While picking up a prescription recently, I had the opportunity to tour our St. Luke’s Boise pharmacy and talk to staff members who, I was delighted to discover, are incorporating our vision and strategy every day in all they do. I visited with Pharmacy Operations Manager Mike Griffiths and was so impressed with his clarity [...]
I’ve asked St. Luke’s Health System Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Taylor to share his perspectives. His thoughts are presented here. I’ve introduced Jeff in a previous post, and you’ll be hearing more from him and other members of our executive team in this space in the future. Health care finance is enormously complex, and as [...]
After I wrote about the possibilities of medical tourism in May, I was asked this question on my blog: Can you explain your statement, “The calculation is that even though some patients may be more costly, others can be managed under the fixed price at a profit,” in the context of St. Luke’s nonprofit, tax-exempt [...]
I think that it may be helpful to look at where we are now, and where we are going. I arrived here a little more than two years ago, and set out to achieve three things in the first year. I wanted to: Create alignment within and across the System; Optimize the leadership team; and [...]
