Amy Compton-Phillips: CCO at Providence Health (Raise the Line)

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Hi, I'm Shivani. Thanks for checking out our raise the line interview series.
In which me and my cohost osmosis, Chief Medical Officer Dr Rishi Desai explore how to strengthen our healthcare system with some amazing leaders in medicine, technology, education and government and they have some great advice for people starting careers in healthcare as well.
I hope you'll watch these highlights and then go listen to the full podcast interview wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Sh in today on RA line.
I'm really happy to be joined by Doctor Amy Compton Phillips, who's the Executive vice president and Chief Clinical Officer at Providence Health Providence is one of the nation's largest healthcare systems with 51 hospitals.
More than 1000 clinics in over seven states. In that role, she oversees the clinical care provided by more than 100 20,000 caregivers.
She was also involved in treating some of the first patients with COVID-19 in the US and is a medical analyst for CNN. So you may see her on that channel.
So you wear quite a few hats and I guess the, the first hat that we're curious about is how you actually decided to pursue a career in, in healthcare.
Yeah. You know, I have a really super boring story because I never wanted to do anything other than be a doctor.
Um, and in fact, from the time I was kindergarten on, I always said I was gonna go to medical school. Um, there was a brief period of time maybe in seventh grade that I thought maybe I'd be a vet instead until I realized they had to put dogs to sleep.
And I was like, you know, I'm not strong enough for that. So went into medicine and uh just kinda kinda straight through on a straight and narrow path.
What advice would you give to our audience of current and future healthcare professionals in terms of meeting the moment of COVID and beyond?
So there's a couple of things, if you think really deeply about what do you wanna accomplish? Like II said earlier, my personal mission is to make great health and great care, affordable and available for.
All right. But it took me a while to come up with that.
But if you know where you wanna go, there's 1000 paths to get there. And so what can you do to continuously think about?
How do I get closer to that? Because it might feel sideways from what you're doing today?
Like, why would I read about anthropology and quarks? But I don't know because, because how is that going to influence my future?
And So, so by thinking about the end game and thinking about the myriad pa you have to get there. It, I think it opens up possibilities.
I have mentor a lot of younger people and I definitely advocate for continuing to be curious, continuing to learn and continuing to think about the myriad ways you could accomplish your goals.
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