Vice president, risk management
St. Joseph Health System
Orange, CA
After beginning her healthcare career as an emergency room nurse, Lisa Ramthun’s passion for helping people led her to her current position as VP of risk management for St. Joseph Health System. With more than 25 years of experience in healthcare, Ramthun is a recognized thought leader in the areas of risk management, healthcare reliability and patient safety.
At St. Joseph, Ramthun has worked tirelessly to revolutionize the organization’s approach to risk management. “Risk used to happen in a silo,” she says. “Now we understand the importance and value of an enterprise risk management approach. I believe an enterprise risk model approach, where everyone is a risk manager, is vital in order to make real progress in improving the health and experience of patients and community members, making populations healthier, and reducing the rate of growth in healthcare spending and per-capita cost of healthcare.”
Considering the changing landscape of healthcare, Ramthun makes sure to stay up-to-date with the industry’s evolving risks. “There’s a lot of uncertainty in healthcare right now,” she says. “As an organization, we’re monitoring the acceleration of payment reform and potential changes to the Affordable Care Act.”
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