Chris Van Gorder, President And CEO Of Scripps Health Will Be Speaking At The National Healthcare CXO Summit In October!

Marcus Evans is very proud to announce Chris Van Gorder, President and CEO of Scripps Health as a speaker at the National Healthcare CXO Summit taking place on October 14-16, 2018 at the Westin Mission Hills Golf Resort and Spa in Palm Springs, CA.

As President and CEO of Scripps Health since 2000, Chris Van Gorder has been instrumental in positioning Scripps among the nation’s foremost health care institutions. Now he is leading the restructure of the $3.1 billion, integrated health system to align with the new landscape of health care reform.

Board certified in health care management and an American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Fellow, he also served as 2010 chairman of the association – an international professional society of more than 40,000 health care executives who lead hospitals, health care systems and other health care organizations.

At Scripps Health, Van Gorder oversees all functions of the integrated health system. More than 15,000 employees and 3,000 affiliated physicians provide care at Scripps, which has made the Fortune magazine “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 10 consecutive years. On the quality front, Scripps has been named to both the U.S. News Best Hospitals list and the Truven Health Analytics 100 Top Hospitals list for several years running.

Named CEO shortly after his arrival at Scripps in 1999, the organization was losing $15 million a year, and employee and physician confidence had hit bottom. Van Gorder responded with a transparent, co-management style, configured an award-winning executive team, streamlined business operations and focused on internal efficiencies, physician relations and workplace culture – leading to a landmark turnaround. In 2008, Van Gorder and the executive team were named the Top Leadership Team in Health Care for large health systems by HealthLeaders magazine. And in 2016, Modern Healthcare for the eighth time named Van Gorder one of the nation’s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.”

Van Gorder’s rise to health care executive has been unconventional. His journey began as a hospital patient, when as a police officer he was critically injured during a family dispute call. After a lengthy recovery and starting a new career in hospital security, Van Gorder continued his education in health care management and rose to levels of increased responsibility.

Van Gorder received his master’s degree in public administration/health services administration at the University of Southern California, completed the Wharton CEO Program at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Los Angeles. He continues to serve the public as a reserve assistant sheriff in the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, in charge of the Law Enforcement and Search and Rescue Reserves. He also is a licensed emergency medical technician (EMT) and an instructor for the American Red Cross.

Van Gorder’s first book – The Front-Line Leader: Building a High Performance Organization from the Ground Up – was published in November 2014. He now regularly writes on leadership, corporate culture and health care through his front-line leadership blog – #Frontlineleader – and on Twitter @ChrisDVanGorder.

At the National Healthcare CXO Summit, Chris Van Gorder will be speaking about ‘Effecting Significant Change through Front-Line Leadership’ and he will share more in this enlightening keynote that highlights the transformative power of front-line leadership and how a strong corporate culture can help sustain an organization in bad times, good times and times of extreme change.

Hence this year National Healthcare CXO Summit will be looking at fusing these modern day essentials into an event where attendees gather insights from world-class experts, connect with accomplished colleagues, and join forces with specialist advisors.