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Welcome, friends.
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This is DR’s Krishna and Veer Vedala.
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And we are the Vedala Bros.
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So in this podcast, we'll be discussing
important medical topics
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that affect your community.
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We'll be looking into medical research
Health and wellness tips
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and also available health
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care resources brought to you
by the Norman Regional Health System.
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That's right.
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And in each episode, we'll also be joined
by medical professionals,
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local community leaders
and even some of our friendly neighbors
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as we talk through various issues
that are affecting our community.
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So if you want to lead healthy lives
or learn about the new healthy trends,
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we want this podcast to be your
go to resource.
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Welcome back, my friends. Dr.
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Veer Vedala again
here, joined by my co-host, Dr.
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Krishna Vedala and we are the Vedala Bros.
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Thank you again for joining us for yet
another episode
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of Vital Visions,
where we discuss all things vital.
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Norman Regional Hospital opened its doors
to patients on June
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2nd, 1946, led by one of Norman's own, Dr.
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John L Day.
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It was a hospital that started with 61
beds with a staff of 29 employees.
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Now it is a leader in health care for
the residents of South central Oklahoma.
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With more than 3000 employees
spread across four main campuses,
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more than 30 clinics and offices,
and recognized with dozens
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of national and local awards
and five accredited centers of excellence.
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But the success of organization
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is not solely determined
by its products or services,
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but by the collective passion, dedication
and vision of its leaders
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and one such leader is with us today,
our very own CEO and president, Mr.
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Richie Splitt.
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Thank you so much for being here
today, sir.
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Krishna, please give our guest an intro.
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Thank you so much, Dr. Vedala. So,
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this gentleman that we're
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about to hear talk today,
someone that, I've come to know
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over the last year and a half
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since I started working here at Norman
Regional, And I have to say,
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for being the president and CEO, Mr.
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Splitt is one of the most relaxed,
one of the most genuine
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and one of the most friendliest CEOs
that I've ever met in my life.
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And it's kind of surprising
because the first thing he always says is
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Call me Richie,
and you do not see that a whole lot.
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and so without further ado, Mr.
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Richie Splitt.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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I'm so happy to be here.
Thank you for that introduction.
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thank you. Thank you.
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so tell us,
what got you interested in health care
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and specifically what got you interested
in health care administration?
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You know, it's, It was a long road
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to health care administration
for me, so I had
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a summer job in 1987.
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That was physical therapy.
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And it was literally
two weeks into the job.
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And I knew health
care was was somehow in my blood.
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It sounds odd to say, but I knew that
I was being called to the profession
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and I was because of
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even in that short amount of time,
seeing the impact
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that I could have on a patient's day,
a patient's experience,
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and really how special health care
providers are
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who are working in that field,
trying to help others to be
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the best version of themselves, to heal
and to recover.
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And I knew it was special
and I knew I had to be a part of that.
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That's wow, that's just amazing.
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just goes to speak that
some of us have a calling, you know?
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So I've been a little bit more active
on LinkedIn recently, sir
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and something that popped up recently
is that you're celebrating your ten year
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anniversary at Norman Regional.
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And, and it was seven
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of those years of being CEO, am I correct?
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Yes. Seven years or there about.
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And I think that's that's amazing, right?
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I mean, you know, working in different
hospital corporations for residency
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and then our very first jobs and stuff
and you know we talk to leadership
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and learn about things
and, and, you know, so
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talking to one of my friends who was also
in health care administration, Mr.
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Dillon Clark, shout out, anyways,
he was telling me like the average,
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span, tenure
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as a CEO is like around
five years or so and you're at seven.
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it's a very stressful job.
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And I was curious to see like what,
what is your, obviously
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have a passion for this
and you found your calling, but
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can you describe to us like,
how do you do this every day? And.
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Well probably in a in a similar way
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that you both do your jobs, you get up,
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you've got a spring in your step because
you know you can make a difference.
