the torch Spring 2018, Issue 1 | Page 11

How will your new role and Jim have three daughters: Carmen, who’s happening at Baylor Scott & White, Hinton’s areas of responsibility 22, Catherine, who’s 20, and Carla, including virtual health and making complement each other? who’s 18. Carmen is a senior at Xavier about a number of initiatives the patient journey seamless. He’s It’s not static. Jim and I both lead also eager to help improve care with 100 percent alignment and “Because of the breadth and depth leadership responsibility to accelerate lot of clinical information and data leads us to the right allocation of continuum. I’m excited about building model is that we’re both working to health and care solutions derived both working to put the right person he said. area of responsibility. through insights derived from data. shared goals. We divvy up the of the services we provide, we have a our pace and performance. This from each segment of the care responsibility. The flexibility of this University and plans to be an elementary school teacher. Catherine is working in Utah. And Carla is a senior in high school. We didn’t plan for them all to have C’s in their names. It just turned out that way. What’s it like to return to the Lone on that and developing management, not overlap each other, and we’re Star State? from data analytics capabilities,” leading the right initiative and the right I love the diversity of people and cultures. And then this “anything is possible” spirit is striking. It’s distinctly different from other parts of How do you help establish a vision Where did you grow up? the country. Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It’s like for the system’s future when there is so much uncer-tainty in the Mayberry, but in Wisconsin. There are After living in Chicago so long, do a lot of lakes and rivers, and I spent a you prefer New York style pizza or health care space right now? To get us started, there are clear lot of time outdoors, swim-ming, deep dish? “no-regret” moves. We have to be hiking, hunting and fishing. For value for our patients and health plan Michigan. After undergrad, I was a crystal-clear view of the future. applied to graduate school. It was willing to make decisions that improve undergrad, I went to the University of members, even though we don’t have volunteering in Nome, Alaska, when I Becoming more ef ficient and about 20 degrees below zero, and I are pretty good things under any schools in the Northeast. The Texas I like them both. But