Becker's Hospital Review

43 WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP 43 CEO / STRATEGY Walmart Health files to add 7 locations in Florida By Hannah Mitchell W almart Health is opening primary care clinics throughout North- east Florida, according to a Sept. 7 Jax Daily Record report. Four details: 1. Walmart registered names for seven Walmart Health centers to offer pri- mary care, urgent care, dental services, imaging, counseling, optical, lab and hearing services. The company is building some health centers within its stores, while some Supercenters are being expanded to house clinics. 2. The retail giant registered its locations using fictitious names Aug. 5, 6 and 10, according to the report. The owner of the fictitious names is shown as MC Medical of GA, based at Walmart's headquarters. 3. Walmart said Sept. 17, 2020, that it would build seven Walmart Health centers in Jacksonville, Fla., with the first opening in 2021. The timeline appears to be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report 4. Walmart Health opened its first center in Georgia in September 2019. Walmart Health has not announced opening dates for its Florida locations. n BayCare CEO voices concern over fallout from Biden's large employer vaccine mandate By Hannah Mitchell T ommy Inzina, the CEO of Clearwater, Fla.- based BayCare, wrote a letter to the communi- ty expressing his concern over how a vaccine mandate will affect hospital staffing aer President Joe Biden's Sept. 9 announcement that all employers with more than 100 employees will have to require vaccines for their staff or require weekly COVID-19 testing, according to a Sept. 9 report by Tampa Bay 10. Seven takeaways: 1. Mr. Inzina said the mandate will create hardships for his system, which has more than 28,000 employees. Nearly half (44 percent) of BayCare's staff opted out of getting vaccinated. 2. Mr. Inzina said he encourages his staff to get vac- cinated to limit the spread of COVID-19 within em- ployees' families and maintain a healthy workforce. However, workforce challenges make it difficult to risk losing staff. 3. "is onslaught of patients comes as our industry's workforce is already stretched from the crisis," Mr. Inzi- na said. "Every local hospital leader would tell you the same thing: It is the most severe staffing challenges we have seen in our lifetimes and relief is not yet in sight." 4. A vaccine mandate could create a negative effect on healthcare access in Central Florida, where his hospi- tals are based, according to Mr. Inzina. 5. "In recent months, as our hospitals filled with record numbers of sick patients, we knew we risked alienat- ing a not-insignificant number of our team members," he said in September. "If even a small fraction of our non-vaccinated team members choose to exit the workforce rather than get vaccinated, we'd have even fewer team members to take care of patients, COVID or otherwise." 6. According to Mr. Inzina, if employees chose to de- part, it could have a direct effect on patient care. With fewer nurses, each nurse will have to take on more pa- tients. With less staff, wait times at the emergency room will be longer. A smaller team means each test result will take longer to read. 7. Mr. Inzina emphasized that regardless of the added challenges, BayCare will comply with the vaccine man- date on the timeline given by the federal government. n RWJBarnabas Health shakes up hospital leadership: 4 things to know By Kelly Gooch R WJBarnabas Health, a West Orange, N.J.-based system with 35,000 employees, disclosed Sept. 7 hospital leadership team changes at its Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., including the departures of executives. Four things to know: 1. RWJBarnabas Health disclosed the departures of Saint Barnabas President and CEO Stephen Zieniewicz, COO Patrick Haughey, Chief Nursing Officer Margaret Lundberg-Cook, RN, and Vice President of Am- bulatory Services Ceu Cirne-Neves, according to an internal memo ob- tained by NJ Advance Media. The memo did not offer a detailed reason for the departures. 2. In a statement shared with Becker's, RWJBarnabas Health said, "Several leadership transitions were made … at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Although the facility is already incredibly strong both clinically and finan- cially, these strategic moves will better position the medical center for even greater success in the future. The organization is very grateful for the contributions of the prior leadership team and wishes them well." 3. Richard "Rick" Davis, who was promoted to CFO of the health system's Northern region in 2019, was named president and CEO of Saint Barna- bas Medical Center. 4. Jennifer O'Neill, DNP, who has served as senior vice president, chief nurse executive and COO at New York City-based Hospital for Special Sur- gery's main campus the last two years, was named COO of Saint Barnabas Medical Center. n

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