The Pursuit of Executive Leadership
Meet Our Guest:
Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH, has served as president and CEO of ChristianaCare since 2014, leading a transformation from a health care system to a system that truly impacts health. She is nationally recognized as a pioneer and thought leader in value-based care and population health, and for her assertion that truly great health care is built on the values of love and excellence. These values are exemplified in her commitment to health equity and anti-racism, and to improving health, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs for everyone in the communities that ChristianaCare has the privilege to serve. Her leadership has also vaulted ChristianaCare to national recognition for its advancement of caregiver wellbeing through the work of the Center for WorkLife Wellbeing.
Key Insights:
Janice Nevin, M.D. discusses what it is like being the first woman to be the head of Delaware’s largest hospital system.
● Share Your Values. As CEO of ChristianaCare, Janice believes that organizations that clearly share their values and connect people to those values will thrive.
● From Clinical to Administrative. Janice transitioned from clinical frontline leadership to administrative leadership in the healthcare system. She explains that she chose to grow and develop as a physician executive, which led her to the Chief Medical Officer role and her introduction to the C-suite.
● Lead With Love. Leading with love means walking towards problems and doing hard things. Janice engaged the entire organization to define its values and emerged with a value statement of serving together guided by the values of excellence and love.
This episode is hosted by Sanjula Jain, Ph.D. She is a member of the Advisory Council for Her Story, co-founder of Think Medium, and the SVP, Market Strategy and Chief Research Officer at Trilliant Health.
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