JASON BARRETT
PRESIDENT & CEO, FLAGLER HEALTH+, ST. AUGUSTINE
Flagler, historically known as a community hospital with a 130-year history of serving Northeast Florida, is the oldest self-governing health system in the state. Barrett runs the system’s hospital and medical facilities and has led the formation of a subsidiary — Flagler Health+ Care Connect — to address social determinants of health throughout all of St. Johns County. Barrett says the system transforms what was once a hospital stay into a 365-day-a-year relationship. He has been an executive at Flagler for 18 years.
| EDUCATION | Texas Tech University (MS), University of North Florida (MBA) |
| PROFESSIONAL EVOLUTION | I have learned that the value of the relationship supersedes short-term initiatives. There is deep value in authenticity. |
| WORRIES ABOUT | The commoditization of health care and the shifting focus away from community-based care |
| SABBATICAL TOPIC | The opportunity to deeply study and view the battlefields of WWI |
| READING | The Churchill Complex, by Ian Buruma |