Chief Healthcare Executive October 3, 2023
Main Line Health CEO Jack Lynch says it’s impossible to talk about better outcomes without focusing on closing disparities in underserved groups.
Jack Lynch describes a moment when a light bulb went on in his head.
Lynch, the president and CEO of Main Line Health, recalls a conversation he had with a Black healthcare colleague working at another health system about five years ago. He asked if his colleague’s CEO thought there were racial disparities in the system’s emergency department, and the colleague said, “No.”
When Lynch asked his colleague if thought there was disparities in emergency care, the response was, “Absolutely.”
“What it caused me to believe is that many, many, many CEOs and C-suite leaders and boards don’t...