St. Charles Health System competitors

Dr. Ellner is the President and CEO of Centura Health Physician Group, a 600 provider, employed multi-specialty group headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. Centura Health is a 17 hospital health system focused on connecting Colorado and western Kansas to affordable, world-class care with $1.3 billion in annual revenues. Dr. Ellner has completed a Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and National Patient Safety Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow with the Health Research Educational Trust and a member of the AHA Committee on Clinical Leadership. His work focuses on communication and culture change in the healthcare workplace to improve patient outcomes. He was Chairman and founding member of the Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative, a statewide, data sharing framework for all Connecticut hospitals to learn from one another using best practices. As an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Ellner created a four-year patient safety curriculum for medical students and a yearlong "Leading Surgical Quality" curriculum for the surgical residents. He has written numerous peer-review articles on the subject of patient safety and is considered to be one of the "50 Leading Experts" on the subject by Becker’s Hospital Review. Dr. Ellner holds a Master’s Degree in Health Care Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has written case studies on surgical quality for the school to use as part of their curriculum. Dr. Ellner has appeared live on the Today Show, Larry King Live, NBC CT 30, NPR and has had articles in the CT Mirror, the Hartford Courant, the Wall Street Journal, Hartford Magazine, Hartford Business Journal, the HFMA e-Bulletin, Outpatient Surgery Magazine, Becker's Clinical Review, the American College of Surgeons Bulletin and the AHA Hospital and Health Networks Online Magazine for patient safety and health care quality improvement.

Kathryn Correia is a President & Chief Executive Officer at Legacy Health, Pres/CEO at Legacy Health Employees Retirement Plan, and Board Member at HEALTHEAST CARE SYSTEM and is based in Portland, Oregon. She has worked as Vice President, Geisinger Health System at Geisinger; President/CEO at HEALTHEAST CARE SYSTEM; and President, Appleton Medical Center and Theda Clark Medical Center, SVP, ThedaCare at ThedaCare. Kathryn studied at The Ohio State University between 1980 and 1982 and Denison University.

Philip 'Phil' Incarnati is a Board Member at Reliant Renal Care Inc, Board Member at PYRAMID HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, and President/CEO at McLaren Health Care. He has worked as Board Member at Theragenics Corporation; Board Member at HBO; and Board Member at PREMIER, INC.. Philip works or has worked at Detroit Receiving Hospital & Univ Hlth Ctr and Wayne State University. He studied at Eastern Michigan University.

Bruce Butler is a Chief Executive Officer, Samaritan Health Plans at Samaritan Health Services and is based in Corvallis, Oregon. He has worked as Partner at Tatum; Senior Consultant at PREMIER, INC.; and VP Underwriting at Medical Alliance Partnership LP. Bruce attended Stanford University between 1975 and 1979, Hinsdale Central School between 1971 and 1975, and University of Chicago Booth School of Business between 1980 and 1984.

Recently named \'Person of the Year\' for Klamath County by the Herald & News. Past Chairman, and current board member, for Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. Member of the Board of Governors for Oregon Institute of Technology. Recently named by Becker's Healthcare Review as one of \'50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know - 2015\'. Previously named by same publication as one of \'300 Hospital and Health System Leaders to Know - 2013\'.