Dr. James N. Weinstein, CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock, has been named to the Becker’s Hospital Review list of the top 100 physician leaders of hospitals and health systems in the United States.
The national list highlights the achievements of hospital CEOs with a medical background. Leaders are selected based on their “health care experience, accolades, and commitment to quality care”
Dr. Weinstein, a spine surgeon, was named CEO and President of Dartmouth-Hitchcock in November 2011. He previously held positions as president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), and Chair of the Departments of Orthopaedics at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine. He founded the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the first in the nation Center for Shared Decision Making, and co-founded the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science and the Masters of Health Care Delivery Science program.
He is a founding member with Mayo Clinic, Intermountain Health, TDI, and Denver Health, of the national High Value Healthcare Collaborative, a partnership of 19 health systems across the country, who have taken on the challenge of improving the quality of care while lowering costs. More than 70,000 physicians, treating more than 100 million patients, are sharing best practices and data in an unprecedented partnership on behalf of patients.
He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. He serves on the IOM Committee on advising the Social Security Administration on Disability. Most recently, Dr. Weinstein was one of four members appointed to the IOM Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an academic health system, serving patients across New England. A national leader in patient-centered health care, D-H is on a path to create a sustainable health system for the region and to become a model for the nation. Founded in 1893 as Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock 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 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. Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,500 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research with the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.