The members of the National Advisory Board of American Healthcare Solutions are some of the most accomplished senior level healthcare executives in the United States, with over 400 years of collective experience. They are committed to the quality and success of each engagement and take exceptional pride in helping healthcare organizations overcome challenges to create real, long- term results and stability.
Don Arnwine
Don Arnwine has had an illustrious career in healthcare for more than five decades as a senior executive with some of the leading healthcare provider organizations in the country. He has served as chief executive officer at university hospitals, multi-hospital systems, and a national hospital alliance. He has extensive experience in virtually every aspect of managing healthcare institutions, and has particular expertise in strategic planning and management, physician hospital relations and integration, system and network development, governance issues, and board reorganization.
As the founding president of VHA (formerly Voluntary Hospitals of America), Mr. Arnwine set the strategic direction for a hospital organization that would ultimately encompass 29 regional healthcare systems and some 2400 hospitals.
He developed one of the nation's largest HMO/PPO management companies in the United States, and served as the first president & CEO of the Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, WV, and as director of hospitals at the University of Colorado Medical Center.
Mr. Arnwine holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Oklahoma's Central State University, and a master's degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and presently serves on several boards.
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Phil Goodwin
Phil Goodwin has more than four decades of senior health care experience. He has expertise in hospital management, health care system development and operation, mergers, acquisitions, organizational restructurings, physician alliance development, medical affairs, strategic planning, and issue facilitation with boards of governors.
Mr. Goodwin has served as president and chief executive officer of Camcare, Inc. and the Charleston Area Medical Center, in Charleston, West Virginia. Camcare, Inc.-formed by the consolidation of seven hospitals-has evolved into a state-of-the- art four hospital system with over 1,000 beds. It has its own foundation, academic residency programs, research and development capability, and is the cornerstone of the largest and most advanced health system in the state of West Virginia.
Mr. Goodwin previously served in various leadership positions at the Hillcrest Medical Center, a 351-bed facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and with Union Memorial Hospital and Stuttgart Memorial Hospital in Arkansas.
Mr. Goodwin is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and has held positions of prominence within the American Hospital Association, the West Virginia Hospital Association, and with VHA, Inc. (formerly Voluntary Hospitals of America). He has also served on the board and the executive committee of the National Committee for Quality Health Care, and has served on the National Council of Community Hospitals and the Wellness Councils of America.
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Patrick Hays
Patrick Hays has more than four decades of hospital and healthcare management experience with a special focus on health system development and operation, mergers, acquisitions, organizational restructurings, physician alliance development, medical affairs, strategic planning, and issue facilitation with boards of governors.
He currently serves as an advisor to management, clinical professor at University of Southern California, and as an active consultant to the Blue Cross Blue Shield organization after retiring as its president and CEO in 2000. Blue Cross and Blue Shield comprises some 38 local member companies in all fifty states, and offers health insurance to more than 90 million people. Prior to Blue Cross Blue Shield, he was the founding president and CEO of Sutter Health, now the largest healthcare system in northern California with 29 hospitals serving some 100 communities.
Mr. Hays holds a master's degree in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Tulsa. He is board certified in healthcare management by the American College of Healthcare Executives, and has published numerous books, articles, and journals.
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William H. Kelley
William Kelley is currently serving as Chairman of Hill-Rom Company, a manufacturer of patient care products, providing specialized rental therapy products designed to assist in managing the complications of patient immobility. Mr. Kelley began his career as a clerk in the sales department in 1960 and moved through sales to various positions; eventually becoming President and CEO, and then chairman.
A member of several non-profit organizations, Mr. Kelley has also been honored with an Honorary Fellowship Degree in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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W. Jeffery Seubel
After retiring from Morgan Stanley in 2005, Mr. Seubel recently joined Banc of America Securities as Managing Director in its public Finance Division. He brings over 32 years of experience in healthcare finance in such capacities as Director of Finance and Planning for the American Hospital Association, as a member of the Office of the President for the Luthern Hospital Society of Southern California, a major multi-hospital system, and for the last 25 years as an investment banker to the healthcare industry.
