Hawaii’s Healthcare Transformation Roadmap – Virginia Pressler and Beth Giesting
Host: Josh Green
Guests: Virginia Pressler, MD, Exec VP, Chief Strategic Officer, Hawai’i Pacific Health and Beth Giesting, Governor’s Healthcare Transformation Coordinator
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Dr. Pressler is Executive Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer for Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH).Hawaii Pacific Health is a non-profit healthcare network that includes Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children, Straub Clinic & Hospital, Pali Momi Medical Center, and Wilcox Hospital & Kauai Medical Clinic on Kauai. HPH is the largest healthcare provider in Hawaii, serving the entire state as well as the Pacific islands. Dr. Pressler joined HPH in 2002 and is responsible for strategy, philanthropy and government relations. She also serves as President and Chair of HPH Partners, the subsidiary of Hawaii Pacific Health that oversees all joint ventures.
Beth Giesting’s career has been devoted to promoting good health and health care starting witha position at the University of Texas Cancer Center in Galveston. With a move to Hawaiʻi, she became the executive director of Kalihi-Palama Health Center, where she supervised a substantial expansion of health services for Honolulu residents with language, cultural, and financial barriers to care and developed a new clinic facility. This was followed by a position as CEO of the Hawaiʻi Primary Care Association. At the Association, she promoted equitable health policy and was instrumental in increasing the number of community health centers in the state, adding to the resources that support the medically underserved, promoting oral health and mental health integration with medical care, and expanding competent use of health information technology.
The host for this episode was Josh Green.
The host for this episode was Sen. Josh Green.
