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OpusVi featured on MGMA: Online education builds the workforce medical groups need today

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24/03/2021

At the height of the pandemic, more than 1.5 million healthcare workers lost their jobs. While staff reductions are the choice for some, many healthcare organizations are working to find alternative solutions, such as moving staff into other roles in the healthcare system and connecting with patients via video screens, thus disrupting the traditional care delivery process.

Such circumstances have forced health system leaders to ask people to make significant changes to their professional and personal lives virtually overnight. As a result, workers have lost security and confidence. What was once stable has become acutely unstable and uncertain.

Our CEO Andrew Malley, and Bob Ritz, President and CEO of MercyOne, recently spoke to Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) about how workforce development can be a vital resource to addressing these challenges and how health systems can ensure that their educational initiatives provide a return on investment and strengthen the DNA of their organization. Read the full article, which also appeared in MGMA’s April print issue, here.

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Andrew Malley

Andrew Malley

Chief Executive Officer at OpusVi™

Andrew Malley

Chief Executive Officer at OpusVi™

Andrew is an experienced higher education leader with over 18 years of experience in education globally, in both the public and private sector. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool in the UK and a qualified teacher in languages. He has worked, lived, and led projects in South Korea, Turkey, Italy, the UK, India, the U.S. and across Africa, as a teacher, manager, and director. Having taught and led in education around the world, he has firsthand knowledge of the positive change and empowerment that education can provide to individuals and communities. As a leader in the establishment of OpusVi, Andrew firmly believes in providing high-quality and work-based learning to the healthcare workforce. He understands the great impact industry and higher education can have when they work together in an effective, cohesive, and innovative way.

Robert “Bob” P. Ritz

Robert “Bob” P. Ritz

CEO of MercyOne

Robert “Bob” P. Ritz

CEO of MercyOne

Bob Ritz is the CEO of MercyOne, an integrated system of over 40 hospitals and 420 healthcare facilities dedicated to delivering outstanding healthcare services to improve the health of people throughout Iowa and surrounding areas. Prior to leading at MercyOne, Bob served as President of Mercy Medical Center, an 802-bed acute care, not-for-profit Catholic hospital situated on three campuses in the Des Moines metro area. Guided by a faith-based mission, he also served in previous administrative roles as Division President of Hospital Sisters Health System in Springfield, Illinois; President/CEO of Monongalia Health System in Morgantown, West Virginia; and President/CEO of St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, where he started his career in 1987.