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MURRAY S. WOOD
Santa Rosa, California 95409
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SUMMARY
Strategically agile senior healthcare executive with unique and innovative experience in both practice management and hospital administration. Demonstrated record of strategy execution, networking for win/win results for both hospitals and physicians, outstanding in contract negotiations, business development, acquisitions and operational leadership delivering positive financial, physician, patient and community results.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
QUEEN of the VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, Napa, CA 2003-2008
Consultant
Responsible for the selection, negotiation, installation and initiation of operations of an in-hospital multi detector CT scanner and a PET-CT scanner to be located in the hospital and a freestanding imaging center for a total budget of $4 million.
Manager, Outpatient Imaging
Built, developed and operated Napa Valley Imaging Center, an 8,000 square foot free standing JCAHO accredited, concierge service level imaging center containing a GE Signa High Definition 1.5T MRI, a GE Signa 0.35T Ovation Open MRI and a 16 Slice Toshiba CT.
● Networked and marketed to the physician community.
● Contract negotiator for contracts with health plans and workers’ compensation insurers.
● ROI fully paid for all building and capital investment in the first three years.
VIVANT BEAUTY SALON/ THREADS, Santa Rosa and Pismo Beach, CA 2001 -2003
Small Business Entrepreneur
Developed and operated two small businesses with the intention of transitioning to daughters. Implemented Vivant Beauty Salon in Santa Rosa, California and Threads, a woman’s clothing boutique in Pismo Beach, California.
● Transitioned the business operations to daughters.
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE, Urban South Region 2002
Consultant
Oncology Service Line Strategic Planning
REDWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL GROUP, INC., Santa Rosa, CA 1990 - 2001
Chief Executive Officer
Led a radiology, medical oncology and radiation oncology practice. Built practice from a sixteen member partnership to a thirty-four Shareholder Corporation with forty practicing physicians, 310 employees in nine offices. Added 10 medical Oncologists, acquired, merged and integrated three other medical practices, operated and managed eight properties held by two real estate partnerships. Responsible for strategy development and execution, business development/marketing, network development and contracting, physician employee and patient satisfaction, community relations and financial success.
● Increased revenues by 600% to $45.5 million.
● Gained 30% to 80% of the medical oncology market share by cancer type.
● Negotiated contracts with five hospitals and numerous health plans and workers’ compensation
carriers.
● Acquired and merged three other medical practices.
● Planned and established an “Integrated Medical Practice” under the definition of the Stark/Spear
safe harbor.
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ST. LUKES HOSPITAL, San Francisco, CA 1989 - 1990
Vice President for Ancillary Services
Operational responsibility for all hospital departments with the exception of nursing, environmental services and finance.
● Designed, developed, implemented and marketed the hospital’s Occupational Health division.
● Consolidated numerous ancillary departments to achieve operating cost reduction.
O’CONNOR HEALTH SERVICES, San Jose, CA 1985 -1989
Vice President Ventures and Facilities (1986 -1989)
Strategic and operational responsibility for Physician/Hospital joint ventures, Environmental Services, Plant Operations, Food Services, Materiel Management, a Home Health Agency, Fitness Assessment, Behavioral Health and Medical Office Buildings.
● Negotiated and implemented the first joint ventured MRI imaging center between the hospital and
medical staff investors together with the hospital radiologists.
● Negotiated an executive wellness evaluation and fitness assessment center located in an exclusive
Santa Clara Valley health club.
President and Chief Executive Officer Pro Tempore (1985-1986)
Responsible for a 357 bed Acute Care Hospital, a thirty-eight bed Acute Alcohol and Chemical Dependency Hospital and a fifty-eight bed Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Hospital. Other corporate entities include two medical office buildings, a health assessment and health promotion division.
ROSS GENERAL HOSPITAL, Ross, CA 1983-1984
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer
Responsible for administration of 193 bed Acute Care Hospital with 75 beds for combined Psychiatric and Substance Abuse.
● Increased per patient day revenue by $100 while reducing staff from 225 FTE’s to 170 FTE’s.
● Expanded Emergency Department including an Urgent Care Center and the renovation of the
surgical unit.
NOVATO COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, Novato, CA 1978-1983
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer
Responsible for leadership of local community hospital with 200 employees.
● Led a $1.3 million expansion including a new Emergency Department, ICU/CCU, three Surgery
Suites and the licensed bed capacity increase from 51-75.
● Turned around financial position from negative to positive cash flow and increased the annual gross
patient revenues from $5.2 million to $8.5 million within the first two years.
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Loma Linda, CA 1973-1978
Assistant Administrator, Ancillary Services (1975-1978)
Administrative Assistant, Ancillary Services (1974-1975)
Administrative Resident (1973-1974)
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BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Member of Board, Diagnostic Networks, Inc., Magnetic Resonance Imaging Management Company, 1985-1989
Member of the Board, West Bay Hospital Conference Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo Hospitals, 1979-1984
Chairman, Hospital and Special Services Committee Member Plan Development Committee-Inland Counties
Health System, 1976-1977
Member, Plan Development Committee – Inland Counties Health Planning Council. Vice Chairman, East Valley Health Planning Task Force-Health Needs Assessment Committee, 1975-1976
EDUCATION
Loma Linda University School of Public Health, San Bernardino, CA
Master of Public Health in Hospital Administration
University of California, Los Angeles and California State University Northridge
California Secondary Teaching Credential.
Loma Linda University, San Bernardino, CA
B.A., History with Minors in Live Sciences and Political Science
ACADEMIC
Guest Speaker, Radiology Business Management Association Convention, Atlanta, Georgia
Guest Speaker, American Association of Radiology Administrators Convention, San Diego, CA
Lecture transcribed for Journal of the Association of Radiology Administrators.
Lecturer on Total Parental Nutrition Services in Acute Care Hospitals, University of Southern California.
Member, School of Public Health Curriculum Committee Treasurer, School of Public Health Alumni Association, Loma Linda University
Guest Lecturer in Graduate School of Nursing, School of Allied Health Professions and School Of Public Health, Loma Linda University
MEMBERSHIPS
Member, the American College of Healthcare Executives, 1978-Present
Member, Radiology Business Management Association, 1990-Present
Member, Medical Group Management Association, 1990-Present
Member, Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1999-Present
Member, Hospital Council of Northern California, 1978-1990
CONSULTANT, Eisenhower Medical Center, Palm Desert, CA, 1998
O’Connor Hospital, San Jose, CA, 1984
Southern Humboldt Community Hospital, Garberville, CA, 1980-1982
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