Member Spotlight Patrick Brown, FACHE
What are you doing now? I’m the Vice President, Chief Operating Officer for Methodist Mansfield Medical Center, a 264-bed hospital with more than 1,300 employees and 1,000 physicians. In your opinion, what is the most important issue facing health care today? The most important issue facing health care today is staff burnout, which has led to a labor shortage. After dealing with the pandemic for over 2 years, people are actively leaving the health care profession and the ones that remain have been burned out or are nearing burnout. I’m very concerned about the lasting impacts of this, even post-pandemic. How long have you been a member of ACHE? I’ve been a member of ACHE for 14 years. Why is being a member important to you? Has ACHE membership been a benefit to you in your career? Being a member of ACHE is important to me because it provides an avenue to gain real-time knowledge about relevant issues that are actively affecting health care. It is also important to me because of the networks that are created by being a part of a local chapter. Those networks have been key and beneficial to me, particularly during the pandemic, because I’ve been able to call my colleagues and see how they are handling certain issues that COVID-19 has brought up. Having this access has been extremely valuable to me.
What advice would you give early careerists or those considering membership? I would tell early careerists that becoming a part of ACHE is an opportunity to make an investment in your career, profession, and in the future of health care. I truly believe healthcare leadership is a calling and that we must always be in a state of continual learning. Being a member of ACHE will help early careerists on so many levels. Tell us one thing that people don’t know about you. I love ‘80s music!……Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Guns & Roses, Michael Jackson, Prince, etc.
What is something people might not know about Methodist? Methodist Health System was founded 95 years ago by Methodist ministers and civic leaders to serve Dallas’s underserved neighborhoods. It started as Dallas Methodist Hospital on Christmas Eve, 1927.
