What Happened?
Nashville, TN-based Vanguard Health hired Scott Blanchette as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Vanguard Health Systems is an operator of hospitals and other medical facilities in five U.S. states: Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Texas. The company's headquarters are located in Nashville, Tennessee. Vanguard owns twenty-six hospitals, including the ten Detroit Medical Center hospitals in Detroit, Michigan, five in San Antonio, Texas, four in the Chicago area, four in the Phoenix, Arizona area.
About the Person
Previously, Blanchette served as senior vice president and CIO for Vanguard Health Systems, which was acquired last year by Tenet Healthcare. He also served as CIO for Healthways and held senior management positions at Stanford University Medical Center and Ernst & Young. He is a founder and president of Hangar9 Solutions, a professional services firm that provides IT services to small and mid-sized hospitals and health care systems. As CIO, he is responsible for the technology strategy, execution, and business operations of departments across Vanguard’s $7B portfolio of assets, including hospitals and hospital systems, ambulatory clinics, health plans, lab companies, and more than fifty related health and health care business ventures. Scott previously served in senior management roles at Stanford University Medical Center, Ernst & Young, and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Prior to corporate life, he spent 10 years in the US military. For six years Scott served on the staff of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council’s to President Bush and Obama. He currently serves as an advisor to the Heritage Health Investment Fund.
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