Four large nonprofit health systems have been formed: Baylor Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Novant Health and Providence. health length, an organization created to improve core operational functions and transform health system performance.
Although the press release announcing the new organization didn’t give many details, it said Longitude “will address healthcare’s most complex challenges and opportunities.”
Paul Mango, former chief of staff at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, and McKinsey U.S. healthcare practice leader and global healthcare practice leader , has been appointed CEO and board of directors. Member of Longitude Health.
Longitude Health’s board of directors is made up of the CEOs of the founding member organizations in addition to Mango. Pete McCanna, CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health, has been named chairman of the board.
“Longitude Health will scale the next generation of capabilities more quickly and effectively than if individual health systems tried to do it themselves,” McCanna said in a statement. “Our goal is to set a new standard, demonstrating that new approaches can optimize the performance and quality of organizations and drive positive systemic change for the benefit of patients.”
The founding members will collectively invest in initiatives over the next five years. In the short term, Longitude Health intends to make multiple strategic investments focused on areas that can generate impact during the first 12 to 24 months of the organization’s formation. Additionally, the organization will seek to have other members of the health system join the organization over time.
