Jan Ricks Jennings
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Consulting |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | Entered healthcare administration as an Officer in the U.S. Air Force Medical Service Corps in 1970. Master's Degree in Hospital Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. Served the Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Shadyside Hospital. At the age of 33 assumed first CEO position at St. Luke's Memorial in Utica, New York and won the prestigious Young Hospital Administrator of the Year Award from the ACHE in 1983. Served as CEO of the Millard Fillmore Hospital System for ten years in Buffalo. In 1993 became CEO of Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital in affiliation with Northwestern University Medical School. Mr. Jennings has taught Health Policy at the Jacobs School of Management at the University at Buffalo. Was CEO at Jefferson Regional Medical School in Pittsburgh and launched a dramatic turnaround from 2000 to 2003. American Healthcare Solutions was formed in 2004 and has advocated for those hospitals, physicians and health systems that have struggled, both financially and clinically. Mr. Jennings in known to express strong policy positions with respect to healthcare reform and is frequently referred to as America's "Health Care Thought Provocateur." |
| Interests | Movies, Cruising, Religious History, Political Junkie and Good Food! |
| Favorite Movies | "The Efficiency Expert", little known Australia film, that pokes fun, "kidding on the level", at typical management philosophy, that employees are cogs, on, the "wheel of fortune", Anthony Hopkins thought the movie was important enough, to work on the film for peanuts |
| Favorite Music | Liturgical Music, to Classic Rock, Everything, but Rap, do not understand it |
| Favorite Books | The Road Less Traveled! |
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