Webber steps down as CEO of Maine Health Management Coalition
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Andrew Webber left his post as the CEO and president of Maine Health Management Coalition on June 8.
Michael DeLorenzo assumed the post of interim CEO at Maine Health Management Coalition today, replacing Andrew Webber, who had resigned as the organization’s president and CEO on June 8.
DeLorenzo has a long history with MHMC, having served as director of the organization’s data program before retiring in April 2015. He also served as the interim CEO of the organization during the last executive transition three years ago, when Elizabeth Mitchell left to become president and CEO of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement.
Based in Topsham, MHMC is a nonprofit whose members include hospitals and health care providers, employers, health plans and public and private purchasers. It works with those stakeholders to improve the safety, quality and cost of health care throughout Maine, in part through the use of performance information by employers and employees to guide their health care decisions.
Webber’s resignation was announced in a letter sent out Friday to MHMC’s members as well as Mainebiz. A nationwide search for his successor has begun.
“On June 8th the MHMC’s President and CEO, Andrew Webber, resigned from his position at our organization,” the letter stated. “In strategic discussions with Andy and the Board over the past several weeks, the organization’s governance reached the conclusion and mutual decision that it is time for new leadership at the Coalition. We thank Andy for his guidance of the Coalition over the past three years, the organization’s many accomplishments during that time, and we wish Andy nothing but the best in the future.”
In a brief telephone interview with Mainebiz this morning, Christine Burke, chairwoman of the organization’s board of directors, said Webber’s departure was based on the mutual realization that the challenge of building the organization’s membership going forward required a change in leadership. “Andy has done some very good organizational work during his time with us,” she said, explaining that the board felt a leader with “a very specific skillset” is needed to build on Webber’s accomplishments and help the organization grow by working with its multiple stakeholders.
Burke is executive director of the Maine Education Association Benefits Trust.
“My initial job is to reach out to all of the stakeholders and make sure I listen really well to their concerns and articulate their vision going forward,” DeLorenzo said in a telephone interview with Mainebiz this morning. “Acting on this communication initially is going to be my first job.”
DeLorenzo will serve as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.
In its letter to members, the nonprofit highlighted several accomplishments achieved during Webber’s three-year tenure as CEO, including publicly reporting its first-ever health care cost measures, endorsing Medicaid expansion, promulgated sweeping health care cost containment recommendations, receiving the prestigious Consumers and Patients Quality Award from the National Quality Forum, and implementing a new organizational structure, governance model, and strategic and operational planning process.
The MHMC letter said Webber had “no immediate plans for the future beyond spending more quality time with his wife and teenage daughter.”
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