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That you are connected to a purpose
that you're connected
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to the mission of an organization
who's doing good work.
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until you bring that up,
that's why I had to think about that.
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How long has it been?
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And it really seems like yesterday
that I was given the opportunity
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and in this amount of time
to see the progress
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that's been made for our health system,
it's truly remarkable.
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So in my life,
I am fulfilled every day when I wake up.
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No matter the challenges, it just.
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There's something inside that
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draws me to our organization
and to the work that we do.
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And the patients. That's what it is.
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Ultimately.
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It's how
we can improve their circumstances.
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And we have some of the best people
to make that that happen.
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And so one of the things that as a CEO
that was apparent to me
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and it really started in my mind
after the tornado of May
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20th, 2013,
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in seeing our people in action,
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our caregivers doing the things they did
in spite of the losses
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that they suffered and the challenges
they were experiencing personally,
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that they were more than just employees,
that they were healers.
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That was that was our job.
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That was a part of that calling.
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And really, that's where
it started in my mind and before that
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in my heart, and just began to talk
about that throughout the organization.
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And as I became the CEO,
I really wanted to breathe
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life into that term healer,
because I believe when you're doing this
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work, it's sacred, it's important,
it's meaningful, it makes a difference.
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And that term captures what we're called
to do in the health care profession.
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Wow. Well,
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you know, you
talked about the importance of healers.
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And, but one of the things
like moving on that
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that we really wanted to talk about
today is about Inspire Health
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and so we're wondering,
you know, what really brought that upon?
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and, can you,
can you give the can of, of our audience?
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Kind of a brief overview of what
the what Inspire Health is all about.
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Sure.
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Inspire Health is a strategic plan
for Norman Regional Health System.
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And it it includes five
big construction projects that are roughly
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a million square feet for the purpose
of transforming our organization,
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modernizing what we do,
how we do it, where we do it.
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And so it's it's really about
the transformation of our health system
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and the people who serve in that in those
locations and the care that we provide.
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So it really it started before it started
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my first week on the job,
my second Monday on the job. Wow.
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And that's when that tornado of May 20
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of 2013 destroyed
our beloved Moore Medical Center.
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So we began thinking about
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how do we reposition the organization,
what do we build back?
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We knew we were coming back
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and we were going to be better than before
and stronger than before.
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And so it really started there.
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And then that led to thinking
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about how health care
was evolving over time.
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So when I was named CEO,
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I really wanted to have
and formulate a strong strategic plan.
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So we did that with our healers.
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It truly was their coauthoring.
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It was a collective co-authorship
of what the strategy looked like.
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And what should the strategy for Norman
Regional be for the next 5 to 10 years?
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And it was truly a remarkable journey.
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They we had what was called healer forums
where they were able to hear
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ideas, share ideas, and then validate
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the ideas and thoughts that we had.
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And we formulated a plan.
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That plan started out as
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it was a phrase that we used called BHAG
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BHAG is an acronym for Big, Hairy,
Audacious Goal.
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And so it literally is a moonshot.
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Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great
and a number of other books,
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that's his term, his phrase.
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And he's always inspired me
to, as a business mind,
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as a strategic thinker,
he's inspired me to emulate his principles
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in in a lot of what I like to do
and what the organization can do.
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So BHAG came from Jim Collins
and it was just simply applied
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to what we were trying to do
in terms of writing a strategy
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and then going out and achieving
that strategy.
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Inspire Health came later
and that was a process where our healers
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had the opportunity to provide the input,
what do we call BHAG, what does our BHAG
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need to be called as we roll it
out to the community and Inspire
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Health was born.
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That's really cool.
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Yeah, that's a really, really cool story.
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What do you think
are some of the challenges
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right now
that our health care system is facing?
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They're numerous and they're
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they're more intense than
they've ever been before, in my opinion.
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And they're happening across the country.
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We're all facing very similar
things and inflation is a part of that.
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Obviously,
rising costs, expenses are out of control.
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We're getting some control
of those expenses.
