Wayne New has been an independent healthcare operational consultant since 1999. He has successfully participated on important projects for related to key hospital operational issues.
Mr. New has extensive operational experience in children's hospitals and has served in key executive positions at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Egleston Children’s Hospital (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta), The Children's Hospital in Denver, and Driscoll Children's Hospital. His administrative expertise has focused on strategic, budgetary, and operational planning; quality system evaluations / enhancements; and work process, efficiency, and productivity analysis and improvement.
With a background in systems engineering, Mr. New has led major operational efforts to address patient focused administrative and clinical system improvements; productivity standard development; reimbursement and revenue enhancement; and capital and financial planning. He participated in major hospital expansions, leading developments in many professional service management programs and new clinical service business planning. Mr. New worked effectively with physician leaders and hospital management to implement process improvements that enhanced the efficiency and quality of hospital inpatient and outpatient services. He has successfully led multi million dollar financial turnaround efforts at several hospitals with initial and sustained results. He has experience with both academic and private practice hospital and physician operations. At Driscoll Children's Hospital he initiated an executive effort to participate as one of the national 40 organizations in the pilot project to test the original healthcare performance excellence criteria for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program.
Mr. New has a B.S. in Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, and a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a member of the American Hospital Association, a 2008 National Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program, and a 2007 and 2008 State Examiner for the Colorado Performance Excellence. |
