Cary CEO named to national American Hospital Assn. committee
Courtesy / Cary Medical Center
Kris Doody, CEO at Cary Medical Center in Caribou, has been appointed to a national committee of the American Hospital Association.
Cary Medical Center CEO Kris Doody has been appointed to a national committee of the American Hospital Association.
The Committee on Health Care Strategy and Innovation was recently formed by the AHA Board of Trustees to address emerging health care issues and to guide the association in its policy positions and programs.
Among the issues to be tackled by the committee are the pending changes in federal health care policies, affordability of health care, new models of health care delivery, chronic care management, population health, physician alignment and workforce issues.
The committee comprises 18 health system and hospital leaders from around the country and is expected to meet three times this year. Doody attended the first meeting earlier this month at AHA headquarters in Chicago. She also was a 2009 Mainebiz Women to Watch winner.
“I am very excited to serve on this committee,” said Doody, who has just completed a three-year term on the AHA National Board of Trustees. “It will be great to bring the perspective of the rural hospital to the table and at the same time learn from these health systems.”
Doody said in a release announcing her appointment that small, rural hospitals can be great incubators for innovation and that hospitals in Maine are already engaged in some dynamic initiatives.
“Here at Cary we have developed a unique model in our collaborative relationship with Pines Health Services, a Federally Qualified Health Center,” she said. “We have spoken nationally about this model. We have led the formation of the Maine Rural Health Innovation Network through a federal grant, bringing several independent rural hospitals together to foster innovation and shared thinking. And our work with the Veterans Administration has led to a national movement to improve local health care for veterans, particularly those living in rural areas of the country.”
Cary Medical Center is based in Caribou.
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