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But supply chain supply
costs, pharmaceuticals,
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the cost of those medications,
the workforce
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shortages, we are
we are challenged on every front.
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And I believe that it's an honor
and a privilege to be able to
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to work to address those challenges.
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Again,
we're all facing it across the country.
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It's not the only Norman
Regional's problems or issues to overcome.
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It's a maybe global issue
in terms of health care.
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So I'm I'm inspired by the opportunity
to get up every day
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and make a difference for our patients
and to be a leader in addressing these
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these headwinds that we're we're faced
with each and every day.
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So there is such great potential
for our organization.
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And when we work together,
we come together and focus
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on the right thing,
starting with the patient.
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Then I just don't know too many things
we can't overcome.
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Great, right?
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You know, like when you speak, sir, like
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you can just experience
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the visionary in you and it's inspiring.
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again, thank you for being here.
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So a lot of our listeners,
we're hoping, are going to be,
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students and learners looking into
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and being inspired by our guests
to start their own career journey.
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So would you mind
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telling go back a little bit
and talking to us about like what exactly?
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you know,
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your career trajectory
looked like with your, with your schooling
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and what health care administration is
and how are students that are interested?
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How did they get involved in that? Sure.
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So I mentioned that I started my health
care career as a summer job
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as a physical therapy technician and knew
I needed to be a part of that.
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So I proceeded to enroll
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in all the right courses to prepare me
for a potential physical therapy.
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Career and physical therapy
is a very competitive field to get into.
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There weren't a lot of programs
and there were more people than spots
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highly competitive,
and I was just sure and confident
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that I was going to be selected.
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Had a great career of of physical therapy
technician work
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and I applied for PT school.
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It was not accepted.
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And I was, you know,
a little confused by that.
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But I you know,
I continued to work in physical therapy,
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completed my undergraduate, applied for PT
school, did not work
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out, was accepted into a master's program
in health and exercise science.
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And I was also a college athlete.
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I wrestled at the University of Oklahoma
and had a wonderful time there.
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And sports psychology
was was in the forefront of my mind.
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And so I was in my graduate degree,
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was pursuing motor learning,
motor development and sports psychology.
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when I was finishing that program,
I applied to a Ph.D.
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program and physical therapy school. Again,
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I did not get into physical
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into a PhD program in South Carolina,
and my wife and I got pregnant.
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We stayed in Oklahoma.
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I and I enrolled at Oklahoma
City University
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and completed my Master's
of Business administration.
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And as I was completing my MBA,
I was still working in physical therapy
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in a copy room in the hospital
where I was working.
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I was copying my patient list
and a gentleman from the one of the
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business areas in that hospital asked me,
Do you know somebody with direct
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patient care experience
who might be interested in administration?
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And I said, Well, I'm
a month away from completing
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my MBA
and I'd love to talk to you further.
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Two weeks later, I'm working in decision
support.
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I'm running profit and loss statements
and staring at a computer.
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Wow.
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Traded in my scrubs for coat
and tie and missed my patients mightily.
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I just knew that wasn't a role for me.
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I couldn't sit behind a desk or at a desk
behind a computer for too long
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without having that interaction
and impact with patients.
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So I studied and learned
and continued my career in health care
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and said yes to a number of opportunities
until ultimately
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getting to this role
as chief executive officer.
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And I realized I, I could have
a tremendous impact on patient care
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as a CEO if
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I was making an informed decision
for the right reasons
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and for our patients, then
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I could affect the lives of
so many more patients.
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Whereas in physical therapy,
it's a great opportunity
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to connect with the patient one patient
at a time, several patients in a day.
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But as CEO, I can have a broader effect.
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And so that's what I do as a CEO
today, is try to make informed
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decisions, always remembering
why we're here.
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And it is for the patient.
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And if I can do that well, then I can
accelerate the healing process and I can
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I can open up opportunities for those
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who are providing
that care inside our health system.
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And we appreciate you for that.
