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Nick Jacobs, hospital CEO, to start blogging at hospital impact

November 21st, 2005

I'm pleased to announce that Nick Jacobs, CEO/President of Windber Medical Center and Windber Research Institute, will be blogging at hospital impact as a guest blogger, sharing his humorous and insightful thoughts on hospital leadership. You can also find his thoughts on his blog, Nick's blog, the first hospital CEO blog ever.

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His background is quite interesting (as I posted previously). Among many other things, Nick was previously a high school music teacher, a director of a regional arts organization, executive director for two different healthcare foundations, a VP at Mercy Medical Center, and a chief communications officer for a health system.

What I especially appreciate about Nick is his ability to tell stories (something us financial types really need to learn), his right-brained way of thinking (check out tomorrow's post), and his approach toward leadership. It should not be lost that under Nick's leadership, his Medical Center has a 1% infection rate (9x lower than the national average) and was recently nominated as one of the top 50 places to work in the U.S.

For a full bio, check out his blog bio. Given his busy schedule as a hospital (and research institute) CEO, I especially thank him for his enthusiasm to blog at hospital impact from time to time.

Welcome Nick!

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Comment from: Rob [Visitor]

Great news! An excellent addition.

11/22/05 @ 19:49

Comment from: zane knauss [Visitor]

I have a slight bias toward Nick. I have worked with him on various projects for lo these many, many years. He not only is one of the best friends I ever had or hope to have but he has incredible smarts and a sense of humor which not many guys with his IQ and accomplishments can muster. If someone wants a class speaker for their medicval event, they couldn't do any better at all than to have him up there telling it like it is in an understated way that will knock your socks off. As I write this, I am down here in chilly South Carolina...a seventy something retiree. stay loose...z.

02/09/06 @ 20:12

Comment from: Corey [Visitor]

Good afternoon!

I really enjoy reading your posts both here and on your own site. I am an editor for HealthLeaders Media, and I am writing an article on new media and its impact on hospital marketing. I would love to talk with you about your feelings on this issue if you have some time this week. Feel free to email me at CChristman@hcpro.com.
Thanks very much!
Corey

02/05/07 @ 16:01

Comment from: Vernon Dutton [Visitor] · http://www.rubylane.com/shops/nursingpins/item/2518

I thought you might like to see this Yearbook from Windber Hospital Training School for Nurses 1935. This was the first year the school had a yearbook...includes a photo. of Dr.Orris, Vernon.

11/14/07 @ 14:45

Comment from: Neal Gorman [Visitor] · http://www.lutheranmedicalcenter.com/News

Hi!
I'm looking for someone to post blog updates about our medical mission to Honduras. We can provide updates with great pics (a real pro photog who's great!) for about three days while on the ground. See below for more. A speech and hearing expert from our family health center will be there too and she is just amazing - she'll be providing tests and hearing devices - last year we witnessed countless kids and adults hear for the first time, it was amazing....see some more info here: There are links there to the photog's site from last year so you can see how good his pics are. I know this is late notice - we leave this saturday!!
http://www.lutheranmedicalcenter.com/News.

04/16/08 @ 09:42

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