Nancy Schlichting ’79 named to Modern Health care Hall of Fame

An exemplar of unconventional management, Nancy Schlichting ’79 will be inducted into the Modern day Healthcare Corridor of Fame. The acclaimed health and fitness program govt and writer is an alumnus and longtime supporter of the Sloan Plan in Well being Administration, now element of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks University of Public Policy.

“The Cornell Sloan Program, just one of the 1st graduate systems in healthcare administration in the United States, played a critical role in my preparation for a wonderful occupation,” Schlichting stated. “I am honored to be inducted, and to adhere to in the footsteps of Percy Allen, II a fellow Sloan alumnus (’75), who was inducted in 2011.” 

The award is one of the healthcare industry’s most prestigious honors. A partnership in between Modern-day Healthcare, an business company publication, and the American University of Health care Executives (ACHE), the Hall of Fame inductees have manufactured “outstanding and lasting contributions to the healthcare industry.”

Schlichting joins 112 some others now in the Corridor of Fame and her identify will be provided on a plaque at Pennsylvania Medical center in Philadelphia, the nation’s to start with medical center started by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond.

She was nominated for the award by two Cornellians, Brooke Hollis ’78 and Joe Tasse ’79.  Both are active in the Sloan Alumni Association and Hollis teaches classes in the program. They highlighted Schlichting’s many contributions to the program’s accomplishment, which include her company as a mentor to college students and her tenure as Govt-in-Residence.

“Sloan has normally had outstanding college students and faculty, and there has hardly ever been a extra vital time for pupils to contemplate a vocation in health care leadership,” Schlichting stated. “It is not only particularly significant to give management in health care, but also amazingly satisfying to work with remarkable folks and to serve communities. The pandemic and the aim on healthcare equity have highlighted the vital function of health care in our globe, and the will need for the finest leaders to travel necessary changes.”  

Schlichting obtained her undergraduate degree from Duke University and then, at Cornell, her MBA and Sloan Certificate in Clinic and Health Services Administration. That credential is now supplied as a Learn of Wellbeing Administration via the Brooks School. She retired in 2017 right after a 35-calendar year job in senior degree executive positions at key instructing hospitals and as Chief Government Officer of the 27,000-worker Henry Ford Wellness Method (HFHS).

She guided the Detroit-dependent health and fitness procedure as a result of a dramatic fiscal turnaround and directed award-successful individual safety, customer services and range initiatives. Underneath her leadership, HFHS acquired the 2011 Malcolm Baldridge National Top quality Award. Among the her several other distinctions ended up her roles in the revitalization efforts in the Town of Detroit in local community enhancement and her chairing President Obama’s Fee on Health care in 2015 to strategically arrange the Veterans’ Health Administration, find well being treatment assets and supply treatment to veterans.

Schlichting authored a well-been given reserve, “Unconventional Leadership,” that described her style of confronting actuality and top headlong as a result of adversity. “Being a lady on the increase in a male-dominated domain and a closeted lesbian managing a area of Catholic hospitals are two pieces in a larger puzzle of encounters that built bravery and assurance obligatory for me,” she wrote. “They are also a aspect of why I am regarded as unconventional – simply because I’m different and I have appear to see that as a key benefit. It has presented me the license to depart from business enterprise norms and traditions that are no for a longer period successful.”

Present day Healthcare Hall of Fame inductees are formally honored in a ceremony in Chicago through the ACHE Congress on Healthcare Management.