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Bassam A. Kawwass, FACHE
Bassam A. Kawwass, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer
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During his career of more than thirty seven years in health services administration, Mr. Kawwass has served in senior management and leadership roles helping making visions come true in academic medical centers, hospitals, acute care and mental health hospital management companies, physician groups, health management program and facility development, strategic planning consulting firms, correctional health services, billing and collections, information technology and software application service providers.
Within the scope of his institutional management roles, he served as CEO of several hospitals ranging from 350 beds to 60 beds, as well as Hospital Vice President with primary responsibility for medical staff affairs, operations, planning and marketing. His physician practice experience included directing ambulatory services at a 420-bed teaching hospital, establishing and directing hospital-physician multi-specialty group practices, and being the catalyst for the development of a network of primary care physician practices and rural hospitals around a tertiary care teaching hospital hub. He also served as Administrator of the largest department in a medical school, with responsibilities for patient care, education and clinical research functions and activities. Mr. Kawwass assumed the role of hospital administrator, hospital planning, construction and development specialist, turn-around executives for the largest for-profit, psychiatric hospital corporation. His turn-around experience included rural hospitals, inner city hospitals, as well as physician practices and medical school departments.
Mr. Kawwass has extensive experience in the start-up, development and marketing of new patient care programs, as well as, the design, construction and management of psychiatric and medical-surgical, long term care health care facilities, ambulatory care centers, and hospitals. He has directed major design, construction, and commissioning of projects of several health care facilities, worldwide. Bassam worked throughout the United States, Middle East, Western Europe, and the Caribbean: American University of Beirut Medical Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Hariri Medical Center, Saudi Hospital Management Company, Hospital Supply International, First Hospital Corporation, Riverside Health System, Sentara Health System, Montgomery General Hospital and Health System, Eastern Virginia Medical School, The World Bank, STAT Medical Information on Demand, AScript, Medical Administrative Counsel, and The Muasher Center for Fertility and IVF).
Bassam was responsible for developing the strategic plan and directing the financial turnaround in an academic physician practice plan, and improved the bottom line more than 600% to the point that his department generated nearly 40% of the total patient revenue for the medical school faculty practice. He has extensive experience in medical records and information technology, physician recruitment, program development, joint ventures, practice management and health administration.
Mr. Kawwass completed his master’s degree in health and hospital administration education at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, with a residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore. He received his health information management education at St. Louis University, St. Louis, and his bachelor degree in business administration education at the American University of Beirut. He is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) and a Board Certified Fellow Healthcare Executive (FACHE).
Bassam served as a member of the ACHE Regent's Advisory Council of Virginia, 1999-2006. He was elected for two terms to serve as President of the Health Care Administrators of Tidewater, the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He served as a health services administration and strategic planning consultant to The World Bank. He has provided professional services to clients, internationally. Bassam has concentrated his efforts on engagements in the areas of strategic planning, physician-hospital bonding and development, physician practice start-up and management, practice management and electronic medical records software administration, information technology, hospital-physician bonding strategies, academic medical center performance improvement, hospital based clinical program development, clinical research development and management, infrastructure development, and corporate and hospital turn-around projects.
Mr. Kawwass currently serves on several national and state advisory committees: The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Editorial Board Committee, and the ACHE Bylaws Committee, and the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Technology and Science (JCOTS). Currently, Bassam is the ACHE Regent-at-Large for Region 2 (Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico).
Bassam was the recipient of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Virginia Regent’s 2002 Leadership Award this winter. He was also the recipient of the Governor Caperton’s Award for planning and establishing a model primary care center in Gualey Bridge, West Virginia.
Bassam is married to Nada Nassar Kawwass who holds degrees in history from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Universite de Paris I-Sorbonne, Paris, France, a master in information and library science from The Catholic University, Washington, DC, and a JD degree from School of Law at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Nada is an assistant city attorney in Norfolk, Virginia. The Kawwasses have two children: Jennifer Fay, who graduated from Davidson College, North Carolina, School of Medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and is interning at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta; and Oliver Alan, who graduated from Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Virginia, and Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Oliver is a Strategic Business Analyst with AScript.
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