P3 Collaborative Members

P3 Expert Advisors

P3 has a deep bench of highly experienced top tier executive leaders with significant experience in transforming distressed hospitals into high-performance operations. P3 brings in our experts to guide qualified in-place leadership through the transformation and, if necessary provide retraining or even replacement.

Bill Bithoney, MD – over 20 years experience as a physician executive in diverse academic and hospital systems. Under his stewardship, Sisters of Providence Hospital went from a money-losing facility to becoming the most profitable community hospital (out of 64) in Massachusetts in 2009.

Robert Bernasek, MD – a Six Sigma Green Belt with 30 years of experience in clinical practice in hematology and hospital administration. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Oxford Health Plans, and a member of the Quality Council of the Yale New Haven Health System.

Robbin Dick, MD – an expert in throughput; pioneer of the Patient-Centered Admission Team (PCAT), an error-free patient experience and hospital throughput model. At one upstate NY hospital Robbin’s team demonstrated over $20M in bottom line improvement.

Hector Castro, MD - an expert in the fields of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Castro’s community partnership and Patient Centered Medical Home model contributed significantly to NY Beth Israel’s three year financial turnaround from a loss of over $40M per year in 2005 to an operating surplus of $25M in 2009.

Nick Jacobs - more than 20 years of operational, strategic and executive management experience in the healthcare arena. He spent eleven years as CEO for the Windber Medical Center and founded the nationally recognized Windber Research Institute in 2000.

John Ortiz - 33 years of healthcare experience specializing in business planning and improving organizational performance. He is a member and a lecturer for the Healthcare Financial Management Association, American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Healthcare Management and Information Systems Society.

Honorable Paul O’Neill, Sr. – former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, and founder of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative and on the board of NQF, RAND, and more than a dozen other organizations.

Honorable Tommy Thompson – former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and four-term Governor of Wisconsin. Currently Chairman of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Honorable Ken Kizer, MD - Chairman of Medsphere (EMR), former president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and Undersecretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. As chief executive officer of the nation’s largest healthcare system he architected the largest and most successful healthcare “turnaround” in U.S. history, including the largest deployment of an electronic health record anywhere to date.

Stephen Spear, PhD – a five-time winner of the Shingo Prize for research excellence and recipient of the McKinsey Award. He is a senior lecturer at MIT, where he teaches healthcare leadership and the high-velocity discipline of the Toyota Production System, customized for healthcare.

Jeffrey Brenner, MD – a faculty member in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine at the Cooper Health System, where he conducts research on urban health conditions. He also founded a non-profit committed to improving the quality, capacity, and accessibility of the healthcare delivery system in Camden, NJ.