Dartmouth-Hitchcock CEO and President Dr James N Weinstein (number 94) has been named one of the ‘100 most influential people in healthcare’ by the industry publication Modern Healthcare.
Modern Healthcare's annual ranking honors ‘individuals in healthcare who are deemed by their peers and an expert panel to be the most influential individuals in the industry, in terms of leadership and impact.’ This year’s list is headed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and includes health care practitioners, policy makers and thought leaders including President Barack Obama, Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. John Noseworthy, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, and surgeon and writer Dr. Atul Gawande. This is Weinstein’s first inclusion on the list.
‘Jim’s vision for a sustainable health system is why so many of us are here at Dartmouth-Hitchcock,’ says Dartmouth-Hitchcock Executive VP for Population Health and Chief Clinical Officer Dr. Gregg Meyer. ‘Under his leadership, we’re exploring new models of population health, designed to provide the highest-quality care and best value for patients, and participating in a number of initiatives to reform how we pay for that quality care. Despite the challenges that all of us in health care face, this is an exciting time to be here.’
Weinstein leads Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a health care system that includes New Hampshire's academic medical center and a network of clinics across Vermont and New Hampshire, serving a patient population of 1.5 million. Under his leadership, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is working to create a ‘sustainable health system’ for patients, providers, payers, and communities.
‘It is an honor to be named to the Modern Healthcare most influential list, especially as it represents the votes of my colleagues and peers in U.S. health care,’ said Weinstein. ‘Dartmouth-Hitchcock and all who work here are motivated by a single mission: to do what is right for the patients, families, and communities we serve. With that as our North Star, we are creating a sustainable health system that I hope will become a model for the nation in the delivery of health and health care.’
Weinstein is a founding member, with Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Health, the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, and Denver Health, of the national High Value Healthcare Collaborative, a partnership of 19 health systems across the country, working to improve health care while lowering costs.
He is also a leader in advancing "informed choice" to ensure patients receive evidence-based, safe, effective, efficient and appropriate care. In 1999, he established the first-in-the-nation Center for Shared Decision-Making at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, where patient preferences and values are an integral part of diagnostic and treatment decisions.
Weinstein is an internationally renowned spine surgeon and a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, with more than 250 published articles. He founded the multidisciplinary Spine Center at Dartmouth, which has become an international model for patient-centered health care delivery.
Weinstein holds the Peggy Y. Thomson Chair in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College.
ABOUT DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK: Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a national leader in patient-centered health care and building a sustainable health system. Founded in 1893, the system
includes New Hampshire’s only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state’s only Children’s Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children's hospital. As an academic medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
(See the full list at http://www.modernhealthcare.com/gallery/20130824/PHOTO/824009999/PH)
DHMC 8.27.2013
Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Weinstein named to Modern Healthcare’s '100 Most Influential' list
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