More About Bill

After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Business Education, Bill's initial "career" was in oil well drilling, first working as a roughneck on drilling rigs in California, next serving as a drilling fluids engineer in Canada, and then managing drilling and construction contracts in Turkey and Iran.

Bill's career in hospitals began in Boston at Beth Israel Hospital, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, where he was assigned the responsibility to establish and operate a management system that encompassed all areas of the hospital that provided patient care services.

Next, for 14 years he served as the CEO and President of Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, which was a 300 bed community hospital north of Boston. Bill created the concept of ambulatory surgery, for which he received national recognition and was the subject of a front page article in The Wall Street Journal as well as appearing in The Congressional Record. He successfully created many other unique operational concepts including the design of a replacement hospital that encompassed extremely innovative concepts which in turn resulted in the building being

constructed at an unheard of low cost.

Then he became the CEO and administrator of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia - where research, complex tertiary services were provided in such areas as organ and bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cardiac surgery, neonatology, and radiation therapy. The hospital hosted an extensive residency training program internally as well as with affiliating hospitals. Given the hospital's contracts with the City of Philadelphia's clinics and prison system, other hospitals affiliated with Hahnemann, and other contractual obligations, Bill's experiences in

contract management from his first career were continuously called upon.