LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW SERIES

Interview with James M Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

J L Reinertsen

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
J L Reinertsen
Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, President, The Reinertsen Group, 375 East Aspen Meadow Lane, Alta, Wyoming 83414, USA; jim@reinertsengroup.com

Accepted 16 October 2006

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Jim Anderson became CEO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) in 1996, after serving on the Board of Cincinnati Children’s for 20 years, including four years as Chairman. A lawyer and manufacturing executive by background, Jim has shepherded Cincinnati Children’s to unprecedented levels of excellence in patient care, teaching and research. Cincinnati Children’s ranks third among all paediatric hospitals in NIH-funded research, and is among the top 3 or 4 children’s academic centres nationwide in scale and quality of teaching and care. A participant in the Robert Wood Johnson/IHI Pursuing Perfection initiative, CCHMC has earned an international reputation for quality, and in 2006 was awarded the McKesson Quest for Quality Prize in recognition of its extraordinary accomplishments. In particular, the AHA recognised Cincinnati Children’s exceptional commitment to patient-centredness, and its achievement of stunning results (see table 1). Mr Anderson was interviewed in August 2006 about leadership for quality . . . [Full text of this article]

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