State of Care with Baptist Health President & CEO Troy Wells: An Attitude of Gratitude
By Troy Wells, President and CEO of Baptist Health “Gratitude” has become a buzzword during the past decade or so, partly because of one of the concepts Gretchen Rubin popularized in her book The Happiness Project. Rubin contended that a key component of happiness is to make a conscious effort to acknowledge things you are […]
State of Care with Baptist Health President & CEO Troy Wells: Highlighting Another 100th Anniversary
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Baptist Health, I want to highlight that it’s also the 100th anniversary of our educational program, which began with the original School of Nursing that opened at the same time as the original hospital. Nursing education has changed significantly during the past 100 years, as has nursing practice. […]
State of Care with Baptist Health President & CEO Troy Wells: Mind, Body, and Spirit
By Troy Wells, President and CEO of Baptist Health More often than not, when I ask people how they’re doing, they say they’re tired—everything from being tired of wearing masks to being emotionally tired from living with a constant sense of fear to being physically tired from pushing themselves beyond their normal capacity. People struggling […]
State of Care with Baptist Health President & CEO Troy Wells: Perspective Is Everything
By Troy Wells, President and CEO of Baptist Health I find myself wondering how the COVID-19 pandemic will be viewed 100 years from now. What records will survive? How will our actions and reactions be judged by people who have the benefit of historical perspective? When the COVID-19 pandemic began, we had more questions than […]
State of Care with Baptist Health President & CEO Troy Wells: Hot (and Cool) New Technology
By Troy Wells, President and CEO of Baptist Health We were blessed with a gloriously pleasant day for our 100th anniversary press conference, which was held in the garden of the Little Rock campus on June 22. The week before the event, the temperatures were much higher along with high humidity levels—the kind of sticky […]
State of Care with Baptist Health President & CEO Troy Wells: The Power of ‘Yes’
By Troy Wells, President and CEO of Baptist Health Baptist Health has always embodied one of my favorite philosophies—the power of saying “yes” and seeing what happens. I’ve seen the results of this philosophy in my own life—when you say “yes” and want to be part of something, good things happen. We’ve seen this philosophy […]