10. Leading Through COVID & Beyond w/ Geoffrey Hall MBA, MSW

In this episode, we discuss courage and humility as essential for leading through a pandemic and beyond in order to save lives and honor your staff. Geoffrey Hall MBA, MSW has more than 20 years’ experience in Healthcare Administration and earned his MBA in Management and Operations from Walden University, a Master of Social Work from East Carolina University, and a Bachelor of Social Work from Auburn University. Geoffrey joined the Cleveland Clinic Rehabilitation Hospital system in October, 2016 and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Rehabilitation Hospital, Edwin Shaw located in Akron, Ohio. Prior to this position, Geoffrey served as the Administrator for the nationally ranked Rusk Rehabilitation as part of the NYU Langone Health system from 2009 – 2016.

 

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Jason Shaw from Audionautix.com

 

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[00:00:00] Patrick Swift PhD, MBA, FACHE: [00:00:00] Welcome folks to the Swift healthcare video podcast.

[00:00:03] Thank you for joining. I am delighted with our guests that I have for you. I believe this is a very special treat and a dear colleague and friend of mine I've known for, for 10 plus years. And I want to welcome to the show. Geoffrey Hall, Geoffrey. Welcome to the show.

[00:00:18] Geoffrey Hall, MBA, MSW: [00:00:18] Thank you very much.

[00:00:19] Patrick Swift PhD, MBA, FACHE: [00:00:19] Hey, I'm glad you're here. And folks, let me read you a bio for Jeffrey, and I think you're gonna enjoy this.

[00:00:25] Jeffrey Hall has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare administration. Jeffrey obtained an MBA in management and operations from Walden university. A master of social work from East Carolina university and a bachelor of social work from Auburn university to hear the thread of heart in the work that he does.

[00:00:42]He joined the Cleveland clinic rehabilitation hospital system in October, 2016, and currently serves as the chief executive officer for the Cleveland clinic rehabilitation hospital, Edwin Shaw, located in Akron, Ohio. Go Ohio prior to this position, Jeffrey served as the administrator for the nationally ranked Rusk rehabilitation as part of the NYU Langone health system from 2009 to 2016.

[00:01:07]And, uh, as a dear personal friend of mine, . I have traveled the world with Jeff. We haven't gone to China. We've gone to Qingdao and long Joe in Beijing and, and touch many lives. And. Moved education, health, education, medical education forward, and Jeffrey with all my heart.

[00:01:24] Welcome to Swift video podcast. Okay.

[00:01:26] Geoffrey Hall, MBA, MSW: [00:01:26] Thank you, Patrick. That was quite the introduction.

[00:01:29] Patrick Swift PhD, MBA, FACHE: [00:01:29] Well, there's a lot of love there. Right, right, right, right.

[00:01:32] Geoffrey Hall, MBA, MSW: [00:01:32] Absolutely.

[00:01:33]Patrick Swift PhD, MBA, FACHE: [00:01:33] So our episode for today, we are looking at leading through COVID and beyond if I had a sound effect, I would. Tied in, right. They're leading through COVID and beyond . Let's talk about this.

[00:01:46]Geoffrey Hall, MBA, MSW: [00:01:46] I would start by saying that, , certainly 2020 was probably one of the most interesting and maybe personally the most challenging years as a healthcare executive that I can remember and, I think you have to look back to how this pandemic started in end of February, early parts of March, and just the uncertainty and the, the prevailing sense of, of dread and even fear.

[00:02:10] , I remember just the one-on-one conversations with my frontline caregivers, nurses, therapists, doctors, , as well as our, our leadership team. And there's just so much uncertainty and so much unknown as, as COVID really started to kind of spread across the world. And I know here in our Cleveland, , Ohio area, , in the,

[00:02:32] partnership with Cleveland clinic. the entire region was just preparing for this massive surge of patients that looked like it was going to, at that time overwhelm the local hospital system, there was not going to be enough beds. There was not going to be enough caregivers. the Cleveland. Clinic itself was, , Decommis