an executive steering committee,
what makes ours different is that
we also have a product category
team serving as the inflection point
to understand what’s happening
in the facilities and generate lots of
grassroot ideas that are evaluated
and monitored for broad standardiza-
tion across our nine-state footprint.”
Due to the firm’s significant transfor-
mation over the past two years which
has seen the number of StewardHealth Care hospitals dramatically
increase from 10 to 38, the company
considers innovation a key pillar to its
future growth and pivotal to success.
“We fundamentally believe innovation
is the core,” explains Prokopis. “Due
to the way we’ve expanded, we’re
moving at the speed of light. I like
to joke that we’re a car moving down
the road at 100mph and we’re not only
changing the tires, but we’re also going
to swap out the engine and the122
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