Adam Rudd is Southern Hills Hospital's CEO.
Tell us about your education and professional background.
• Georgia Tech – Industrial Engineer with with MBA from University of Colorado
• Consulting, Duke University Hospital, and 13 years with HCA
• Worked for HCA in Denver, Tampa, Myrtle Beach and Las Vegas
Describe your management style.
Empower your leaders to make good decisions, hold them accountable, and let them lead the team to success as a unified team. Provide a strategic direction and allow these great leaders show you how to get there.
What are your goals for the hospital?
Continue to be the community choice for healthcare — high touch, highest quality, and exceed our patients’ expectations.
What are the most immediate needs of Southern Hills Hospital? What are your plans for filling them?
It is a great hospital that has served this area for 11+ years — it is time to update the waiting rooms and begin updating the patient care areas. The other issue is bed capacity — we stay full and need additional beds, and opening a new floor in April 2016, which will expand our hospital by 46 beds.
What are some of the assets at the hospital that you plan to build on?
We have a great culture of teamwork — great staff and physician team, and a growing population in our area that considers us their hospital of choice.
What is the biggest difference between Southern Hills Hospital and the other hospitals you’ve worked with?
Every hospital is so different because of the patients that you serve. The one similar thread is that every hospital always needs to be about a patient. When we live by that 24/7, the high patient satisfaction and experience are simply wonderful outcomes.
What is the biggest problem you see in the health care industry in general?
Behavioral health — many patients go untreated with no options. Fortunately, we opened a 14-bed geriatric psychiatric inpatient unit and established outpatient treatment programs for our seniors in the community, providing yet another resource for this specialized care.
How’s the expansion progressing?
Great! We have a new floor opening in April 2016, which adds 46 beds to our hospital. This unit will provide additional orthopedic service beds, answering the need for more orthopedic resources as our population continues to age.
What’s the most rewarding part of your job?
Everyday our team gets to touch the lives of our community and make a lasting, positive impression on patients and their families that we assisted them in their time of need. Now, that’s powerful.