Scott Reiner: Trading the C-suite for community impact
I worked for a number of years as a senior hospital executive for Adventist Health, a $5 billion system in the western US. Our guest in this episode, Scott Reiner, was the CEO of that system until, at the peak of his career, he walked away to launch a pair of social ventures working to reframe the approach to healthcare in rural southern Africa. In his time at Adventist Health, Scott completely changed the way that I think about healthcare, and I had always wanted to have a chance to sit down with him and hear his take on his journey and on healthcare in general. I hope that you find our conversation as interesting and inspiring as I did.
Episode Summary
Scott Reiner ran a $5 billion health system and walked away. Not because he failed — because he succeeded, and realized the work he most wanted to do was somewhere else entirely. In this founding episode of Healthcare Reframed, he sits down with host Judson Howe (a former Adventist Health executive himself) to talk about why he left, what he found in rural southern Africa, and what three decades of hospital leadership taught him about what's really broken in American medicine. This is a conversation about mission, ego, and the courage required to change your mind about what matters most.
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Scott Reiner
Former CEO, Adventist Health · Social Venture Founder
Scott Reiner served as President and CEO of Adventist Health, a $5 billion integrated health system with 35,000 employees serving communities across the western United States. At what most would consider the peak of his career, he made a decision almost no one saw coming: he stepped down to launch social ventures reimagining healthcare delivery in rural southern Africa. His story challenges everything we assume about success, purpose, and the obligations of those who've been given extraordinary platforms.