Debbie Dudley Branson on governing a safety-net system in peril | A Modern Healthcare podcast

Debbie Dudley Branson, who chairs the board of managers at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas, is Modern Healthcare's 2014 Trustee of Year honoree for not-for-profit health systems. She led the board through a particularly challenging time for the public safety-net organization, after the CMS cited Parkland for quality-of-care deficiencies, requiring it to complete a corrective action plan or face the loss of funding from Medicare and Medicaid. At the same time, the board had to conduct an executive search after the system decided not to renew the contract for the longtime CEO. Listen to what she learned from those experiences. Read her story here.