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Sir. Yeah.
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Thank You for Everything that you do on a
on a daily basis.
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I'm assuming it's
mostly a 24 seven 365 day job.
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It can be, yes.
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And that's
you know, that can be difficult.
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And just knowing that, well,
you know, Saturday morning
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I want to sleep in, but maybe
there might be something else coming up.
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And that man, I just can't imagine
putting myself in that shoes.
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And this is just kind of a question
that I have personally.
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I'm getting more and more interested in
in the administration
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component of health care.
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And so I'm working on getting an MBA.
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How important
do you think for future students,
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How important do you think having an MBA
or some kind of administrative educational
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experience is if they want to, you know,
get into health care administration?
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I think it's very important.
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It's vitally important to to know what
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what theory is to know what
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how you can apply that theory
in a real world experience.
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So as a physician, you see it every day.
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You know how things are working.
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You have to
you get connected to the patient
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and how your your clinic is operating,
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but you don't always know and realize
the impact outside of the clinic.
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How does it roll up into a hospital,
into another another setting?
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And that's what an MBA can help you to
understand, help all of us to understand.
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I've long
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said that, you know,
the most important things that led
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I believe that led me to where I am
today is
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when I you know, it was my faith.
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It was marrying my wife, having children
and my education.
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And that MBA was the last degree
that I achieved.
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And that was vitally important
for me to understand where I was going
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and how to apply the skills
that I had acquired over time,
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that I had no idea why I was doing it
or how they would come together.
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But those were the things
that led me to where I am today.
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And I think that MBA, that that education
is vitally important to our success.
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Yeah.
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Well, sir you seem like a person
that enjoys reading books.
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And, and a question for me
is I have, in medical school.
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We didn't get to read for fun very much.
And so now.
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Now, now we have time to kind.
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Of pick it, picking it up and,
and a couple of things that again, things
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that we didn't learn in medical
school is one, personal finance.
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So we're we're learning about that now,
trying to figure that out.
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And that's important. Yes sir.
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And then and then developing
leadership qualities.
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As you know, those are useful in,
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in any field and as, as physicians
and especially Krishna
who’s
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looking into the admin world
becomes a quality that we have to
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practice and develop. And
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so, you know,
I was wondering if you had any,
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resources or books that you thought
were like, Wow, this is such a good read
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that we could share our list
for our listeners.
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Well, for me,
there is so much happening in health care.
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The health care
landscape is changing every day
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during our time together, I'm sure there's
legislation that's been passed
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and other changes
that are impacting our world.
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And so it's there are trade journals,
and so I'm continuously reading
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trade journals, modern health
care, Becker's finance and Becker's payer.
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There are a whole host
of those trade journals that are out there
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that that keep me apprized
of current events.
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And then behind that there are
I mentioned Jim
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Collins, who's a great author
and and thinker.
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Malcolm Gladwell is another
author that I really enjoy.
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Those things are
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directly applicable to business
and to finances and are important,
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and then you have to go find opportunities
to learn more.
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I also, like I enjoy hearing speakers
when there's a conference or events
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that are out there.
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I like learning from those who
who've been in similar situations,
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always keeping my ears open
and my eyes open for those opportunities.
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And so I would just encourage
everybody to be a sponge.
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Yeah, And that helps you to stay current.
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It helps formulate your ideas,
it helps promote
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a networking and conversation
that's broader than yourself.
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Check your way of thinking
and and see where you can
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where you can develop something further
from what you've read. But
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that's a that's an important tool.
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I think we should all be open
to the opportunity to learn more.
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Yeah.
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So that's, that's amazing.
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Like, I feel like that is like time
and time again is what we hear is always
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be prepared to learn more
because you know.
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It never ends.
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Learning is a never ending process. Yeah.
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what do you think?
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are things that are that excite
you about the future of Norman Regional?
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there are so many things.
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I've touched on a few of those items,
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and maybe if,
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if I were to try to break it down
into simple terms,
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first and foremost, it's our patients
how we can impact and help our patients.
