clinic staffs since 2000.) But the benefits of having the doctors who deliver the babies on campus instead of in scattered offices are obvious, Granger says. It’s the Mayo Model—the idea that physi- cians consider themselves part of a unit, “a culture,” Granger says, “of one.”


Columbus Regional Healthcare System Chuck Stark is only moments away from the ceremonial open-


ing of the CRHS’ brand-new Pediatric Emergency Department downstairs when he pauses in his Medical Center office to talk to a reporter about the crisis in medical care funding. In spite of his tight schedule, it’s pretty good timing. Philanthropy—exactly like the $1.5 million giſt from Aflac President Paul S. Amos II and his wife Courtney Amos that built the pediatric ER, in honor of Columbus pediatrician Kathryn Cheek—is what will be needed to meet reductions in federal funds and what he sees as the inevitable end of Medicare. “If we accept, as a society, entitlement of health care services,


then we as a society have to decide how to fund that,” says Stark, president and chief operations officer of the many-branched Columbus Regional Healthcare System. “Tere will be more


“You’ve got to manage the expenses that you have. The difference is not brick and mortar or how many new towers. We have a culture of service to the community.” -Chuck Stark


Columbus Regional Healthcare System CEO Chuck Stark


AUGUST 2013


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