Modern Healthcare (subscription required) reports:
“Ascension is restructuring as it pursues new strategic direction, hinting at transitioning from a hospital-oriented system to one that’s focused on outpatient care and telemedicine, the largest Catholic health system told its 165,000 employees early Friday morning via a video featuring Ascension President and CEO Anthony Tersigni that Modern Healthcare has exclusively obtained. ”
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He says he gets particular pleasure from cutting through red tape “and kind of get through the very bureaucratic and fragmented state of healthcare in this country today.”
He said he like “to get this country to create one national health policy. Since World War II, we’ve cobbled together what I characterize as financing policies, and we’ve actually taken models of care from other parts of the world and have brought it to this country. And that’s what’s complicating, that’s what’s fragmenting.”
And he said: “I’ve got the best healthcare team in the country who’s much smarter than I will ever be. We’ve done some remarkable things because of their leadership capabilities.”
He says: “We view person-centered care as our sacred promise to support individuals’ lifelong health and well-being through holistic care. It’s something that goes back to our roots. We have a 200-year legacy of caring for the whole person — body, mind and spirit. ….We believe, as care develops in the future, it’s going to become much more personalized than it has been in the past. Bottom line, the emphasis on person-centered care is our way of demonstrating the commitment that our founders have had for the last 200 years.”
He says that all this means more work at Ascension for such professions as social workers, nutritionists, coaches and partners for health.
He said: “Our destination point is to develop the capabilities to take care of millions of lives from birth to death.”
