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Amy Hart and the Long Game of Staying Independent
In Crosby, Minnesota, a former compliance officer is testing a practical proposition: a rural hospital can stay independent, recruit for difficult jobs and bring sophisticated care closer to home - if its leader is willing to play the long game.
Kevin Cross Built a Career Out of the Space Between Five Clinics and a Network
The Nashville founder keeps returning to one stubborn business problem: how to give local healthcare the reach of a network without sanding away what makes it local.
Tracey Schroeder Made One Name Carry the Weight of Seven
The TruBridge CMO inherited a thicket of familiar brands. Her answer was not a louder logo, but a patient campaign to make one name mean more.
Deborah Mabin Built a Career Where Medicine Meets the Map
From diagnostic radiology in The Pas to health-system leadership across Manitoba, Deborah Mabin's public record is a study in the quiet work of making institutions hold together.
The 61,000-Square-Kilometre Health Network Betting That Rural Care Should Grow Its Own Talent
Interlake-Eastern RHA cannot shrink Manitoba's distances. So it is changing who gets trained, where specialists show up and how patients enter the system - a practical rural-health playbook with visible gains and stubborn limits.
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.
Vave Health
Vave Health is a San Jose-based medical device company making point-of-care ultrasound portable, wireless, and affordable. Founded in 2015 by Stanford PhD Amin Nikoozadeh, its handheld probes pair with any iPhone or Android device and carry no subscription fees, aiming to put diagnostic imaging in the hands of clinicians, students, and underserved communities worldwide.
Medsien
Medsien is a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company building AI-powered remote care management software and services for hospitals, ACOs, FQHCs and independent practices. It bundles CCM, RPM, RTM, PCM, APCM and TCM workflows into one platform, pairs them with dedicated certified care partners, and automates patient eligibility, outreach, time tracking, billing and reporting.
Marina Kusserow
Marina Kusserow is an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the Bio+Health team, where she leads healthcare business development strategy across payers, providers, and large employers. A health policy graduate who cut her teeth at Oxeon Partners, then became Chief of Staff for Walmart Health's clinical delivery team, then tackled M&A at Unite Us, Marina now serves as connective tissue between a16z's portfolio companies and the broader healthcare ecosystem. She splits her time between New York City and Nashville, Tennessee.