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I wanted to lead them from a place of strength, but m- you know, make no mistake, I was completely vulnerable with them and showed them all of my weakness and didn't try to hide it from them either, because I got to a place where I was so rundown that I couldn't.

So I still had a pretty positive attitude through it all, and I also want to just give a shout-out to the team at TriHealth, Dr.

Rocky, my surgeon, who will be on in a couple weeks, Dr. Corey, who was my radiologist, and Dr. Matesah, who was my medical oncologist, and the entire team at TriHealth, the nursing staff.

I mean, there were more nurses than I could even name who just... and people behind the scenes in the OR that I never saw, thankfully, 'cause I was knocked out.

It's the Mary Jo Cropper Breast Care Center, part of the Thomas Center at TriHealth.

And I cannot thank you guys enough.

You were wonderful.

We are joined by several of the authors of the paper, Dr. Austin, Dr. Muck, and Dr. Riker.

Dr. Emily Austin is a recent graduate of the TriHealth Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency in Cincinnati.

She earned her MD from the University of Alabama in Birmingham and has joined the Montgomery Vascular Surgery Group.

Dr. Patrick Muck is the section chief of the Department of Vascular Surgery and director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship at TriHealth.

He earned his MD from University of Kentucky and attended residency and fellowship at Good Samaritan Hospital.

He is an immediate past president of the Midwestern Vascular Surgery Society.

Dr. Adam Reichard is the co-director of the TriHealth Heart and Vascular Comprehensive Aortic Center.

He earned his MD from St. George's University in Grenada and attended residency and fellowship at TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital.

Thank you for tuning into the Becker's Healthcare podcast.

This is part one of our Leadership Unscripted conversation with Mark Clement, the recently retired president and CEO of TriHealth in Cincinnati.

He discusses why 2026 was the right time for him to retire, what he has learned from decades of running marathons, and the people in whom he finds inspiration.

We hope you enjoy this episode as well as part two, and find more podcasts at becker hospitalreview.com.

Welcome to this episode of Leadership Unscripted at Becker's Healthcare Podcast.

I'm Chris Sosa, your host, and I'm thrilled to be joined today by Mark Clement, the recently retired president and CEO of TriHealth in Cincinnati.

He was with the health system for about 11 years.

Mark, thank you for joining us today.

That'd be $2,500 of additional tax savings that you would be getting by utilizing the HSA and the high deductible health care plan.

So now we're talking about $5,500 that you have a leg up on compared to the traditional plan, the PPO plan, whatever the other plan is through TriHealth.

Now here's the downside.

Now that's where you have to go and say, okay, over the last few years, where's our health been at? How often do we use healthcare? Do we use it sizably? Do we not use it sizably? Do we go to the doctor every six months like we should? Do we do regular checkups? Do we have any prior history? Do we have any family history? And then you can kind of start getting these pieces together to say, hey, we're probably going to spend X number of dollars on health care.

when they opened their pool, and five or six years later, it very much changed my mind.

I think we have other amenities that will be better for the greater good of Blue Ash, and we also won't hurt our local YMCA and TriHealth and things like that.

So that relationship for me was maybe even a money saver because I was like, I really saw how we would do something and realized there's some negatives, big negatives, financially and just maintenance-wise.

And lastly and most importantly, and I'd say this about anybody to any subject, I really think you should have some experience with a program or an issue before you vilify it or support it for that matter.