Interim Executive Leadership

The health care industry is currently facing some of its most difficult challenges ever. The cost of care is unsustainable, we face severe staffing shortages, inequities in care and lagging outcomes; we are far down the ranks of developing countries. Crane’s years of experience in financial, strategy and operational leadership roles make him uniquely qualified to serve health care organizations in an interim role to both stabilize and advance initiatives that counter these significant issues.

Crane is able to embrace the existing culture of an organization to deliver on the outcomes desired while in this role. Crane brings a metric focus to results and improvement, offering several lean management tools and processes where appropriate.

Serving in these roles for acute care hospitals he has led strategic planning, budget (operations and capital), long range financial planning delivering strong financial performance and facilitating the growth of each organization served. He has led many operational improvement initiatives and revenue cycle optimization efforts. Crane believes in a healthy and balanced capital structure with appropriate investment objectives attached to cash reserves. He also believes strongly in the collection practices that do not pray on the underserved or force people into bankruptcy and homelessness.

In the early 2000’s he was one of the first in Oregon to amend a collection policy to protect primary residences of patients with medical debt. It was excluded from calculations of ability to pay. The organization also increased their sliding scale of charity up to 400% of the federal poverty guideline.