New VP plans to elevate education at Adena
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CHILLICOTHE – “I want to put education on the map for Adena,” said Gail Games, who has been named the first-ever Vice President for Education and Development at the health system.
At the top of her list of things to do is bringing education and development within the health system under one roof, and focusing on exciting and far-reaching educational opportunities for Adena.
“We need to be moving down the same track by marrying these two areas,” said Games, who is celebrating 12 years at Adena
Since arriving in 1999, the Indiana transplant has served in a number of capacities, including physician support, Service Line Director of Oncology and, most recently, System Director of Organizational Development.
“I’m excited to have the opportunity to really push education as a focus of the health system,” she said.
Along with Adena’s ties to Wright State University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, an upcoming collaboration with Ohio University for a Master of Science in Nursing/Nurse Practitioner program and a graduate medical education program slated to begin next year, Games has another vision.
“I want to start Adena University,” she said.
What she has in mind is not a traditional university, but an institution where healthcare and business leaders come to learn. The university also would provide new opportunities for Adena employees and people from throughout southern Ohio.
“Think of all the great things we’re doing here at Adena,” Games said. Along with the educational programs that currently exist, there’s the work being done to improve employee satisfaction, patient satisfaction, productivity, profitability and quality.
There’s an incredible opportunity for people to learn from what is being done at Adena, she said. “The infrastructure is in place,” she said. All that’s needed is “packaging and selling” the concept.
Because of the nature of her new position, Games will spend time between her existing office in Human Resources and a new office in the PACCAR Medical Education Center.
CHILLICOTHE – “I want to put education on the map for Adena,” said Gail Games, who has been named the first-ever Vice President for Education and Development at the health system.
At the top of her list of things to do is bringing education and development within the health system under one roof, and focusing on exciting and far-reaching educational opportunities for Adena.
“We need to be moving down the same track by marrying these two areas,” said Games, who is celebrating 12 years at Adena
Since arriving in 1999, the Indiana transplant has served in a number of capacities, including physician support, Service Line Director of Oncology and, most recently, System Director of Organizational Development.
“I’m excited to have the opportunity to really push education as a focus of the health system,” she said.
Along with Adena’s ties to Wright State University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, an upcoming collaboration with Ohio University for a Master of Science in Nursing/Nurse Practitioner program and a graduate medical education program slated to begin next year, Games has another vision.
“I want to start Adena University,” she said.
What she has in mind is not a traditional university, but an institution where healthcare and business leaders come to learn. The university also would provide new opportunities for Adena employees and people from throughout southern Ohio.
“Think of all the great things we’re doing here at Adena,” Games said. Along with the educational programs that currently exist, there’s the work being done to improve employee satisfaction, patient satisfaction, productivity, profitability and quality.
There’s an incredible opportunity for people to learn from what is being done at Adena, she said. “The infrastructure is in place,” she said. All that’s needed is “packaging and selling” the concept.
Because of the nature of her new position, Games will spend time between her existing office in Human Resources and a new office in the PACCAR Medical Education Center.