Healthcare Innovation February 20, 2020
A comprehensive behavioral health network has been formed at WakeMed Health and Hospitals, and some of the results, according to one organizational leader, “far exceed anything else we’re seeing in industry”
A lot has changed in three years at the Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health and Hospitals. For one, as recently as 2017, the 919-bed healthcare system, with multiple facilities around the metropolitan Raleigh area, didn’t have any organized services offered for behavioral health patients. For Rick Shrum, the current vice president and chief strategy officer at WakeMed, this presented a massive opportunity for change when he took the job at the patient care organization three years ago.
Shrum, who prior to WakeMed was in the behavioral health field for 25...
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