Is Your Organization Excellent? 

Over the past month, the growing competition for consumers (and for health plan contracts) has been the theme of much of our coverage. Mark Mishek, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hazelden Betty Ford—in his keynote, Grow Or Die: Surviving Both The Pandemic & Private Equity, at our 2020 OPEN MINDS Executive Leadership Retreat—spoke to the need to grow to be able to invest in service line development and marketing to address the new competition in the field, much of which is fueled by private equity investments. And we’ve reported on many of those recent investments (see . . .