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The Chicago lab teaching hospitals to read your blood before sepsis reads you
Sepsis kills more Americans than all cancers combined and hides in plain sight. Prenosis spent a decade building a biobank and an algorithm to catch it in the first 24 hours - and got the FDA to say yes.
The Hospital Network Betting That Great Care Can Stay Close to Home
Lifepoint Health has grown from 23 community hospitals into a coast-to-coast care network. Its wager is simple to describe and difficult to execute: give smaller markets the infrastructure of a national system without asking patients to leave home for care.
Springfield Regional Medical Center
In 2011, two competing Springfield hospitals stopped competing and poured $275 million into a single building on North Fountain Boulevard. Today, Mercy Health - Springfield Regional Medical Center is the 234-bed answer to nearly every medical question in Clark County, Ohio.
Ardent Health
Ardent Health is betting that a hospital system can stay local while its technology, purchasing and operating discipline scale nationally. Across six states, the result is a care network stretching from the emergency room to the smartphone.
El Camino Health
El Camino Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system that has served Silicon Valley and the South Bay for more than 60 years. Born from a 1950s community vote and a tax that residents levied on themselves, it runs two acute care hospitals in Mountain View and Los Gatos plus roughly two dozen care locations across Santa Clara County. With 471 beds, about 4,480 employees and 1,585 physicians, it blends a community-rooted mission with the technology-forward instincts of the valley it sits in.
Vituity
Vituity is a 100% physician-owned and led multispecialty partnership delivering acute care across the United States. Founded in 1971 as California Emergency Physicians (CEP America), it rebranded as Vituity in 2018, combining 'vital' and 'acuity.' Today roughly 5,500 doctors and clinicians staff emergency departments, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesiology, psychiatry, neurology, telehealth and more across hundreds of care sites in 27+ states, treating millions of patients a year - all without private equity, insurer, or hospital-system ownership.
Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington is the Chief Executive Officer, Practice Management at Vituity, the physician-owned, multispecialty partnership headquartered in Emeryville, California. An accountant by training, he has spent more than three decades inside healthcare operations and stepped into the CEO role in 2002 after years as Vituity's CFO.