NEW YORK, May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Corbett A. Price, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Kurron Shares of America, Inc, one of the nation’s leading health care restructuring and management companies, has been named a Distinguished Trustee by The United Hospital Fund in recognition of his leadership, guidance and extraordinary service to Interfaith Medical Center.
Mr. Price has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Interfaith Medical Center since 1995 and serves on the Central Brooklyn health care system’s Executive and Finance Committees. During his tenure, the Board of Interfaith Medical Center has been responsible for the turnaround of Interfaith Medical Center from a debt-ridded, collapsing system facing imminent closure to a thriving community-based teaching health system.
Mr. Price is the founder and Chairman of Kurron, which he formed in 1990 to deliver a full range of innovative, results-oriented management and consulting services, specializing in the transformation of health care organizations through financial revitalization and program realignment. Since its founding, Kurron has been responsible for the restructuring of over $1 billion of assets.
Prior to forming Kurron, Mr. Price served in a variety of senior management positions with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) including Vice President of HCA Management Company’s Mid-Atlantic District and as Chief Executive Officer of an HCA-managed hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer at a major affiliated hospital of The Johns Hopkins Medical School.
A philanthropist and community leader, Mr. Price has given generously to his alma mater The Ohio State University (OSU) to provide scholarships and financial assistance to African-American and Hispanic-American students studying health care management; to endow a Distinguished Professorship Chair and provided seed money for the University’s Britt Kerwin Institute for Race and Ethnicity.
“We are very proud that Corbett Price is being recognized for his efforts on behalf of the people of Central Brooklyn,” said Michael S. Kaminski, Interfaith Medical Center Chief Executive Officer, adding, “His dedication and concern for this traditionally underserved community is tireless.”
About the United Hospital Fund
The United Hospital Fund is a health services research and philanthropic organization whose mission is to shape positive change in health care for the people of New York.
About Interfaith Medical Center
Interfaith Medical Center is a community-based teaching health care system consisting of a 287-bed hospital on Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant and a far-reaching 16 site ambulatory care network in the Crown Heights; Bedford-Stuyvesant; East New York; Brownville; Bushwick and Flatbush communities of Brooklyn. Each year Interfaith Medical Center serves over 250,000 patients representing every racial, ethnic and national group in Central Brooklyn with the majority of people being of Caribbean and African descent.
Interfaith Medical Center
CONTACT: Melissa M. Krantz of Krantz & Co., +1-917-653-6716,krantzandco@aol.com, for Interfaith Medical Center
