Hospitals head looks beyond overhaul
- October 29, 2009 |
- CEO Update
With the nations sharp focus on its health care system and the promise of a major overhaul on the horizon, Chip Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals since 2001, is in the national spotlight. FAH represents about 20 percent of the nations hospitals, those owned by investors, but Kahn himself has been at the center of almost every major piece of health care delivery legislation for more than 25 years, either on Capitol Hill or with health-related trade groups. While he was executive vice president at the Health Insurance Association of America, the group ran the storied Harry and Louise advertising campaign, admitted by all sides to be an enormously… Read More