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Specialists in Healthcare Recruitment

Sue Forster – Managing Partner

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Sue Forster – Managing Partner

Sue Forster – Managing Partner
Phone: 303-799-8188 x120
Email: Sue.Forster@thehealthcareinitiative.com


Providing permanent leadership talent acquisition and interim solutions for hospitals/health systems, we have a team that spans the nation and can support your leadership needs. Sue’s primary area of focus is Midwest to the East coast (Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and DC).

Expertise

Sue has impacted and helped advance the careers of over 1200 director and c-suite healthcare executives across the healthcare continuum. In addition to healthcare, her business acumen includes over 30 years of experience in healthcare, high tech, consumer products, and financial services with small, medium, large and international organizations (as a consultant and direct leader).

Sue rejoined The Healthcare Initiative in 2019 after leading the Executive Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence for a $4.8 billion health system (a CHI MBO) where she was responsible for the executive talent acquisition process for 17 hospitals, medical group, health system, and network affiliates. With over a decade of healthcare executive talent acquisition within a large system transforming the landscape of healthcare, she brings her leading-edge industry expertise and passion to deliver a proven process that can identify; attract; evaluate for skills, emotional intelligence and cultural alignment; and land the top talent clients are seeking to engage to lead the tsunami of change health system leaders face today in the world of complex, matrixed environments to build alignment, eliminate silos, increase consumer/employee engagement, reduce costs, and provide new models of care.

Certifications

SPHR, Hogan Leadership Assessments, CSAM, MBTI

Education

BS/Arizona State University

Interests

Sue became an avid college hoops fan when her daughter became a college cheerleader for a #1 nationally ranked team and fell in love with everything college basketball because it aligns with her approach to her work – the fundamentals, drills, hours of dedication, teamwork, coaching styles, discipline, passion and payoff for hard work and results. “If the slipper fits” she will share with you her favorite college team! Nothing is more edifying to Sue, than making an ideal match pleasing both clients and candidates with the dedication, passion for excellence and love of the healthcare profession to make that happen.

Values

Dignity, Respect, Integrity, Service, Innovation, Compassion

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News and Press

What Hospital CEOs Are Asking For

Systems Administrator / November 14, 2018 / Amy Jensen
Amy Jensen - Senior Partner 720-735-9740 Amy.Jensen@thehealthcareinitiative.com ...
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THI Webinar – Is Interim Leadership Right for You?

Systems Administrator / July 3, 2018 / Alison Holland, Amy Jensen, Blog, Candidates, Expertise, Health Care, Leadership, Recruitment Process
Is Interim Leadership Right for You? An Interim leader is an expert in a service line (or multiple services lines) who is brought into an organization to solve urgent leadership needs on an temporary basis. These seasoned Nursing leaders travel around the United States bringing stability, change management, and process improvement to each assignment they take on and are an invaluable addition to any hospital’s leadership team. The Webinar below will give you an introduction ...
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Case Study – How an Interim Leadership Team Solved Staffing Quality and Leadership Challenges

Systems Administrator / May 10, 2018 / Amy Jensen, Candidates, Clients, Expertise, Recruitment Process
The Healthcare Initiative was asked by a Not for Profit system-based hospital to help with providing Interim Nursing Leadership for their 200 bed Medical Center in the Pacific NW. The Hospital offers emergency services, stroke care, cardiac and vascular care, birth center, total joint replacement and spine health programs, robotic surgery, pain management services, and one of the most comprehensive rehabilitation programs. They perform 8,500+ Surgical Inpatient and Outpatient Cases annually. The Challenge Our practice ...
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