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Warner Thomas
President and CEO of Sutter Health, the Northern California not-for-profit health system; previously led Ochsner Health for a decade.
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Sep 23, 2026
BONUS 211. From Plowing Snow to Leading Healthcare Transformation, with Warner Thomas
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What did you learn about what it takes not just to lead an organization, but to lead an organization that is growing and changing constantly?

Warner ThomasGUEST
And then we had new folks that came in, people that just so good at what they did and what they do.

Warner ThomasGUEST
And we had a great teacher in Pat Quinlan who helped set us up for this success.
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What did you do first? What did you know you had to do differently as an outsider?
Building a Transparent, Action Driven Health System Strategy with Warner Thomas
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6:00Laura DiertaHOST
When you're thinking through, um, the ambulatory strategy, what does that do to challenge the assumptions that your team had about the healthcare environment in the past, and what did it change about how you approach decision-making a- as well as organizational readi- readiness?
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6:13Warner ThomasGUEST
readiness?So I think one of the things we try to do is, you know, we have a very clear communication strategy.
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6:24Warner ThomasGUEST
We're very clear within our organization about what we're doing and why we're doing it.
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6:29Warner ThomasGUEST
You know, we have one incentive plan that covers our whole entire leadership team.
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6:33Warner ThomasGUEST
We have one set of, you know, AIP metrics that covers our whole organization.
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10:41Laura DiertaHOST
Um, and how are you ensuring some of the digital investments that you're making are actually supporting rather than straining the workforce?
