UF Health names Stephen Motew president and CEO of its clinical enterprise
UF Health announced in a news release on Tuesday that it has named Stephen Motew president and CEO of its clinical enterprise.
Effective April 1, Motew will lead UF Health’s integrated patient care system. The regional CEOs at UF Health Shands, UF Health Jacksonville, UF Health Central Florida, and UF Health St. Johns and the CEOs of UF Health’s faculty practices will report to Motew.
With more than two decades of leadership experience, Motew, a practicing vascular surgeon, joins UF Health from the Inova Health System in Northern Virginia, where he has served as the executive vice president and chief of clinical enterprise, accountable for all clinical operations and outcomes, health system transformation strategy, operating model reconfiguration, and profit and loss.
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He will now oversee UF Health’s clinical mission as the university’s academic health center pursues an integrated model that harmonizes operating and financial oversight, increases transparency, and sets systemwide strategic goals through the creation of a new UF Health clinical system corporate structure.
“Steve is simply stellar, an advocate for patient-focused quality clinical care and innovation,” UF President Ben Sasse said in the news release. “This step is part of our long-term plan for the deliberate and thoughtful growth of UF Health as we reach new heights in health care.”
The UF Health corporation is a new legal entity approved by the UF board of trustees in December. It will serve as the parent corporation to guide the organizational, financial, and strategic goals for UF Health’s clinical enterprise — the UF Health hospitals and physician practice plans in Gainesville, Jacksonville, and across its other regional sites.
“This is important work, and I am excited to embark on this journey with my new colleagues at UF Health, one of the nation’s most successful and well-respected health care organizations,” Motew said. “Together we will continue to develop common goals focused on serving our patients and our communities. Our shared professional expertise and personal commitment to improving lives will propel us to the next level as we work collectively to cultivate a culture of excellence.”
Motew’s experience in change management, having moved from a hospital-based operating model to a system service line model across an integrated enterprise, will be critical to UF Health’s system integration initiative, Sasse said.
A transition committee has been convened to develop additional recommendations, including those related to governance, organizational structure across UF Health’s regional health sites, development of bylaws, and other related matters.
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: UF Health names new president and CEO of its clinical enterprise