Mr. Seubel's investment banking career has focused on all segments of the not-for-profit healthcare industry, including hospital systems and management companies, rehabilitation institutes, children's hospitals, health maintenance organizations, outpatient organizations, as well as major community hospitals. Mr. Seubel has completed over $11 billion in senior managed financings.
In addition, Mr Seubel has assisted many of his clients in their merger and acquisition activities, both in the strategic planning aspects of such M&A activities as well as the actual execution of the transactions.
Mr Seubel's M&A experience totals over $5 Billion in such transactions. Mr. Seubel holds a B.A. from Roanoke College and his MBA and MHA from the University of Chicago.
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Douglas Shepherd
Douglas Shepherd has over thirty years of diverse and progressive senior leadership experience in hospital and healthcare system management with a particular depth of experience in operations and start-up hospital ventures. He currently serves as the president and CEO of Laurel Regional Hospital in Laurel, Maryland.
He previously served as executive vice-president and COO for the Greater Southeast Community Hospital and as senior vice-president and chief administrator of the National Rehabilitation Hospital, which grew from a start-up hospital into one of the top 20 rehabilitation hospitals in the United States.
Mr. Shepherd has spent his career involved with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and the American Hospital Association, which he has served as both member and chairman of several committees. He has also held various leadership and board level positions in many state and regional hospital associations, and continues to serve other organizations focused on healthcare administrators and family caregiving for chronically ill patients.
Mr. Shepherd currently holds faculty appointments for health programs at George Washington University and Georgetown University, and has received numerous awards and recognition for excellence and leadership from ACHE, the District of Columbia Hospital Association, and his peers
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Hank Wagner
Hank Wagner has more than thirty-five years of senior executive healthcare experience, with practical expertise in hospital management and healthcare system development and operation, mergers, acquisitions, organizational restructurings, physician alliance development, medical affairs, strategic planning, and issue facilitation with boards of governors.
For thirty of those years, he provided strategic vision and strong leadership as president and CEO of Jewish Hospital and its parent company, Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services. Under his leadership Jewish Hospital was selected for the first AbioCore replacement heart implantation, followed by the first hand transplants in the United States. Prior to his time at Jewish Hospital, Hank served as the associate director of the University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland.
Mr. Wagner is currently on the boards of several healthcare and other organizations. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and has served in various positions in the American Hospital Association, Premier Hospitals Alliance, and the Kentucky Hospital Association. Mr. Wagner has received numerous awards and citations from his peers including Entrepreneur of the Year in Kentucky, Person of the Year, and the Kentucky Hospital Association's Award of Excellence.
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Dan S. Wilford
Dan Wilford has over forty years of experience in hospital and health system development and management, with extensive experience in hospital mergers and acquisitions. He retired after twenty years as the president and CEO of one of the largest and most complex not-for-profit healthcare organizations in the country.
He held key positions as the president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, Texas and as the president of the North Mississippi Health Services, one of the largest rural health systems in the United States. He also served in positions of progressive leadership in state hospital associations in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma, as well as with the VHA (formerly Voluntary Hospitals of America).
Mr. Wilford is a Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and currently lends his experience and guidance to the boards of several organizations. Highly regarded in the healthcare industry, Mr. Wilford has received numerous awards and recognition from his peers for excellence in leadership.
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Ned Wilford
Ned Wilford has more than four decades of senior healthcare experience. He has practical expertise in hospital management and healthcare system development and operation, mergers, acquisitions, organizational restructurings, physician alliance development, medical affairs, strategic planning, and issue facilitation with boards of governors.
Mr. Wilford most recently served as president and chief executive officer of Hamilton Health Care System, Inc. of Dalton, Georgia. He previously held positions as president and CEO of Life Care Centers of America, Inc., a long-term care organization with 133 facilities and 18,000 beds nationwide. He was also president of Holmes Regional Healthcare System, Inc. in Melbourne, Florida and executive director of Halifax Hospital Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Mr. Wilford is a Life Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and has held prominent positions with the American Hospital Association, the Florida Hospital Association, the VHAs of Florida and Georgia, and the board of directors for VHA, Inc. of Dallas, Texas. He served on boards of directors for several other healthcare and hospital related organizations, and received a gubernatorial appointment on the State of Florida Community Hospital Education Council. Ned remains active with numerous civic organizations such as the North Georgia Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army.
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