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Jose R. Sanchez: Promoting A Necessary Path Forward that improves Access to Quality Health Care for Everyone

Jose R. Sanchez is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Humboldt Park Health (HPH). A dedicated senior health care executive with more than four decades of experience in the operational, strategic, and fiscal management of multi-faceted health care systems. Under his leadership, HPH has maintained financial stability and growth throughout his tenure. Besides consistently exceeding benchmarks in quality, safety, and patient satisfaction, José successfully orchestrated the hospital’s accreditation survey six times, including its most recent survey by DNV•GL Healthcare in 2021.

About Humboldt Park Health

Founded in 1894, Humboldt Park Health is a 200-bed acute care hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The hospital provides patient-centered healthcare focused on quality of care, ranging from wellness options to everyday care to treatment for each patient’s most critical needs.

Humboldt Park Health achieved Primary Stroke Certification from the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) and is recognized as a Patient Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The hospital and its workforce pride themselves on providing excellent medical care for their patients, their families, and surrounding communities with thoughtfulness and respect.

Partnering with a Team of Excellent Physicians

Humboldt Park Health has an extensive and talented medical staff, featuring specialists in family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, general surgery, neurology, behavioral health, emergency medicine, podiatry, gastroenterology, internal medicine, and ophthalmology. This team of experienced medical providers offers specialized services to its community, alleviating the challenges of traveling long distances to receive quality medical care.

A Reaffirmation of Its Commitment

In January 2021, the hospital completed a major re-branding initiative, renaming the hospital, HUMBOLDT PARK HEALTH to reflect the diverse and inclusive community it serves along with the tagline, “Advancing Health Equity” to emphasize the hospital’s renewed commitment to ensuring all members of the community have fair and just opportunities to be as healthy as possible, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or zip code.

In June 2020, a $7M renovation of the hospital was completed, which offers patients, visitors, and employees a more vibrant and welcoming experience. In 2021, a multimillion-dollar new MRI Suite, and Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic was launched, offering patients an innovative and quality healthcare experience. A new multimillion- dollar Electronic Health Record system upgrade, Meditech Expanse, was also initiated and is scheduled to go live in December 2022.

A Representation of Strong Leadership

José’s powerful leadership has ensured that the hospital’s pandemic response remains strong to this day. it continues pushing forward with extreme vigilance in fighting COVID-19 and is proudly saving lives across the community. HPH continually strives to achieve healthy outcomes so that every human being has an equal opportunity to lead a happy and healthy lifestyle.

Hospital Philisophy and Credo

RESPECT – HPH, its leaders, employees, and medical staff demonstrates RESPECT by supporting all our members of our health care team, so they can focus on patients.

EMPATHY – HPH, its leaders, employees, and medical staff show EMPATHY by acknowledging our patients, their families, and/or colleagues’ pain and what they have been through.

EXCELLENCE – HPH, its leaders, employees, and medical staff believe that providing EXCELLENCE in Quality of Care necessitates that it is free from harm, minimizes redundancy and waste, allows for timely access to needed services, follows best practices, and incorporates our patients’ preferences and treatment priorities.

INTEGRITY – HPH, its leaders, employees, and medical staff exemplify INTEGRITY by being honest – telling the truth, being open, and not taking advantage of others.

INCLUSIVITY – HPH, its leaders, employees, and medical staff embrace INCLUSIVITY – It is the behaviors that make people feel welcome. We motivate our entire workforce to achieve our goals.

EQUITY – HPH, its leaders, employees, and medical staff promote health EQUITY as a priority for all.

Personal Achievements and Milestones

In 2002, José was conferred an Honorary Doctorate from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine in recognition of his immeasurable accomplishments and steadfast commitment to improving the health care outcomes for some of the poorest and most disadvantaged populations in New York City.

In 2019, was conferred his second Honorary Doctorate from St. George’s University School of Medicine for his contributions to medicine, education, and public health. He also proudly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the City College of New York and a Master of Social Work from Adelphi University.

He is a Member of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association Board of Trustees and IHA Executive Committee; Co-chair of the IHA Committee on Health Disparities; Chair of the West Side Health Equity Collaborative; Member of the City Club of Chicago Board of Governors and Boricua College Board of Trustees.

Staying Rooted in the Community

As a community-based hospital, Humboldt Park Health reinvests back into the community through programs to serve the poor and uninsured, manage chronic conditions like diabetes, health education, and promote initiatives, and outreach for the elderly. The hospital works hard every day to be a place of healing, caring, and connection for patients and families in the community called home.

Mission and Vision Statement

As a leader, José’s favorite quote is “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

He believes in the power of innovation and utilizes it in building a significant and strong foundation. Here are the remarkable vision and mission statements of Humboldt Park Health.

MISSION: Humboldt Park Health is committed to advancing health equity and providing high-quality and compassionate health care services by partnering with patients and their families, our employees, medical staff, and the communities we serve.

