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Casino push intensifies
"We've said from the
beginning that our project
will benefit the region. Today,
we're making a commitment to
jobs for people throughout the
Greater Hartford region."
Mashantucket Pequot
Tribal Council Chair
Rodney Butler pitching Foxwoods Resort
Casino's and Mohegan Sun's East Windsor
casino at a March 5 demolition ceremony.
Dr. J. Kevin Shushtari
| Chief Medical Officer | Hospital for Special Care
By John Stearns
jstearns@HartfordBusiness.com
Dr. J. Kevin Shushtari knew the moment he
walked into the Hospital for Special Care (HSC),
a long-term acute care hospital in New Britain,
that it was "a remarkable place."
Shushtari became chief
medical officer Jan. 1 after
working at Sarasota (Fla.)
Memorial Health Care
System as executive medi-
cal director of post-acute
services, in which he has
extensive experience.
"The culture here is one
of caring, and the hospital
is true to its mission to
serve the community where
healthcare needs are greatest," said Shushtari, who
oversees all medical staff, but, importantly, still
gets to spend about 30 percent of his time bedside.
Shushtari's background includes starting the
hospitalist program at Springfield's Mercy Medi-
cal Center in 1993. Mercy pioneered hospitalist
medicine, the fastest-growing specialty ever in
U.S. medicine, he said. Hospitalist docs work only
in hospitals to improve efficiency and care.
Shustari also co-founded the country's first on-
line pharmacy, Rx.com, in 1997, to create a medical
information site to look up healthcare issues. The
pharmacy side of Rx.com paid for the "exorbi-
tantly expensive" task of creating original medical
content, he said, calling it a "daunting task" to cre-
ate such a company in the internet's early days.
What is now Walgreens Boots Alliance acquired
Rx.com.
What's your biggest opportunity at HSC?
To help sustain HSC's mission of rebuilding
lives in core areas of expertise and provide new,
innovative programs. Areas of particular interest
to me are Autism Spectrum Disorders, Alzheim-
er's disease and Chronic Traumatic Encephalop-
athy. There is a growing need for diagnosis and
treatment in these areas.
What's the biggest challenge facing HSC?
Reimbursement rates do not keep pace with
cost of delivering care and the need for care
continues to grow. Our ability to improve overall
quality of care through cost-efficient approaches
has never been more critical.
Tell us something about you many people don't
know.
I recently earned a Master in Fine Arts in fiction
from Boston University and have published numer-
ous short stories. I'm completing my first novel.
VERBATIM
Dr. J. Kevin
Shushtari
ESPN names new president
"As a passionate and
lifelong sports fan, I am
honored to be joining the
ESPN team during such a
pivotal time in its storied
history."
James Pitaro , a long-
time executive at ESPN's
parent company, Disney, on his recent
appointment as president of ESPN, the Bristol-
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