Mariners Hospital CEO: Mr. Rick Freeburg.
Mr. Freeburg, thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy day to meet with me. The first things I would like to talk about are what you consider to be your daily job requirements and change. Please, tell me a little bit about what a “typical day” is like in the healthcare / hospital setting as CEO.
It’s busy. I recently moved within Baptist Health South Florida from Miami to Tavernier, which is in the Florida Keys. My new mantra is “I work in paradise, but it is still work.” A typical day for me generally starts around 8:30 when I come into the office and start looking at e-mails. I’ll get, on average, about 150 e-mails a day. I’ve learned to go through those pretty quickly. If they require some type of response from me, I’ll flag them and get back to them a little later in the day when time permits. And then there are always phone calls — from employees, from the leadership team, from the patients and visitors. These calls usually have to do with some variation of…Read Full Interview