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33 2015 YEAR REVIEW in 7. "For the wealthiest country in the world…to not have fig- ured out access to basic healthcare as a fundamental right for individuals, I think is a little bit of a national embarrassment." John Jay Shannon, MD, CEO of Cook County Health & Hospitals System in Chicago 8. "e inaccurate media reports on our program have made it significantly more challenging to build sustainable volume in our program. At this time we feel it is best to focus on other services needed by our community." Statement from St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., on the decision to permanently close its pediatric cardio- thoracic surgery program following a CNN report revealing the hospital's open-heart surgery death rate was more than three times the national average 9. "It's gotta go. Repeal and replace with something terrific." Donald Trump, candidate for the Republican presidential nom- ination, on the Affordable Care Act, in an interview with CNN 10. "Repeal of the ACA would let insurers write their own rules again, and wipe out coverage for 16 million Americans." Hillary Rodham Clinton, candidate for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination, on Twitter 11. "Detroit has gone through incredibly difficult times, with bankruptcy and a 30 percent drop in the population. We have to constantly think about how to drive strategy to grow an organization that's not in a market that's growing." Nancy M. Schlichting, CEO of Henry Ford Health System in De- troit, at the Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting 12. "Bob Dylan, to improve my language skills, I've read all your lyrics. I can read 800 million pages per second. My analy- sis shows your major themes are time passes and love fades." IBM Watson, artificial intelligence robot that moved into health IT this year, on Bob Dylan's repertoire 13. "Although every hospital has a chargemaster, officials treat it as if it were an eccentric uncle living in the attic. Whenever I asked, they deflected all conversation away from it. ey even argued that it is irrelevant." Steven Brill, journalist, on hospital prices in "Bitter Pill," in TIME 14. "Now more than ever do we need all hands on deck. Physi- cians, social workers, nurses and case managers are all needed to make sure the care continuum is addressed." Gyasi C. Chisley, CEO of Methodist North Hospital and senior vice president of Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare in Memphis, Tenn., at the Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting 15. "e essence of leadership is having the ability to alter what people think is possible, convince them that effort would be worth it and show them how it was their idea all along." Teri Fontenot, president and CEO of Baton Rouge, La.-based Woman's Hospital, at the Becker's Hospital Review 6th Annual Meeting 16. "I think more and more people, for various reasons, are going to want to go salaried somehow. I don't have anything against private practice. In fact, I'm delighted to have private practitioners. But clearly the practice across the United States is going more and more to employed physicians." Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, in The Akron Beacon Journal 17. "It is almost impossible to clean correctly." Mark Duro, the director of sterile processing operations at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, on duodenoscopes linked to superbug infections and patient deaths 18. "We feel healthcare providers need to be reminded con- stantly about having this conversation in the outpatient space. ey need to see the torture — it's not glamorous at all if you ignore these conversations." Zubin "ZDogg MD" Damania, MD, founder and CEO of Turnta- ble Health in Las Vegas, on end-of-life care discussions 19. "I need to create the end of patients needing to see us." Rod Hochman, MD, president and CEO of Providence Health & Services in Renton, Wash., referring to the goal he has in mind for his system's population health efforts, at the Becker's Hospi- tal Review 6th Annual Meeting 20. "We are all in some state of transition from a volume- to value-based payment system. It takes an enormous amount of resources to track and improve on hundreds of core measures and outcome metrics. Prioritizing and focusing the team on the most critical elements requires great discipline." Mary Lou Mastro, RN, president and CEO of Elmhurst (Ill.) Me- morial Healthcare 21. "I oppose Obamacare and believe it has failed. It drove up premiums, took insurance away from people who were prom- ised otherwise and usurped state programs. As I said in the campaign, I'd repeal it and replace it with state-craed plans." Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, in The Boston Globe 22. "We think it was false, and we think it was misleading." Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos on The Wall Street Journal's report alleging the blood-test startup does not live up to its claims 23. "In the past I wasn't involved in many of the quality and infection control meetings, but with readmissions im-

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