Benjamin Anderson
Improving the health status of people in America's most underserved communities is the mission and calling of Benjamin Anderson, MBA, MHCDS, who currently serves as CEO of Kearny County Hospital, a comprehensive rural health complex located in southwest Kansas.
Raised on the rougher side of California's Bay Area, Anderson experienced poverty during his childhood years. These formative experiences played a major role in Anderson's decision to find ways to improve the lives of underserved, distressed people.
His career in healthcare administration began in 2009 as CEO of Ashland Health Center, a struggling hospital and the only health provider in a Kansas town of 900 people. There, he led an effort that dramatically revitalized the community's healthcare services, recruiting and retaining several medical providers to serve a multi-county area between Kansas and Oklahoma.
Since arriving at Kearny County Hospital, Anderson received national acclaim for his work in physician recruitment, health promotion, women's health initiatives, and rural healthcare delivery innovation.
His speaking experiences range from being a keynote speaker at the Oregon Rural Health Conference to conducting strategy retreats for rural hospital boards, speaking to senior leadership teams in urban hospitals, intimate education sessions at physician residencies, being a panelist for hospital association conferences and webinars, tabletop discussion moderator for ACHE meetings, and serving as a panelist at the Dartmouth College Symposium on Healthcare Delivery Science.
Anderson is a talented storyteller, known for tying his own experiences to applicable lessons. His laid-back, humorous, narrative and interactive style leads his audiences toward embracing change and choosing their own destiny, interweaving a compelling moral case for serving our nation's most vulnerable people.
Improving the health status of people in America's most underserved communities is the mission and calling of Benjamin Anderson, MBA, MHCDS, who currently serves as CEO of Kearny County Hospital, a comprehensive rural health complex located in southwest Kansas.
Raised on the rougher side of California's Bay Area, Anderson experienced poverty during his childhood years. These formative experiences played a major role in Anderson's decision to find ways to improve the lives of underserved, distressed people.
His career in healthcare administration began in 2009 as CEO of Ashland Health Center, a struggling hospital and the only health provider in a Kansas town of 900 people. There, he led an effort that dramatically revitalized the community's healthcare services, recruiting and retaining several medical providers to serve a multi-county area between Kansas and Oklahoma.
Since arriving at Kearny County Hospital, Anderson received national acclaim for his work in physician recruitment, health promotion, women's health initiatives, and rural healthcare delivery innovation.
His speaking experiences range from being a keynote speaker at the Oregon Rural Health Conference to conducting strategy retreats for rural hospital boards, speaking to senior leadership teams in urban hospitals, intimate education sessions at physician residencies, being a panelist for hospital association conferences and webinars, tabletop discussion moderator for ACHE meetings, and serving as a panelist at the Dartmouth College Symposium on Healthcare Delivery Science.
Anderson is a talented storyteller, known for tying his own experiences to applicable lessons. His laid-back, humorous, narrative and interactive style leads his audiences toward embracing change and choosing their own destiny, interweaving a compelling moral case for serving our nation's most vulnerable people.
Population Health – Defining Outcomes by Asking the Right Questions
Value-based healthcare delivery in its simplest form is the practice of measuring changes in health outcomes against the cost of producing them. Yet, effectively measuring these outcomes is a complex process that requires the intervention of mission-focused, adaptive leadership. One of the most common barriers to producing meaningful outcomes is our failure to ask the right questions. In traditional patient satisfaction surveys, hospitals often inquire about the taste of food quality,...
Shared Decision Making and Care Coordination– Life or Death
In March of 2013, Benjamin's 34-day-old daughter was hospitalized with an acute cardiac condition that caused her heart rate to increase to over 300 beats per minute. Within 24 hours, she was transported by ambulance and airplane through three states and to three different hospitals. By the time she arrived at her final destination, she was in critical condition. With this true story, Benjamin leads his audience through an exhilarating and, at times, disheartening journey of seeking...
An Ethical Case for Excellence in Healthcare Delivery
Mission-Focused Medicine in Rural America – An Innovative Solution for Physician Recruitment and Ret
