MedCity News May 13, 2020
Elise Reuter

Dr. Atul Gawande, CEO of Haven, stepped down from the high-profile healthcare venture to focus on Covid-19. He will become chairman of the company while it searches for a new CEO.

“The healthcare system is complex, and we enter into this challenge open-eyed about the degree of difficulty,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, back in January 2018, when the yet-unnamed joint venture involving Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway was launched.

Bezos couldn’t have said it better regarding what came to be known as Haven.

Less than two years after a CEO was named — the highly-regarded author and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande — to lead Haven, the much-hailed effort to overhaul U.S. healthcare appears to have hit...

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