Dennis Jack (Republican)
Director-Hospital District - - (11989)
Biography
Married to my wife for 32 years, two grown children. Master's in Healthcare Administration from ASU, with experience in leading acute care hospitals, rehab hospitals and mental health hospitals. Have worked in for profit, not for profit and governmental hospitals. High energy individual, able to multitask when needed and to focus on one project until it is completed.
Experience
more than 30 years of hospital management experience. Built 8 new hospitals from start up to operational status, seven years at one critical access hospital alone. Successfully turned around hospital with bad reputation, fixed broken billing systems. Recruited more than 20 doctors in my career. Passed Medicare, JCAHO and DNV surveys.
Education
Masters in Healthcare Administration for Arizona State University
Bachelor's Degree in business management from Oregon State University.
Community Activities and Memberships
Member of Rotary club for past 20 years
Past Board member of Science Zone in Casper Wy
Board member of Chamber of Commerce in Borger Texas
Ex Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Why I am Running
I have witnessed over the last six years failures from the board leadership of Campbell County Health, both while living in Casper Wy and from living in Gillette Wyoming. I feel I can offer some seasoned leadership to this board that can help them through the difficult times ahead. This hospital cannot sustain another year of $25,000,000 million loss
Top 3 Priorities
1.CCH hospital has had a very poor reputation in regard to the billing process, this needs to be fixed, and it can't wait until the new medical record program comes online in a year.
2.The hospital is fairly good a recruiting doctors, but the hospital is very poor at retaining doctors. From the first day of a doctor working in the hospital or the community, the hospital and the board need to be working on retaining that doctor.
3. This hospital has a bad reputation of not being transparent to the community on decisions they are making, sometimes the community only finds out after a big change has been done, and no input from the community is sought out. This can be changed by inviting more community members into the tent for discussions.
