Feb 25, 2016 2 min read Business

Brooklyn Hospital Center’s New CEO Aims To Build Networks And Trust With Physicians And Community

Image courtesy of Brooklyn Hospital Center.

Brooklyn Hospital Center has found its new CEO/President after a year of searching.

Gary Terrinoni took the helm this month, hired in part based on his track record helping to transform New Jersey’s Kennedy Health System from struggling to financial stability, in just two years as senior vice president and CFO. As he told the Brooklyn Eagle, he anticipates having similar success at Brooklyn Hospital.

“The first pillar will be a physician network that will be responsive to this population’s health care needs,” said Terrinoni when asked about his plans. He explained that the population TBHC serves in Downtown Brooklyn is dense, diverse and growing. He added that implementing a “clinically integrated model” could make all the difference.

With the physicians’ network in place, the basis of this model is to develop a community-based clinical network, change the culture of an organization, align the incentives of physicians, implement disease programs and protocols and make use of technology to streamline services.

While Terrinoni stresses that TLC (trust, listen and challenge) will be at the core of his blueprint for restructuring the hospital, efficiency and financial viability are two more pillars he plans to use in boosting the future success of TBHC.

. . . He pointed out that part of his plan includes collecting data that measures the specific needs of the surrounding community. This will provide insight that Terrinoni thinks will help to enhance patient care.

“Institutions like this one mean a lot for a community,” said Terrinoni, “and I think it will come down to helping the community to trust and embrace the hospital and its community-based care network. This will mean more than just constructing a new building, and the team we are developing will provide the healing human element.”

Terrinoni replaces interim CEO/President and existing hospital trustee Jonathan M. Weld, who temporarily filled the position since last March. Previous hospital president Dr. Richard B. Becker left his position to become CEO of New Found Health, a private “hospital and healthcare company affiliated with private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital Partners” — the firm that BHC worked with last year in an attempt to buy Long Island College Hospital (LICH).