Keith Safian from Westfair Online on Vimeo.
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No industry likely feels the effects of changing technology, demographics and economics as much as the health care sector. Providing quality care, often with shrinking financial resources, to a growing ”“ and graying ”“ population, as well as an increasing number of uninsured, is a tall order indeed.
How are hospitals coping in these tough economic times?
The Business Journal checked in with Keith Safian, president and CEO of Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow.
Safian, who is marking a milestone ”“ his 20th year as chief at Phelps ”“ has seen many changes in the field, and in the region.
In an “Online” interview, Safian talked about the health care industry and some of the major advances, expansions and affiliations at Phelps. Under his leadership, Phelps has grown as a health care provider and economic force in Westchester, operating in the black in all but one of the last 20 years. Since Safian came on board in 1989, the hospital”™s operating budget has increased from $40 million to $188 million.
