Glenn Crotty Jr ., M . D .
Executive Vice President , Vandalia Health ; President , CAMC Health System
ALICIA WILLARD
From growing up in Mullens , WV , to pursuing his bachelor ’ s degree , medical degree , residency and fellowship in the Mountain State , Glenn Crotty Jr ., M . D ., executive vice president of Vandalia Health and president of Charleston Area Medical Center ( CAMC ) Health System , has lived and worked in West Virginia for more than 70 years .
“ West Virginia is a friendly place with low crime and a great environment to raise a family . I had great experiences growing up in the Mountain State , and it has always been home ,” Crotty says . “ My family modeled a great work ethic and compassion for others that served me well .”
Influenced into medicine by his grandmother ’ s family , Crotty ’ s greatgrandfather was a country physician from Fayette County . His great uncle was a pharmacist and would regale Crotty with stories of Grandpa Hunter delivering babies in the region by traveling on horseback to rural parts of the county .
Following in his family ’ s footsteps , Crotty started his career as an endocrinologist in 1982 , treating patients with diabetes and other metabolic disorders at the private practice Charleston Endocrinology . After practicing medicine for 16 years and teaching as an assistant clinical professor of medicine
Photo by Charleston Area Medical Center .
at West Virginia University School of Medicine ’ s Charleston Campus , he advanced to associate clinical professor in the CAMC internal medicine program .
During this time , he treated and admitted patients while serving as an attending physician in the internal medicine inpatient teaching service until he developed an interest in care quality and utilization . Pursuing this interest , Crotty worked to develop an avoidable delay program to improve hospital processes . While working part time for Carelink Health Plan as medical director in the 1990s , Crotty also developed an interest in administrative medicine .
After moving to CAMC Health System as the chief medical officer , he merged his interests and started improving processes for patient care and issues causing delays for physicians and staff . With Crotty leading these efforts , CAMC began partnering with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , collaborating with several children ’ s hospitals to test new improvement methods for the care of children .
Advancing to chief operating officer , Crotty furthered efficiencies by working to integrate improvement methodologies that helped improve the quality and cost of care . Crotty now manages the operations , bed flow , staffing and distribution of goods and services to the
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