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Michelle Hood
President and CEO / Northern Light Health
What she is doing today: President and CEO for Northern Light
Health, an integrated healthcare system with sites of care from Presque
Isle to Portland and Blue Hill to Greenville. We provide care at all
levels: acute, preventative, rehabilitative, skilled nursing, long term,
home and hospice. We employ approximately 12,000 team members.
Key lessons learned as a manager: A common vision is absolutely
essential, communicating that goal in words that demonstrate what it
means to individuals on the team must be repetitive and consistent.
Transparency around goals and performance to those goals is critical.
In complex organizations like healthcare services, every success is the
result of great teamwork.
Advice to Maine's next generation of business leaders: Be
humble; you can always learn from others. And be a lifelong learner!
What's next: She announced in November 2019 that she will step
down to become executive vice president and chief operating officer of
the American Hospital Association, which represents 5,000 hospitals
and is based in Chicago.
Michelle Hood is longtime president and CEO of Northern Light Health,
with 12,000 employees and health care sites throughout Maine. FILE
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Be humble; you can always learn from
others. And be a lifelong learner. –
Michelle Hood
