We take the temperature of Lakewood Ranch Medical Center's new CEO

Jason Madsen originally got into healthcare because of the impact it has on a community. He saw that early in his career working as an EMT, and then more recently in hospital administration roles in Texas and Nevada. His years in the industry have taught him that healthcare is dynamic and should be tailored to the community it s serving.

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I m a true believer that healthcare needs to be managed at a local level, he says. You need to understand the needs of your community and understand how the things that you re doing can impact the various nuances of the community. Madsen, 47, has experience doing just that in a wide range of locations. He joined Northwest Texas Healthcare System in 2017 as associate administrator and then served as interim COO.

In 2020, he became COO of Northern Nevada Health System. Most recently, he served as COO and interim CEO at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Texas. (Universal Health Services, a publicly traded suburban Philadelphia hospital operator and heal