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A full Bornstein Amphitheater welcomed Partners HealthCare President and CEO James Mongan, MD, as he joined BWH President Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA at a special Partners Town Meeting on October 6. To kick off the meeting, Mongan shared a “Partners at Ten: A Work in Progress” video, which illustrated the major accomplishments of Partners since its creation in 1994.
Pegged by local news outlets as a “brilliant move” and a “major undertaking” when it first formed, Partners HealthCare has become a leader on the national and local health care scenes. At a time when nearly one-quarter of hospitals in Massachusetts were forced to close due to a number of economic factors, the unique partnership of BWH and MGH solidified both entities’ ability to weather the storm.
Following the video, Mongan shared his thoughts on the future of Partners and outlined the system’s five Signature Initiatives, aimed at improving quality and efficiency of care. The five initiatives address: information technology infrastructure, patient safety, reliability of quality, disease management and cost-effectiveness. Each is designed to capitalize on the important challenges and opportunities that Partners affiliates face. Partners now includes BWH, MGH, Faulkner Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, McLean Hospital, PCHI, Partners Home Care, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network and Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Center.
“Working together, Partners affiliates can add value to the next generation of patient care,” said Mongan. “We are quickly entering a phase of health care in which patient care and research will converge thanks in large part to advances in information technology and genomics. As this generation comes to be, the interaction between clinical care and science will ultimately result in real individualized medicine.”
Mongan’s words gave way to an open session, in which he and Gottlieb fielded questions from the audience. BWH’s Vice President of Human Resources Cheryl Locke moderated the exchange.