Health Leader Forge Mark Bonica

Today’s guest is Chris Dougherty, President and CEO of Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont. Chris knew from a young age that he wanted to be a healthcare leader to serve the most vulnerable in our communities. He has done exactly that, having been a hospital CEO on both coasts and in Texas. In this podcast, Chris shares his career journey and the lessons he learned from working in different types of hospitals and in different geographies, leading up to his current role as CEO of a community hospital here in northern New England.
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Links discussed in this podcast:
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital https://www.bmhvt.org/
Shriners for Children Medical Center in Pasadena, CA https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/locations/southern-california
Covenant Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Lakeside Campus https://www.providence.org/locations/covenant-health/childrens-hospital
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia https://www.chop.edu/
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Today’s guest is Darin Roark, President and Chief Operating Officer of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, New Hampshire. Darin has an unusual path, from working in an insurance company to becoming a nurse specialized in emergency medicine and intensive care, to leading large organizations. His path also took him from Illinois to Florida to Dover, New Hampshire, just one town over from UNH. I really enjoyed hearing Darin’s story and learning about his deep commitment to patient care while also incorporating a deep understanding of business.
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Links discussed on this podcast:
* Wentworth-Douglass Hospital https://www.wdhospital.org/wdh
* Mass General Brigham https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en
* Baptist Medical Center Clay https://www.baptistjax.com/locations/baptist-medical-center-clay
* Advocate Health Care https://www.advocatehealth.com/
* Carle Foundation Hospital https://carle.org/locations/carle-foundation-hospital
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Today’s guest is Kelly Barton, President of Maine Behavioral Healthcare, part of the MaineHealth System. Maine Behavioral Healthcare offers a full spectrum of behavioral health care, from community-based counseling and rehabilitation to a dedicated behavioral health hospital.   
In this podcast we talk about Kelly’s career journey starting as a unit coordinator in the emergency department through leadership roles in a variety of organizations. We discuss some of the challenges facing behavioral health providers currently, and we close on a discussion of leadership.
Links discussed on this podcast:
* Maine Behavioral Healthcare https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-behavioral-healthcare
* MaineHealth https://www.mainehealth.org/
* Community Health Network https://www.ecommunity.com/
* Gundersen Health System https://www.gundersenhealth.org/
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Today’s guest is Paul E. Fort, the CEO of FedPoint. FedPoint is a fast-growing provider of benefit administration and technology solutions for large institutional sponsors, with focus on the federal government of the United States and its numerous departments and agencies. 
In this podcast we talk about Paul’s unusual career journey to become an insurance executive – he first earned a PhD in Renaissance English Literature before making his way into the insurance industry. Paul began working in the long-term care insurance space in the late ‘80’s, and has been a leader in the field for decades. Not only has he led FedPoint’s growth, but he has also published a number of articles making recommendations to the industry on how to reform long-term care insurance to make it more affordable and sustainable. We close on a discussion of leadership.
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Links to Topics Discussed:
FedPoint
NYT/KFF article discussed: Facing Financial Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care
Paul Forte, Realigning LTCI—Private Long-Term Care Insurance and the Health Care Continuum
Richard Hooker Wikipedia Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hooker


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Today’s guest is Dr. Jeffrey Fetter, the Chief Medical Officer for the New Hampshire State Hospital. Dr. Fetter is a board-certified physician in both internal medicine and psychiatry, and has spent his career caring for some of the most vulnerable patients in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire State Hospital is a secure, inpatient psychiatric hospital for patients with serious mental illness. In this podcast we talk about Dr. Fetter’s journey through medicine, including how he was sure the one specialty he would not do was psychiatry, to his previous roles as the chief medical officer for a community mental health clinic and chief medical officer for the New Hampshire state prison system. This is a great conversation about the practice of medicine, but also about the importance of physician leadership.

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Today’s guest is Jason Dupuis, the Chief Patient Experience Officer for PM Pediatrics Health. In this podcast we talk about his early career at Boston Children’s where he rose to the director of the Emergency Department before he was thirty, and then how he got a job with PM Pediatrics when it was an emerging pediatrics urgent care chain because he had written his master’s thesis on the need for pediatrics urgent care in Massachusetts. When the founders heard what he had written, they told him to write his own job description. I had a lot of fun with this interview because Jason is also an alumni of my department’s undergraduate program and I’ve known him for several years, though I had never had the chance to hear his whole story.

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