VISION: Humboldt Park Health is the healthcare provider of choice for our communities and caregivers. We strive to be best in class for clinical care, service excellence, and employee engagement by following our guiding principle, “Equity Begins at Home.”

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An Accomplished Future

In 2022, HPH secured over $20 million in public funding for the development of a new Wellness Center in the Humboldt Park community to address health inequities by offering concrete solutions to meet community needs. This new center will serve as a place to improve the health of community members by extending the hospital’s continuum of care. A celebratory ground-breaking ceremony will be scheduled later this year. Upon completion, this will be the only Wellness Center for the residents of Humboldt Park located in the community.

Prof. Dr. Milan Krajnc: Making a Planet a Better Place to Live

Prof. Dr. Milan Krajnc has been working as a psychotherapist and researcher of the human mind for the last two decades. He is an expert in solving the challenges that often arise from the interaction of different personalities within an organization. Prof. Krajnc is trained for personal advising, psychology, negotiation, lobbying, and marketing at organizations of any size and scope from the local to international level. Prof. Krajnc is an expert on state psychology and local authorities.

While on his work Prof. Krajnc has found that most behaviour comes from childhood which means that we make different decisions in everyday life, mainly because of resentment, anger, complexes that arise from that period.

Maximizing the Potential of an Organization

Prof. Krajnc forms a very new, modern, and fairer economy, which eventually takes into account the potential of the working individual and seeks ways to maximize the potential of the organization, that too, without coercion, without creating violence against the individual.

Krajnc is a psychotherapist and an educator, specializing in leaders, who help form a vicious cycle, where they have entered. His journey began by observing a natural phenomenon in the laboratory, where he first observed as a student of metallurgy and later as a physics student. Here he witnessed, how regardless of the phenomenon, seven identical successive phases always occur.

A Well Known Author

Prof. Krajnc faced many challenges during his journey. However, no one could take away his motivation. He gained massive experience while running for the President of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia. He started developing various psychological tools, to overcome various psychological patterns. He has also published around 400 books where he talks about relationships and how can people help each other. Prof. Krajnc soon saw his messages in the books positively influencing people to be more confident, more respectful of themselves and their time. In order to achieve greater results with his messages, Prof. Krajnc founded a music group named Monte Cristo, which set his lyrics to music and now spreads his songs in musical form.

Professor Krajnc realized that he needs more ways to communicate with people in order to achieve the greater success of his work. According to Prof. Krajnc, people are now more relaxed, they don’t pay attention to other opinions, thus becoming independent.

Also with the Al-Khalifa Business School, he founded Milan Krajnc AKBS Innovation Venture Lab, where he started developing products for all the five human ‘sensors.’

He is also vastly experienced in various fields, he was a member of the Official Minister and President council in Serbia. He also has collaborated with the police and the army in the education field. Prof. Krajnc was a member of other various State committees in the Republic of Slovenia and Serbia. He is a lecturer and an author of the research and scientific works in the field of Psychology Management.

Developing the Purest Food

Therefore, the next step is his research and creating solutions to human psychological congestion, creating a taste therapy.

The first condition for its creation was that the food was clean, which means that the people who grow this food also had to be psychologically clean.

So food had to be produced by the agricultural method of Biodynamics, and people had to live by the psychological method of Sirius Personal Transformation. Only then does the taste follow. So Prof. Kranjc literally explored and tasted the whole world, and he found space and food in the most magical territory in the Adriatic Sea.

The territory is now called ISTRIA, which was a part of Itlay. The area is still famous for lip-smacking food, and here Prof, Krajnc made the project ISTRA.SHOP, where he chose Truffles as the basic product. Truffle has a very specific and healing taste. That is why prof. Krajnc began to create dishes that have an incredible taste and are also healing for human psychological health.

Prof. Krajnc has developed a whole series of wine, oil, and food. His foods are mostly enjoyed by people who influence the example of their surroundings with their image. However, this is not any kind of miracle cure or superfood, but it is the purest food in the world and prepared according to the science of Dynamilogy.

Prof. Krajnc is also the founder of new scientific science, named Dynamilogy, which can create successes in every field, with the help of nature’s formulas.

He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics. However, he doesn’t grow the food himself, rather he has a huge circle of supporters. The best part is products that are completely useful and clean for overcoming emotional problems receive a certificate that confirms their quality.

With all these revolutionary approaches Prof. Krajnc is trying to change the system. According to him, organizations and businesses are a part of the global economic system, so his approach is changing the economy of our planet. Although economics has never been a primary area of his research, the path has led him towards it, which meant discovering its darkest sides for the sake of ‘higher goals.’

