About Kada Health

Senior Advisor - Health System Leadership & Operations Improvement

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Shane Cerone, MHA

• As President of Beaumont, Royal Oak, Shane led one of the nation’s largest teaching hospitals and referral centers. Under his leadership, Beaumont was consistently ranked as a national leader in care quality and safety by the University HealthSystem Consortium (now Vizient), in the top 1% for clinical reputation by US News and World Report and as a top 1% performer in affordability by the RAND Corporation.
• Led the financial turnaround of a community health system, transforming a 20% operating loss into positive cash flow margin within 6 months.
• Led an operations improvement transformation for an East Coast Academic Medical Center resulting in a 10% increase in top line revenue by rapidly enhancing patient throughput in a busy quaternary care center.
• Led a community health system through the COVID-19 pandemic. The system was the first to achieve full staff vaccination and opened the largest single vaccination site in the state. Operations were maintained throughout the pandemic and virtually no agency staff were utilized.

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Senior Advisor – Outpatient Care Development & Operations

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Cory Kruger, RRT, BS, MHA

Cory brings extensive executive experience to Kada Health as a Director, Vice President and CEO of numerous facilities. Dedicated to ensuring that healthcare organizations thrive, he helps health systems, hospitals, and physicians successfully open and operate outpatient facilities, including Imaging Centers, Office Based Laboratories, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Hospital Outpatient Departments, and more.

• Cory served in roles as CEO of an ambulatory surgery center, CEO of a surgical hospital, and a Vice President of Operations leading a large multi-state region of acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, Office Based Laboratories, and Management Services Organizations, partnering with major health systems and physician groups.
• He has lead and developed customer-focused and innovative award-winning teams who have delivered:
  • Award winning patient safety and clinical outcomes rankings,
  • Top decile patient, physician, and employee satisfaction scores,
  • Cost containment, year-over-year improved profit margins, and
  • Robust financial success leading to strong partnership distributions.

Cory is adept at creating and strategically aligning joint ventures, and developing prosperous portfolios.

Senior Advisor – Financial Management & Strategic Planning

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Mark Hingtgen has held senior roles at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Iowa Health Care, and Washington University School of Medicine. He has expertise in strategic financial planning, operational management, and managing enterprise-wide transformations. Mark is committed to shaping the future of health care organizations through advisory support on programmatic investments, operational management, and key decisions.

Senior Advisor - Quality, Safety, Performance Improvement & Population Health

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Dr. Samuel Flanders is a seasoned healthcare executive and physician with a distinguished career in quality, safety and performance improvement leadership. He most recently served as Executive Vice President for Quality, Safety, and Population Health at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

Prior to joining St. Luke’s, Dr. Flanders held the position of Senior Vice President and
Chief Quality and Safety Officer at Beaumont Health (Now Corewell) in Michigan. Prior
to Beaumont he served in a similar role at Indiana University Health (formerly known as Clarian Health Partners).

Dr. Flanders earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Michigan. He is board-certified in Pediatrics. For over 30 years he has served as a volunteer physician at summer camps for children with diabetes, helping to educate and support young campers to better control their disease.