AdventHealth among top health care companies featured at the 2019 J.P. Morgan conference

AdventHealth was once again a featured presenter at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California. With more than 400 companies represented, the four-day conference is the industry’s largest health care symposium, bringing together 10,000-plus people, including industry leaders, technology innovators and creators and members of the investment community.

On day two of the event, AdventHealth President/CEO Terry Shaw and Chief Financial Officer Paul Rathbun took the stage, delivering a presentation that covered the organization’s recent brand transformation to AdventHealth, outlined its consumer-focused approach to care delivery and touched on plans for future growth.

AdventHealth’s presentation was part of the elbow-to-elbow nonprofit provider session, where leaders from roughly two dozen of the foremost hospitals and health systems in the country shared their viewpoints and industry insights.

“One of the most striking themes of this year’s conference was a widespread focus on expanding beyond traditional healthcare service delivery to impact population health. The challenges health systems are taking on are massive and varied – including mental health, spiritual care, homelessness, food insecurity, human trafficking and climate change. While the business models for integrated delivery systems (i.e., those with insurance arms or assuming financial risk for populations) may be more aligned to support health rather than treat problems, success in these areas will not simply be measured in traditional financial metrics. This is the new “population health” – not necessarily trying to mimic insurers, but rather addressing a much wider range of issues that influence communities’ health; in a word, it’s AdventHealth’s concept of being whole,” as described by J.P. Morgan.

The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference was the first national industry event the organization took part in since rebranding to AdventHealth. Other health care companies represented at the conference included Ascension, Geisinger, Henry Ford Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Mayo Clinic and Northwell Health.