Michael Fisher
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96 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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Eric, it's great to be with you.
And I had the privilege to be on our board of trustees, and it gave me a firsthand view of the incredible work that we were doing for children, both on the research and clinical care side, but also to make a difference in the lives of children, their families, and our community.
And having been an entrepreneur for many years, I really saw the opportunity to give back to our community, to bring some of that innovative spirit and that notion of really better serving customers, in this case, patients, families, and communities.
I was fortunate to be in a loving and caring home, had great parents as role models who taught me how to care for others and treat everyone with respect and dignity and try to make a difference.
I also went to a large urban public high school and really began to appreciate the values of diversity.
I had a chance to go to Stanford, and I think there learned a lot about collaboration, pursuit of excellence, innovation.
And then I spent the bulk of my career growing an automotive supplier globally and learned a lot about what was going on internationally.
But I think specifically on the healthcare leader side, learning from great mentors and teachers, colleagues of mine at Cincinnati Children's, like Dr. Uma Kodagal, one of the real leaders in
equality, safety, and community from people like Maureen Bisignano and Don Berwick from IHI and so many others.
And I think there was an event early in my time as the CEO at Cincinnati Children's where we lost a little boy.
That made a profound impact on me.
I already knew the importance of being focused on safety and quality, but I think that just drove really deeply into me the enormous responsibility we have for children, the responsibility we have to the community.
I would say in the early shapings was to spend time with new moms out in the community, outside the hospital.
And here are the challenges they were grappling with in these areas of social determinants or what some are increasingly calling health drivers.
And it became clear to me that we as a children's hospital in particular and certainly as an anchor institution had to find ways to do more and to be a better partner.
We see this in our primary care clinics.
We've put in food pantries because it's been clear to us that some of these children and their families literally don't know where their next meal is coming from.
So of course, the ability to be healthy, to be on a medication regimen is compromised in that kind of way if they don't have basics like food.
And so we now for a decade plus have built in a really thoughtful and appropriate screening to figure out
whether it's food insecurity, whether it's housing issues, or other kinds of things that might inhibit a child from being healthy, how to build that into the initial intake of a child during a well visit, and then to connect them with all of the right partners who we work closely with to help address those issues.
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