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Healthcare Leadership Award finalists Remuda Ranch Since 1990, more than 10,000 women and girls have been treated at Remuda Ranch at The Meadows for eating disorders and co-occurring issues such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse and trauma. Its treatment approach utilizes a multidiscipline team of psychiatrists, primary care providers, registered dietitians, therapists, psychologists and registered nurses that provide 24-hour support. Southwest Behavioral Health Services Southwest Behavioral Health Services has developed a reputation as an innovative leader in behavioral health and experienced rapid growth of its behavioral health programs over the past several years. Its services include treatment of co-occurring disorders, the Arizona Treatment Initiative for children and families and the Recovery Model for persons with serious mental illness.
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he opportunity to blend science with personal interactions is what first attracted Dr. Rodney Altman to medicine. “I chose emergency medicine because I enjoyed the challenge and pressure of seeing patients often before their diagnoses were determined,” said Altman, regional medical director for Team Health, which provides management for providers who work at Abrazo Health emergency departments. “As a young medical student, I was attracted to emergency medicine’s pace, variety and unpredictability.” Altman said one of the biggest obstacles facing physicians today is meeting the expectations of patients and families in environments with constrained resources. “My toughest challenge is creating ways to improve quality and patient experience while improving efficiency,” he said. “This is really the same challenge faced by our healthcare system.” But Altman said success in healthcare today utilizes the same formula doctors have always followed: Knowing how to provide good care for one patient at a time. “To be a leader today, one has to be innovative, either by leading by advancing science or the actual business of medicine,” Altman said. “We are all trying to do more with less while improving quality and patient satisfaction. Today, medicine needs innovative leaders who can find new ways to accomplish that.”
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Radiant Research Radiant made history in 2012 when it became the country’s largest clinical trial site management organization (under the name Clinical Research Advantage) and partnered with Quintiles to form the first therapeutic alliance in primary medicine. The company made history again in 2014 by becoming the first organization of its kind to be awarded a vaccine study that would enroll more than 8,250 participants. Sonora Quest Laboratories As the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services, Sonora Quest’s’ Care360 cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) system ranked No. 1 in several categories in the Black Book 2013 Rankings. Sonora is committed to innovative connectivity solutions that help doctors use diagnostics and other information to promote favorable outcomes for patients. VisionGate VisionGate was named Most Innovative Company at the Best in Biz Awards 2014. The company’s innovative CellCT can take a bodily sample – sputum, urine, blood – and essentially take a CT scan of each individual cell, allowing physicians and scientists to see an individual cell in 3D on a computer for the very first time.