34: We Are Open for Business, with John M. Starcher, Jr., President and CEO, Bon Secours Mercy Health The Table with Renee DeSilva

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Gary Bisbee  0:00  
Good afternoon, John, and welcome. 
John Starcher  0:01  
Thank you, Gary. It's good to be with you. 
Gary Bisbee  0:03  
We're pleased to have you at this microphone. Let's get right into Coronavirus and COVID. We've learned that COVID surge is highly variable by region. In your case, you've got eight states in two countries to think about. How do you think about the surge across all your service areas, John?
John Starcher  0:21  
Well, Gary, it's absolutely variable to your point. But it depends across each of our states, within the states, each of our markets, obviously across the country with our presence in the Republic of Ireland as well. It's been unbelievably variable. At the end of the day, we've treated about 4000 patients that have tested positive for COVID since early March, we currently have about 220 patients in-house today. But when you look at the surge to your question, I think what we do is in our bed capacity planning, we've been looking at the number of folks in the community that has been infected per 100 thousand in the population. And that shows just dramatic differences across our markets. We have some markets as high as 400 persons per 100,000 that have been infected in other markets as low as 50 persons 100,000. At the end of the day, we've got some markets that have seen more than 1000 COVID patients and other markets that have only seen about 40. So it's extraordinarily variable and something that certainly one size doesn't fit all when it comes to the management of these populations.
Gary Bisbee  1:29  
Let's come back to that later. But why don't we ask you to describe Bon Secours Mercy, of course, you went through an integration 18 months ago? So if you could just bring us up to speed on Bon Secours Mercy that'd be terrific.
John Starcher  1:41  
Sure Bon Secours Mercy Health is the merger between Bon Secours and Mercy Health, which happened in September of 2018. So to your point, we're about 18 or 20 months into the relationship respectively. We were about $4 billion net revenue organizations that came together and formed an eight-plus billion-dollar organization. Today we are tracking over $10 billi
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