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Volume 13 • Issue 2• $5.00 August 2016
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS
PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP... PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP...
Retired Bank Executive
Transforms Failing Healthcare
System into a Thriving Institution
BY DANIEL CASCIATO
Five years ago, Jackson Health System was nearly on
the brink of disaster only to be brought back to life
under new leadership. It took a savvy, retired bank
executive to take the helm during those dark times and
turn the ship around.
Wayne Brackin Carlos A. Migoya knew that becoming president and Marsha Powers
Baptist Health CEO of Jackson Health System would be the greatest chal- Tenet – 'How Can
COO Wayne lenge in his professional life. Despite no healthcare expe- We Do Better'
Brackin Credits rience, Migoya knew that he could learn the ins and outs BY LOIS THOMSON
Long-term of the industry and assemble a team of results-oriented Ask Marsha Powers how she can
keep everything straight and she is
Leadership for leaders to support the world-class nurses, doctors, and Carlos A. Migoya always quick to recognize those
other caregivers that made Jackson’s clinical care so famous. around her. Powers is the CEO of Tenet
System’s Healthcare Corporation's Florida Region,
“What Jackson needed was someone to come in and look at the health system as a so you know she has a heavy load of
Explosive Growth responsibilities; but instead of focusing on
business,†explains Migoya. “Because of my background as a businessman, I was up to herself, she would rather give credit to
BY VANESSA ORR those working with her: "I have the most
the challenge. I knew that if I could help steer Jackson back onto the right path, that this phenomenal team of people to work with
For the past nine years, Wayne – the CEOs of our hospitals, and the
Brackin has served as the chief could be my greatest legacy.†physicians. They are so committed to
operating officer (COO) of Baptist looking at what we are doing for our
Health South Florida. A former CEO at Migoya spent his entire career in the banking industry, retiring after more than 40 patients, what we are not doing, and how
both South Miami Hospital and we can do it better."
Homestead Hospital, Brackin’s first role years. He came out of retirement to work as the City Manager in Miami to help tackle
at Baptist was as an administrative Powers, who joined Tenet from Triad
intern. Continued on page 32 Hospitals in 2007, said her intent at that
time was to "take (Tenet) to the next step.
“A lot has happened since that time,†E D U C AT I O N We had 10 hospitals in South Florida, and
said Brackin, who now oversees six hos- my goal was to figure out ways that,
pitals in the Baptist Health system, as Health Informatics and Analytics - instead of being 10 separate hospitals, they
well as 30-plus outpatient and urgent Where Healthcare Intersects with could be 10 cohesive organizations that
care centers and the Baptist Health work closely together."
Medical Group. “When I started nine Information Technology
years ago, it was relatively early in the She described two areas in particular
creation of Baptist Health, which at the BY DANIEL CASCIATO PHOTOS COURTESY OF FIU MAGAZINE where that has taken place. The first dates
time was a group of independent hospi- back to 2008, when Powers said Tenet had
tals. I think our overarching accomplish- Today’s healthcare professionals continue to move one of the first comprehensive stroke cen-
ment was to get the organization func- closer to a greater reliance on information tech- ters in South Florida, at Delray Medical
tioning as a system, which we did as a nology and data. In fact, many healthcare Center followed by St. Mary's Medical
very tight-knit leadership group.†providers have expanded their use of technology to Center. "Since that period, we've devel-
oped the Advanced Neuroscience
“The extraordinarily long tenure of improve their quality of care across the continuum of Network – and we have added two more
management is a significant strength of
the organization,†he continued. “It has care. This movement has created a growth that exceeds Continued on page 32
Continued on page 27 20 percent over the next ten years and provides See pages 28-33 for
more Profiles In
employment opportunities for individuals interested in Leadership
both clinical and non-clinical positions in the health-
care field.
To help fill this pipeline, Florida International Dr. Monica Chiarini
University (FIU) has introduced a program within the Tremblay
College of Business that provides students with the
skills to analyze and present healthcare data. Students can earn a Master of Science
degree in Health Informatics and Analytics – a 14-month program designed for infor-
mation systems professionals, healthcare managers, physicians, nurses and other clini-
cians, as well as healthcare support personnel who want to learn how to use today’s
advanced information systems to create more efficient and productive healthcare envi-
ronments.
Continued on page 25
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