houston, Texas, talks with Incredible Health CEO Iman Abuzeid about managing eight hospitals during compounding crises. He explains how his hospitals improvised in February when a days-long deep freeze knocked out power and water.

Dr. Boom and Dr. Abuzeid also talk about the importance of keeping employee morale up in times of crisis; how Houston Methodist avoided furloughs and layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic; the impact of Governor Greg Abbott lifting the mask mandate in Texas; why Boom requires his employees to get a flu shot annually, and how the same policy was amended to include the COVID-19 vaccine; and what he has learned over the course of his career. 

This interview was recorded in April 2021.

Incredible Health Care Leaders is produced by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm. Theme music courtesy of Purple Planet Music.

Incredible Health is an award-winning, rapidly-growing hiring marketplace that helps hospitals hire permanent, experienced nurses in 20 days or less. Learn more at www.incrediblehealth.com