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It's the people, our people
at Norman Regional that we call healers.
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So patients, people, it's the progress
we're making.
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We talked a little bit about inspire
health and we're nearing completion.
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One part of that project,
that strategy is in place
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with our Norman Regional Nine facility
and others are about to come online.
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So that progress is really exciting.
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It's really important to the organization
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and so that, those are the things that are
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that are important to me
and that are on my radar every day.
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And then I would say from there,
we again talked a little bit
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about the challenges in health care today.
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Our potential is off the charts.
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We are transforming our health system
and in doing so,
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it takes our people, our healers,
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to translate that vision into a reality.
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And we've got the best.
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You are two examples of that,
and I appreciate the work that you guys
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do.
Well, you are too kind sir.
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Thank you. That's the biggest compliment
I've received.
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It's it's true.
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And I you know, I have a loved one,
a family member who sees one of you
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for their care
and they greatly appreciate that care.
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And so you guys make a difference
each and every day.
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But that translates into the potential
for our health system.
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And if we're really focused on health
and wellness,
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we have to do it through our people.
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And we've got the best.
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I don't know if you meant to
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do that, sir, but that was just excellent
wordplay because it's a four ps.
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It's it's patients,
people, progress and potential.
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There you go. Yeah, that was accidental.
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That was great.
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heard it on the podcast.
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You heard it here first.
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So
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Another thing is is one of the goals
of our many goals with this podcast.
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But it's to get to know,
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our Norman Regional
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our our health care system or providers
our leaders a little bit more personally
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to kind of bridge that gap
right between the patients or listeners.
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And us and so, I hope you don't mind
asking some personal questions.
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I'm just curious like interested in
like what are some of your hobbies
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that you do to, to kind of de-stress
or go enjoy yourself?
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And that's a great question.
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And I believe we all need to know
what that is for ourselves.
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It will be, you know,
any number of things, but for me,
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it's important
that I can get out and do some road work.
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Okay.
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I don't like to run.
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I don't call myself a runner,
but I run as often as I can.
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Yeah.
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And I just want to get a 5k in
and and it's my time to pray
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and I may listen to a podcast on occasion
while I'm running and to think
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and clear my mind and not have to worry
about the other stressors.
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It's just one foot in front of the other.
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And so I really,
I try to make that a priority
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and it helps, it helps me, helps clear
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my mind, helps me think more
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strategically
when I focus on those areas,
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helps me to think more deeply
about my family and that sort of thing.
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So I really like to run.
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I enjoy reading, but that takes some time
away from other things as well.
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But yeah,
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a little bit of
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health and, and just get out on the road.
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That's awesome.
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So you do, you do like the Oklahoma City
five K and stuff or.
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I've done that in the past
and I haven't done it in several years.
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It just seems too much competition
for time.
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That's true.
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Yeah, but that's a remarkable event
and I'm so grateful.
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Having lived through that time
in our state's history, I cared
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for patients literally as they came in
for the first time into our E.R..
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my gosh.
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And working with them
in physical therapy again and.
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my gosh, it's just I can't imagine
what that must have been like.
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Yeah.
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But no, I don't get to the
I don't I have no desire to be a part
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of a marathon or a half marathon.
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What's your favorite place to run?
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Just around the neighborhood.
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that's, that's that's great.
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It's like anybody.
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Anywhere that I'm safe, That's what I.
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Yeah, I. Like. And I had to,
I have to say.
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And then the feeling is mutual about
having no desire to run. And I haven't.
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We can't be triathletes like Dr.
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Sadler. Yes. that's. That's hard to do.
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that takes commitment.
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This has been a very insightful episode
with our CEO Mr. Richie Splitt.
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Today we learned a lot about Norman
Regional's past, present and future.
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This episode is very near and dear to us
and we can't fit it all in just one.
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So join us soon for part
two of our conversation with our CEO
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on your Vital Visions podcast.
