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Trinity CEO: Hospital will be reshaped to meet next generation

CEO TALK — Matt Grimshaw, president and chief executive officer of Trinity Health System, was the featured speaker at Friday’s Steubenville Rotary Club luncheon meeting at the YWCA downtown. Grimshaw expressed confidence that millennials will reshape small towns on the fringe of major metropolitan areas, such as Steubenville in relation to Pittsburgh. -Paul Giannamore

STEUBENVILLE — Millennials will reshape the world and Trinity Health System will be reshaped to meet the next generation.

That was the word from Matt Grimshaw, president and chief executive officer of Trinity Health System, who indicated there are exciting changes on the horizon.

Grimshaw, who became Trinity’s chief last summer, came to the position from leading a hospital in Williston, N.D., in the heart of the Bakken shale drilling boom.

“What made me say ‘yes’, what the appeal here is, I don’t know that everybody recognizes or even believes. A lot of communities are growing, there is a rebirth of downtowns,” he said. “Millennials want to live and work where there is a sense of community again. Millennials say they want to be where they live and work and have a community and are not anonymous and live in a suburb where people don’t know or care anything about them.”

Grimshaw said Steubenville can grow as a community with the best of access to Pittsburgh without becoming a Pittsburgh suburb, by being “a place where you know your neighbor and want to work to build your community.”

Grimshaw said when Catholic Health Initiatives approached him about his next career move from Williston, where he oversaw hospital operations during explosive growth in the community from the drilling boom (he said the 25-bed hospital delivered 825 babies in one year), he said he didn’t want to go to a suburban hospital, “one that is today what it was 10 years ago and will be 10 years from now what it is today.”

He said his job at Trinity is to oversee growth and change to meet the next generation as the community undergoes what he sees as positive changes by those shifting demographic trends.

He said the hospital is the only 4-star hospital, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, in the region because its outcomes for patients remain better than the national average. He expressed a confidence in the hospital and its staff.

“If it’s a service that we offer, I would get it done here. You don’t need to go to Pittsburgh,” he said.

He emphasized that places such as the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., attract patients from around the world because they focus on the patient and stick with the patient until their needs are met.

“If you are here for a paycheck, you will probably burn out and leave. If you are a young person interested today in a nursing career, if you go into it to be about the patient, you will be successful. If you provide for their best experience and care for them, if you do that, you will be wildly successful,” he said.

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