{"id":2944,"date":"2015-02-25T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T10:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2015-02-26T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:31:47","slug":"sylvia-getman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/sylvia-getman\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 122: President & CEO of The Aroostook Medical Center Sylvia Getman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 122
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, February\u00a021
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Sylvia Getman
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

President and CEO\u00a0of The Aroostook Medical Center <\/a>(TAMC) Sylvia Getman <\/b>is from Wisconsin, and as her father was in the Army, travelled around a lot when she was young. She\u00a0<\/b>earned her\u00a0bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has a long history of volunteerism and commitment to community organizations, especially in the area of healthcare advocacy and economic development.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) sat down with President & CEO of TAMC Sylvia Getman (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Prior to coming to Maine, she was the President and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. She also served as Chief Executive Officer of Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage, Iowa and as a Vice President for Network Systems for Mercy Medical Center \u2013 North Iowa in Mason City, Iowa. While in Iowa, Getman was the Project Director for the EHR10 Electronic Health Record Project for Mercy Medical Center and eight rural hospitals.<\/p>\n

Since August 2010, Getman\u00a0has served as President and CEO of The Aroostook Medical Center (TAMC), Maine’s\u00a025th largest employer.\u00a0 She also serves as Senior Vice President of Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS).\u00a0\u00a0Getman and Stevoe\u00a0discussed her\u00a0approach at TAMC, with partnering the business-side of hospital administration with the clinical-side.<\/p>\n

She is a board member of the Maine Hospital Association, serves on the Maine Hospital Association Policy Committee, is Vice Chair of Aroostook Partnership for Progress, and is a Workforce Investment board member. She is also a member of the Presque Isle Rotary Club, University of Maine Foundation, serves as an alternate for the American Hospital Association Regional Policy Board and is one of 20 2013\/2014 AHA Healthcare Transformation Fellows.<\/p>\n

The Aroostook Medical Center (TAMC), located in Presque Isle,\u00a0is a not-for-profit organization and\u00a0is the leading provider of healthcare services in Northern Maine. With over 60 physicians and a team of over 1000 employees, TAMC is an advanced rural hospital, with healthcare services ranging from cancer care, cardiology, dialysis, sleep medicine, imaging, emergency response, and\u00a0orthopedics services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President and CEO Sylvia Getman stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to talk with host Steve Woods about preventative healthcare in rural Maine. The two also discussed the intersects of public policy and healthcare, as well as The Affordable Care Act. Getman also told Stevoe how TAMC is focused on providing total-life healthcare, meaning to help people have a good life and a good death. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}