Fountain Valley/Long Beach, Calif. – June 22, 2015 – MemorialCare Health System, a nationally recognized nonprofit health system with hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange counties, announced that Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach, Community Hospital
Long Beach and Seaside Health Plan’s Chief Financial Officer John Bishop has been appointed CEO of the three hospitals. Bishop immediately assumes the responsibilities, succeeding former CEO Diana Hendel.
MemorialCare’s Long Beach operations include more than 8,000 employees, affiliated physicians, volunteers and associates and produce over $1 billion in annual revenues. Its Long Beach Memorial & Miller Children’s campus is among the two largest hospital campuses in the West and is one of just a small number of campuses in the U.S. with both adult and children’s teaching hospitals, therefore, allowing for a lifetime of care in one location.
“We selected an outstanding individual with a demonstrated track record of success within MemorialCare as the new leader for our Long Beach hospitals,” says Barry Arbuckle, Ph.D., president and CEO of MemorialCare Health System, recently named among the Top 50 Health Systems in the U.S. by Becker’s Hospital Review. “John is a strategic, engaged and innovative leader with extensive experience in executive management and finance. That breadth of knowledge combined with John’s leadership in all aspects of health care delivery—from inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory settings to physician groups, health plans and community-based care—makes him the perfect choice to lead our Long Beach hospitals and programs. The Long Beach market is vitally important to our health system, and I look forward to working with John as he sets out to prioritize strategic initiatives that ensure the continued growth and success of our Long Beach campuses.”
Bishop has been an executive with MemorialCare Health System since 2004. He started at MemorialCare as CFO of Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and San Clemente following 12 years as a Certified Public Accountant with Ernst & Young, LLP, consulting with some of the country’s best-known health care organizations. In 2009, he joined the Long Beach executive management team as CFO of Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children’s, Community Hospital and Seaside Health Plan and oversaw financial operations of Memorial Medical Center Foundation, a philanthropic support organization for the three hospitals.
“I am both honored and humbled to be appointed CEO of MemorialCare’s Long Beach hospitals,” says Bishop. “We have a long history of providing outstanding care to our communities and my commitment and challenge is to improve the health care experience we provide to our patients and their families every day. The health care industry is facing unprecedented challenges. We will continue to transform health care in our communities through collaboration with our physicians, nurses, support staff and community, who support us in offering the highest quality and most compassionate care. My goal is to guide our organization on a path that maximizes the value we provide and results in a surrounding community that is as healthy as it can be.”
Bishop was selected after an extensive interview process, which included meetings with members of the MemorialCare, Long Beach Memorial and Miller Children’s governing boards and with medical and executive leadership.
“Over the course of our interviews, we heard overwhelming support for an internal appointment, someone who would honor the achievements and time-honored traditions at Long Beach Memorial and who has the strength, courage and drive to make the shifts required during these transformational times. That person is John,” says MemorialCare Health System COO Tammie Brailsford. “John was identified early on in his tenure at MemorialCare, through its nationally recognized Leadership Academy that allows us to identify and cultivate leaders from within. With his sincere passion for patients and families, quality and value, he understands our quest to create value in all that we do. John has helped lead our nationally recognized organization to expand services beyond the hospital walls and make a tremendous difference in the health and well-being of the communities served.”
Among Bishop’s immediate priorities, he will lead growth in key centers of clinical excellence; strengthen relationships and opportunities with physicians; enhance the work environment to benefit all employees; maximize the experience of patients and families; replace the CFO position; oversee the addition of convenient, community-based outpatient centers; and pursue a strategy to advance Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Southern California.
Bishop has served as treasurer of California Children’s Hospital Association, speaks frequently on health care topics and was just named among the Nation’s Top CFOs in Health Care by Becker’s Hospital Review. He is a long-time resident of Long Beach, California, and holds a degree in accounting from University of Southern California.
“I feel very privileged to be appointed CEO of such an outstanding institution at this exciting, pivotal time in our history and look forward to working closely with the talented leadership throughout MemorialCare Health System to ensure that our Long Beach hospitals and community-based programs and services continue to realize their extraordinary potential,” adds Bishop.
About MemorialCare Health System
With more than 200 care locations throughout Orange and Los Angeles counties, MemorialCare Health System is a nonprofit, integrated delivery system that includes six top hospitals – Long Beach Memorial, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach, Community Hospital Long Beach, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley and Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and San Clemente; MemorialCare Medical Group; Greater Newport Physicians Independent Practice Association (IPA); Seaside Health Plan; ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, urgent care centers and numerous outpatient health centers. To learn more, visit memorialcare.org.
Long Beach Memorial, along with its sister hospital, Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach comprise one of the West’s two largest hospital campuses. Long Beach Memorial—a renowned teaching hospital that appears on the U.S. News & World Report list of America’s Best Hospitals and is one of a handful of hospitals nationally to receive consistent, top Straight A grades from Leapfrog Group for quality and safety—is the region’s first choice for comprehensive care in virtually every medical and surgical specialty. Its Centers of Excellence and prominent physicians continue to receive national accolades for diagnostic, treatment and technological advances. These include MemorialCare Heart and Vascular Institute, MemorialCare Todd Cancer Institute, MemorialCare Rehabilitation Institute, MemorialCare Orthopedic Institute, MemorialCare Neuroscience Institute, MemorialCare Joint Replacement Center, Stroke Program and the Emergency Department and Trauma Center.
Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach is listed among the nation’s 10 largest children’s hospitals by both Modern Healthcare and Becker’s Hospital Review. It is one of only nine children’s hospitals nationally to appear on Leapfrog Group’s Top U.S. Hospitals. Miller Children’s treats 100,000 children annually through its hospital, outpatient specialty and satellite centers for both complex and common conditions and provides maternity care for expectant mothers. Only five percent of all hospitals are children’s hospitals, making them unique to health care across the region. Miller Children’s is renowned for advances in treating fragile newborns with one of the nation’s largest and most respected neonatal intensive care units and for pioneering advancements in perinatal medicine; for its Jonathan Jaques Children’s Cancer Center; pediatric heart, orthopedics and emergency centers; and rated among the best in the U.S. for treating cystic fibrosis, red blood disorders and sickle cell anemia.
Community Hospital Long Beach serves the greater Long Beach area with a number of top quality medical services, including 24-hour emergency services and intensive care, state-of-the-art imaging, cardiovascular diagnostics, occupational medicine, diabetes services and more. It recently received a top A grade from Leapfrog Group for quality and safety. MemorialCare Center for Mental Health & Wellness at Community Hospital Long Beach offers a full spectrum of mental health programs to maximize the continuum of care for each patient, including a psychiatric inpatient program, outpatient psychiatric clinic and a partial hospitalization/intensive outpatient program. To address the overwhelming, continuous medical needs of expectant and new mothers who suffer devastating depression and/or anxiety, the Center offers one of the nation’s only perinatal mood and anxiety disorder programs with inpatient and outpatient care and leading treatments for depression and other issues.
