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James Baker is a Healthcare Consultant of CENTRE Health Partners. He is a seasoned veteran in the health care industry with over 30 years of experience in senior management positions. He has witnessed and participated in the industry’s expansion, increased accountability, and growing complexity at both the corporate and community hospital levels.
Mr. Baker is a recognized industry leader as evidenced by his selection as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Mississippi Hospital Association, National Board of Directors of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Executive of the Year in Mississippi, and numerous other awards and recognition.
Mr. Baker is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, the pinnacle of professional development in the industry. As such, he is in an elite group of dedicated leaders who have demonstrated their competency through education and research. Only 10 per cent of ACHE affiliates are Fellows, a professional designation synonymous with Board Certification in healthcare management.
Mr. Baker specializes in providing interim senior management to stabilize and re-energize health systems. Specifically, he has extensive experience in providing qualified and reliable talent for hospitals providing such services as: - Interim CEO/COO due to turnover or incapacity of a hospital CEO/COO. This includes assisting the hospital’s governing body in the recruitment process for a permanent replacement.
- General Administrative consulting services such as strategic planning for distressed hospitals.
- Administrative staff mentoring.
- Construction management for major building projects.
- Assisting hospital Governing Boards who may be considering a change of ownership.
- Due diligence activities in conjunction with a change of ownership.
Consulting services pay the best dividends when used to help a client’s staff deal with tangible problems in a way designed to improve staff skills and leave in place a working business process. Further, staff should understand how to improve business processes in the future with minimum assistance from the outside. Mr. Baker has utilized this approach to great effect for many clients.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from Mississippi State University and Master’s degrees in both Business Administration and Hospital Administration from Mississippi College.
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