Modern Healthcare has recognized R. Lawrence Moss, president and CEO of Nemours Children’s Health, as one of the nation’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives for 2024.
This marks the third time Moss has been named to this elite group.
“Our 2024 honorees work in all corners of health care at organizations of all sizes,” said Mary Ellen Podmolik, editor-in-chief at Modern Healthcare. “Yet they share a commitment to improving their organizations inside and out — building a stronger workforce, expanding access to care and improving the bottom line. Our 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives also find time to be part of their communities — a crucial part of understanding patients’ needs and redefining health care.”
This recognition program honors licensed clinicians in executive roles who are deemed by their peers and the senior editors of Modern Healthcare as paving the way to better health through their leadership qualities, innovation, community service and achievements inside and outside of their organizations.
“Being named among the nation’s top clinical executives is a humbling honor and one that I deeply appreciate, but the true recognition goes to Nemours Children’s,” said Moss. “It is my privilege to lead such a forward-thinking organization with associates who are so fully dedicated to our vision of creating a healthier population by starting with children and keeping kids healthy: “well beyond medicine.”
Moss approaches this vision with his prescription for fixing U.S. health care:
· Understand what health is — medical care is responsible for less than 20% of health;
· Pay for health — rather than volume of medical care;
· Start with children — they are the lever to change adult health and the economy.
His prescription draws on decades of evidence that lifetime health trajectories are set in early childhood.
To implement this approach, Nemours is investing more than $100 million in the Whole Child Health Model to improve population health and keep children healthy; expanding its clinically integrated Kidwell Network, which already has nearly 200,000 patients; operating programs for early childhood literacy, healthy eating and physical activity in 42 states; coordinating care to address care gaps and social drivers of health for 93,000 patients last year; and embedding behavioral health services in primary care clinics.
This year’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives are profiled in the June 10 issue of Modern Healthcare and online at ModernHealthcare.com/50Most.
