Richard Pettingill
Dick Pettingill is an experienced health care executive, recently retired as the CEO of Minnesota's largest integrated care delivery organization, Allina Health System. Over the past four decades he has served in executive leadership roles with a prominent academy health center, a community based hospital and one of the country's largest HMO's. Dick is a frequent speaker on the need to reform America's health care system. He is currently serving as a 2010 Advanced Leadership fellow at Harvard University. The fellowship is a program jointly sponsored by the Kennedy School and the schools of business, education and public health.
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Healthcare Reform
The recent passage of historic healthcare reform legislation has significant implications for health providers. As a result of expanded coverage and financing, providers need to anticipate the opportunities and risks associated with the 2010 legislation. This presentation will assist providers in understanding how to develop innovative strategies to achieve economic stability during the upcoming period of unprecedented change. It will provide a framework for designing proactive plans to thrive in a growing period of uncertainty. Healthcare reform provides a unique opportunity for providers to discover new solutions to address the complex issues facing the healthcare industry.
Community Benefit and Tax Exemption
In the years ahead, not for profit healthcare should anticipate expanded scrutiny regarding the benefits and obligations of tax exemption. Providers need to invest proactively in meaningful community benefit activities that support the mission and vision of not for profit health care. Developing meaningful partnerships with the communities will be essential. This presentation will prepare providers to creativity address these challenges. The building of social capital and entrepreneurship tools will be discussed to mobilize community support and involvement. The presentation is designed to build invaluable strategic partnerships with community and civic leaders.
Inspirational Leadership
As the economic and social pressures increase for improved performance by healthcare leaders, new leadership models are essential. This presentation will focus on building strong institutional commitment to a bold mission, vision and values. It will provide leaders new tools and ideas to build a culture of organizational excellence. Leaders will develop an understanding that intense organizational change is an environment that inspires innovation. A leadership tool kit will be shared to prepare leaders for taking definitive actions. The discussion is based upon established leadership best practices and emerging ideas on new leadership models.
Strategic Governance
As the pressure builds for improved organization performance, board and management will need to think and act differently to deliver on the organization’s mission, vision and values. Boards will be held to new accountability standards to assist management to deliver on the organization’s strategy. It will also demand the board’s governance processes be evidenced based best practices. The board will be required to have competency-based standards for management and effective succession planning processes. Board membership competencies and self-assessment will be essential characteristics for high performing boards.
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Most recently Richard Pettingill served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Allina Health System, Minnesota’s largest healthcare organization. As a result of Mr. Pettingill’s leadership, Allina has emerged as one of the country’s leading integrated care delivery organizations. In testimony to his leadership, Allina was recognized by the Health Information Management System Society (HIMSS) as the recipient of the 2007 Davies Award for the innovative implementation of a comprehensive electronic health record. Mr. Pettingill was instrumental in overseeing the development of new governance processes, recruiting new executive leadership and implementing new community benefit and philanthropic programs. In June 2008, Allina announced a $100 million investment to create a Center for Healthcare Innovation. Allina’s annual revenues are in excess of $3.0 billion, employs over 24,000, operates 12 hospitals and over 65 ambulatory clinics. Allina is the largest care delivery system in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin with a market share in excess of 30%.
Prior to joining Allina in 2002, Mr. Pettingill served as the President and Chief Executive Officer, California Division, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. In his primary role, he led the overall performance of the nearly 6.0 million-member health plan throughout California. He was responsible for overseeing the performance of a 28 hospital delivery system located in major communities throughout California. In his role he worked closely with the leadership of The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California and the Southern California Permanente Medical Group which collectively have over 7,000 practicing physicians.
Mr. Pettingill was President and Chief Executive Office of Camino Healthcare; a community based integrated delivery system. As the founding CEO, Mr. Pettingill led the development of new managed care and clinical effectiveness programs. Mr. Pettingill’s extensive healthcare experience started at Stanford University Medical Center, where he served on the executive staff for ten years.
Mr. Pettingill serves on a number of community and professional boards. Mr. Pettingill serves on the Tenet Health board of directors and previously served on the Minnesota Hospital Association board of directors, the board of the Minnesota Business Partnership. He served as the chair of the Board of Directors of the California Healthcare Association. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Mr. Pettingill has a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, San Jose State University, where he was recognized as distinguished alumni in 1995. In 2005, he received the Minnesota Community Builders award for the restoration of the original 1927 Sears and Roebuck building as the new corporate headquarters for Allina Health System. In 2007, he received the Advocate of the Year Award from the MHA for leading a statewide effort to ban second hand smoke. In 2008, the Lutheran Social Services awarded him the humanitarian of the year award for launching the Backyard Initiative. In 2009, he co-chaired a Minnesota business led K-12 educational reform initiative.
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