Company name: MIlan Krajnc
Management: Prof. Dr. Milan Krajnc
URL: www.MilanKrajnc.com

Antonis Gavrielides: Far-Sighted Business Leader Antonis Gavrielides is Successfully Spearheading the Eurofast International Ltd

With over 15 years of extensive experience in leadership and management, Antonis Gavrielides is the Deputy CEO of Eurofast International Ltd. He has demonstrated leadership strengths and a proven ability to manage multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced environment with critical deadlines. Mr Gavrielides has been working at Eurofast for the past 11 years, initially as the Group Internal Auditor from the Cyprus office (HQ), subsequently as the Country Manager and currently as Director responsible for the General management of the office in Greece and the Payroll and Employment Division for the whole Group.

Antonis Gavrielides is highly motivated and fully committed with strong project management and analytical skills. He is well-organised and works well independently as well as collaboratively in a team spirit. He is also well-versed in strategy and has a proven ability to implement practical and innovative solutions to problems.

Eurofast International: Creating Historical Presence in the Global Market

Eurofast International Ltd is a Regional Business Advisory Organisation employing local adviser’s in 23 cities in the emerging markets of South-East Europe & the Middle East (SEEME). The team of advisors is capable of efficiently addressing all client needs in one single meeting, using one single language for all the countries in the region. Eurofast’s main services are 1) Tax & Transfer Pricing, 2) Payroll & Employment, 3) Accounting & Compliance, and 4) Advisory & Corporate.

The clientele includes multinational companies and organizations which are very demanding. To ensure the unbreakable faith of their clients the team always tries to be one step ahead of them. They identify the problem, and they implement innovative instant solutions. What’s essential for them is the client to realize that they do not see him as a temporary source of money, but they aim to create a bond that will last in time.

Eurofast has over 42 years of historical presence in the global market, counting numerous awards and accolades. Most recently, for 2021, the awards “Top 10 Payroll Provider of the Year” by CioLook and “Transfer Pricing Advisory Firm in South Europe” by Corporate INTL Magazine, were received.

Shortly, Eurofast is planning to enter a new era, combining the experience of the past with the expertise of the present to create a more challenging and innovative approach. During the pandemic, the Eurofast team faced many challenges, which they have proudly overcome. New ways to communicate the services and approaching the clients were invented. The future holds plan on expanding the Group portfolio using new technologies and growing their professional family with new talents in new jurisdictions.

The Inspiration behind the Initiation

In the early stages of his career, Antonis Gavrielides said he did not have a precise idea of what he wanted to do professionally. The most important for him was to educate himself because he truly believes that any type of knowledge gives you the chance to develop yourself.

Following the bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Mr. Gavrielides was not afraid to take the risk and he started to work hard in his field. He realized that for him work is like a project. He wants to create something and after the finalization and the assurance that everything is working well, he seeks for a new challenge, a new project which will give him the opportunity to learn something new and advance himself and his skills.

Hiccups on the Way

The primary challenges that Antonis Gavrielides and his team had when the company grew were not to be disoriented from their vision and to choose colleagues who can understand it and are able to suggest ways to progress towards the primary goal it. Another ongoing challenge is to maintain the high quality of services they provide in different countries, cultures, and mentalities as Eurofast is a multinational organisation and they aim hard to be the top choice of their clients and the number one Cypriot company.

From the Deputy CEO’s Desk

“All of us who want to see this industry evolving must be supporters of a fair play competition. Furthermore, we must lead our employees, appreciate their skills and efforts, and promote equality for everyone. In addition, cooperation between companies and why not even between competitors could create a new more balanced industry”, asserted Antonis Gavrielides when asked about his views contributing to a more balanced & equal industry.

He further said, “My parents always encouraged me and supported me to make my own decisions by relying on my own strength, and allowed me to fulfil my dreams. My career mentors and especially Mr. Christodoulos Damianou, owner of Eurofast Group, gave me the opportunity to grow and develop my skills as he trusted my ideas since day one and gave me the honour to evolve and contribute to the development of a such an outstanding organisation. Last but not least, I believe in the power of luck and the good timing that followed me during my professional years and worked as a support system for my success.”

A Day in Antonis’s Life

Antonis’s day begins at 08:00 a.m. in the morning. Preparation of the daily routine and at 08:30 a.m. in the office. Meetings, calls, teleconferences, urgent matters, brainstorming, and discussion with colleagues till 05:30 p.m. After work, he gets to have some time for himself. He usually spends time at the gym, which works as stress-relieving. Antonis Gavrielides enjoys cooking for friends and shares a laugh along with a good glass of wine. The night routine always includes preparation for the next day and some good night’s sleep.

Favourite Book

Since Antonis Gavrielides is a food lover, he enjoys reading cooking books or stories of people whose occupation is cooking. A book that he recently read and really inspired him was ‘Kitchen Confidential’ by Antony Bourdain. He is fascinated by the combination of products that appear unmatched and turn out to be amazing results. He believes the same applies for the industry since it requires everyone to combine and adjust to different cultures, different people, and different legislations so as to achieve a positive outcome.

Favourite Quote

“Our Aspirations are our Possibilities” by Victorian English poet Robert Browning. It truly reflects my belief that high expectations always precede high achievement and when you want something a lot, aim for hard work and life will reward you openly.