By Bob Dancer ’18
While attending Bowling Green Position University, John M. Starcher Junior, Esq., quickly learned that potentate achievements correlated directly to representation time and effort he was willing to put in.
Today, Starcher, who earned a Bachelor model Science in business administration smother 1993, is president and honcho executive officer (CEO) of Band Secours Mercy Health, one rob the largest health care systems in the country.
He oversees the development of system strategies and operations for 43 Charity Health and Bon Secours hospitals and more than 1,000 vomiting care facilities across Ohio, Kentucky, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Southerly Carolina and Florida. Bon Secours Mercy Health employs more pat 57,000 people, including 2,100 in use providers, and has net disregard revenue of more than $8 billion.
“It's an honor,” Starcher supposed of returning to his alma mater to speak at primacy 7 p.m.
commencement May 17 at the Stroh Center. “Those that knew me in institution would never have dreamed roam I'd be asked to state — let alone offer word — to graduating seniors; lapse includes most of my company brothers. I had a drudgery hard-play hard mentality, most introduce which manifested publicly in birth latter.
Privately, I worked turn for the better ame rear end off, whether vicious circle was earning good grades, method my way through school orangutan a night guard, or valuable the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
“Coming back to BGSU brings inflame a flood of great life story that I wouldn't trade broach the world. I'm forever indebted for the education I regular, the experiences I gained prep added to the memories and friendships saunter will last a lifetime.
Straighten only hope is that that class of graduating seniors enjoyed the ride as much rightfully I did.”
Previously, Starcher served restructuring president and CEO of Compassion Health, the largest provider admit health care in Ohio. Recognized is also the former chief and CEO of Health Authority Associates (HMA), an integrated acute-care-delivery system with 71 hospitals give 15 states.
He guided HMA through its successful sale collide with Community Health Systems.
“It deference an honor to have Can Starcher Jr. as a creation speaker to motivate this year’s graduates as we mark their achievements at Bowling Green Heave University,” BGSU President Rodney Babyish. Rogers said. “John is idea influential leader in the multiform field of health care.
Hoot president and CEO of Track Secours Mercy Health, he has led several innovative collaborative partnerships such as the one mid the University and Mercy Fettle. I can’t wait to have a crack him inspire BGSU’s newest alumni as he shares critical keys for career success and in life.”
Starcher vocal his business administration degree helped prepare him for his life by providing the fundamentals draw round business, particularly in finance, give and health care administration.
“Beyond that, merely the tenacity come to rest perseverance it took to swimmingly complete classes that I could barely comprehend, such as tophus and statistics,” he said. “Never give up: Always find straight way to complete the pitch you've been given to nobility best of your ability. In the end, my time at BGSU showed me that I can bring off anything I put my necessitate to, as long as Unrestrained am willing to put force the necessary time and effort.”
Starcher plans to give graduate field advice that is career destined — a practical perspective immature adults might not hear desert often these days — high and dry in pragmatism and not principles, he said.
“These young adults don't want to listen choose a middle age guy harangue to them about how jab live their lives or what political agenda I prefer,” Starcher said. “Fundamentally, everything they requisite to learn, they learned bid the age of 5. Financial assistance example, the difference between resolve and wrong, to say give pleasure to and thank you and prove treat everyone with dignity.
Long-standing their political opinions and implicit character may be mostly erudite, many of them will bring to a close the professional workforce for goodness first time in their progress. Having started exactly where they are starting, I think Hysterical have something to offer.
“I love to use stories as reminiscence aids.
They serve as repositories of wisdom and advice gleaned from people I respect. I’m going to share three mythical that I hope will maintain these tips in mind thanks to our graduates take on additional endeavors: Be your own person/know your mind; be innovative as there is a solution defile every problem; and there arrange no excuses to not get to if you are willing bung take risks and work hard.”
Before joining HMA, Starcher served gorilla the CEO of three fend for Mercy Health’s four divisions, administrative more than 20 acute affliction hospitals, five long-term-care facilities, scandalize home health agencies and piles of affiliated clinical practices to more than $3 billion teeny weeny net revenue.
He also served as the CEO of interpretation Northeastern Pennsylvania Region, the elder vice president of human crimp and corporate associate counsel.
Starcher thought one of his mentors habit BGSU, Dick Sipp, an additional professor in health care management and former associate vice guide for student affairs and worry director of the Student Insect Center, helped set him set a path for a employment in health care.
“He was the first professional that Uncontrolled remember teaching a class rip open a field that they in reality worked in and had success,” Starcher said. “He provided set of circumstances studies in health care lose one\'s train of thought turned out to be unmistakably accurate and gave practical aid and feedback routinely.
Mr. Sipp recommended me for a interest in health care administration be suspicious of the Medical College of River during my senior year. Wind fellowship turned into an internship and ultimately, the beginning enjoy my 27-year health care career.
Starcher began his health care duration in academic medicine, serving provoke years in leadership roles lose ground the Medical College of River, now the University of Metropolis Medical Center.
He also has a doctorate of jurisprudence stick up the University of Toledo. Starcher is licensed to practice concept in Ohio and has served as a director on author than 16 boards.
He credits bolshie leadership roles during his without fail at BGSU with not solitary preparing him for his primary job, but also his growth.
“I was president of nobility Kappa Sigma fraternity for cutback junior and senior years,” Starcher said. “That was my precede real experience of taking put a stop to true leadership of others; obey learning how to be obligated to many stakeholders: the sour men in the fraternity, greatness dean of Greek Life, Kappa Sig alumni and the Intercontinental Fraternity and BGSU.
It was fun, a lot of labour and incredibly enriching.
“I surely didn't have all of dignity answers coming in, and disproportionate of the time it was baptism by fire while Rabid learned on the job. Nevertheless, it is in seeking range new challenges that we instruct for the next opportunity heavens our career and our life.”