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James R. Nathan
President and Chief Executive Officer

As the chief executive of one of Florida’s largest health care systems, Mr. Nathan’s responsibilities are wide-ranging. He reports directly to the publicly elected Lee Memorial Health System Board of Directors, which has charged him with the following key duties:

Leadership Responsibilities
Conceptualize, implement and lead a shared vision of a health care delivery system, which promotes the mission of the Lee Memorial Health System. That vision is to be the best patient centered health system in Florida balancing quality, access and cost.

Work in collaboration with diverse constituencies throughout the State of Florida to clarify, communicate, and implement the Lee Memorial Health System vision in a manner which is responsive to and takes advantages of the relationships throughout this region.

Provide leadership, direction, and establish clear accountability for the development of an effective leadership structure, which is conducive to the development of a sense of System-wide collaboration between the entities within LMHS.

Promote a collaborative environment, which encourages the participation of diverse constituencies in key decision making and strategic management efforts.

Establish collaborative relationships with primary care and specialists throughout LMHS. Assure Medical Staff input and involvement in key decision making efforts, and the development/expansion of clinically related programming.

Provide leadership and direction in the system’s efforts to provide a full continuum of services in partnership with physicians, providers, payers, community agencies, and employers creating a common strategic vision and compatible values.

In collaboration with physicians, provide leadership and guidance in the development and implementation of ongoing programs to control and reduce costs, while concurrently providing the highest quality of patient care and defining improved measures to document quality standards.

Provide leadership and guidance in assessing the local marketplace; identify and respond to market opportunities for program development; work closely with community leadership, providers, and payers to establish beneficial relationships between and among groups.

Ensure that systems are in place for appropriate, efficient, and effective use of human, physician, financial, information resources and performance improvement processes.

Foster open and ongoing communication/flow of information among and between the LMHS Board, senior management, the management staff, and the physicians of the Lee Memorial Health System.

Provide for the Health System’s compliance with applicable law and regulation. As such, the President reviews and promptly responds to reports and recommendations from legal, planning, compliance, regulatory and inspecting agencies.

Professional Experience
Mr. Nathan has been affiliated with Lee Memorial for nearly a quarter century. He served in various leadership positions from 1975 to 1981, at which time he was appointed President of Lee Memorial Hospital. Over the next 16 years, as President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Nathan led Lee Memorial Hospital from a single hospital to today’s health system with five acute care hospitals, a Children’s Hospital, a Rehabilitation Hospital, a skilled nursing facility, Home Health Services, outpatient facilities, and physician group practices.

In 1997, Mr. Nathan left Lee Memorial Health System to do leadership consulting and pursue interests in national health care reform, including testimony before the U.S. Senate. In April 2000, he returned to LMHS as System President and CEO.

Education
Mr. Nathan holds Master’s degrees in both Business Administration and Health Care Administration from Xavier University. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Miami University.

Memberships/Community Involvement
Mr. Nathan is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives; a Board member of the Florida Hospital Association; Past President of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation; a Board member of the Foundation for Lee County Public Schools; and a founding board member of Lee County Pulling Together. He previously served as Chairman of the Coalition for a Drug-Free Lee County; Chairman of the Association of Voluntary Hospitals of Florida; and Campaign Chairman and President of the United Way of Lee County. He has provided national keynote presentations in such areas as transformation of health care delivery, indigent care, competition and antitrust.

updated 1/30/2008

 


James R. Nathan
President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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