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WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP 23 idea that women are very different from men. at's not an earth-shattering statement, but with regard to healthcare, they are different. I used to host a men's health show on Sirius XM and we would get call-ins from people with questions. It was always the wives that called about their husbands. What I learned, and what I think a lot of people already know, is that men really don't seek healthcare until they're broken, until something's wrong. ey're not very good at preventive care. ey're not very good at viewing their health in a very holistic manner. e opportunity with men's health is to repair that cultural bias. If you can prevent disease, you will ultimately reduce healthcare expenditure over time, rather than treating people when they come in with a massive [myocardial infarction] or when they have a stroke. If you could avoid it through good cardiac health and prevention you would improve overall healthcare outcomes and reduce cost. e idea for men's health that I'm hoping to promote at Northwell is that we will bring men in for the diseases or the things they care about. We'll have an open portal, a Men's Health Initiative, where men may seek care for their prostate enlargement and urinary symptoms or low testosterone level. Once they're in the door, they will be exposed to comprehensive care and that might include prostate cancer screening, if appropriate. It might include cardiac evaluation or education about weight loss, improving their diet or improving their lifestyle, smoking cessation — all the things that men will not walk in the door to seek. We're going to try to expose them through the conduit of men's health. If we can achieve that across our system and duplicate that model, it will have a huge impact on healthcare in general. [e Men's Health Initiative] is very in line with Northwell's community initiatives of trying to be a leader in treating the whole patient and all the issues that affect them beyond simply, you know, what they show up in the ER for. Q: What are your top priorities as you move into this new role? ST: ey all fall upon the idea of system integration. Michael Dowling talks about this concept of systemness, meaning we do things that are good for the system. My goal is to really draw the system together to elevate the stature and national visibility of Northwell Urology. is will also enable us to be more productive in innovation, research and clinical trials. I want to leverage this large network to be more effective with academic endeavors. Northwell is already, from a size and an expansion perspective, probably where most healthcare systems will want to be 10 years from now. If we're already where we need to be, then there's an opportunity to figure out how academic urology works in our system. How do you keep quality equal across all the sites? How do you leverage this large network to be more effective in research, more effective in measuring outcomes, more effective in clinical trials? ose are really my top priorities. n Intermountain hospital taps president By Kelly Gooch A my Blasing, MSN, was appointed president of Intermountain Health's St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, effective July 28. Ms. Blasing brings more than three decades of experience to the new role, according to a July 8 hospital news release. Most recently, she served as CEO of Lovelace Westside Hospital and Lovelace Women's Hospital of Ardent Health/ Lovelace Health System in Albuquerque, N.M. "Amy shared that she was drawn to this position because of the impeccable reputation Saint Joseph Hospital has for delivering high-quality, compassionate care," Scott Peek, president of Intermountain Health's Front Range market, said in the release. "She is very excited to join an organization with such a long history of caring for the community and plans to spend her first 100 days getting to know caregivers and providers and developing relationships in the community." Intermountain Health is a 33-hospital system based in Salt Lake City. n ADVERTISINGINDEX Note: Ad page number(s) given in parentheses Baptist Health. baptisthealth.net/innovation (pgs. 11-14) Impact Advisors. impact-advisors.com (pg. 3) Staples. staplesadvantage.com/healthcaresupplychain (pg. 24)