About 1821Health

Our Mission:

Building Leadership Capabilities

Our Vision:

Inspiring dramatic improvements in health care by empowering the workforce as our most treasured asset

Rusty Holman, MD – Founder

With a background in psychology and religious studies, Rusty is a lifelong student of the nature of people – how beliefs, behaviors and human needs all work together in organizations and impact people’s personal experiences. His passion for developing leaders and proven expertise in shaping organization culture defines some of his most crucial achievements over more than 25 years as a physician executive, author and speaker. His leadership has been integral to three health system mergers and ownership changes involving academic, non-profit, venture capital, private equity and publicly traded entities. He is a Past-President of the Society of Hospital Medicine, a founder of the SHM Leadership Academies, a Master in Hospital Medicine, a Nashville Health Care Council Fellow and was voted a Top 50 Physician Executive for Modern Healthcare. Most recently, as Chief Medical Officer of LifePoint Health, Rusty created a national quality program recognized by the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award.
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Our Commitments

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Supporting individuals, groups and organizations
We are able to scale with you as you grow, diversify and change. 1821Health is a devoted partner in the evolution of your career, your team, or your company.
Creating future content and programs that are member driven
The pressures, challenges, complexities and demands of health care continue to intensify. Those closest to the work must tell us what’s most important.
Cultivating a learning organization
What would it look like if we advanced the learning and application of leadership skills through collaboration?
Harnessing the power of inclusivity
Inclusion is the practice of ensuring that people feel a sense of belonging and support from an organization.
Using the sciences of learning, psychology, business and anthropology
1821Health draws from these bodies of knowledge to develop content and methods for our leadership offerings.
Supporting individuals, groups and organizations
We are able to scale with you as you grow, diversify and change. 1821Health is a devoted partner in the evolution of your career, your team, or your company.
The methods and services we provide are equally applicable to a single learner as they are to a single department as they are to a 100,000 employee health system. We are able to scale with you as you grow, diversify and expand your reach. In fact, 1821Health is a devoted partner as you manage culture, relationships, change, crises and uncertainty that come with the evolution of your career, your team, or your company.
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Creating future content and programs that are member driven
The pressures, challenges, complexities and demands of health care continue to intensify. Those closest to the work must tell us what’s most important.
These challenges are evolving with the changing landscape of policy, populations, culture, technology and a pandemic. Leadership must remain fluid to prepare for a dynamic environment. That’s why our training and services are shaped by a data-driven process derived from our members doing the work, not from someone in an ivory tower. And our relentless focus on practicality makes 1821Health leadership development eminently approachable, and always applicable.
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Cultivating a learning organization
What would it look like if we advanced the learning and application of leadership skills through collaboration?
Many organizations compete on the basis of operations, innovation, price, services, and even quality. What about competing on leadership? Or better yet, what would it look like if we advanced the learning and application of leadership skills through collaboration? 1821Health serves as a learning organization by facilitating a “living laboratory” of a voluntary network of its members. We believe one of the most powerful, practical means to develop leadership capabilities is found when we courageously collaborate – working together to challenge the status quo, share experiences and generate new ways to build and apply leadership behaviors. Through continuous learning, 1821Health itself also evolves, becoming “smarter” to more effectively support you over time.
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Harnessing the power of inclusivity
Inclusion is the practice of ensuring that people feel a sense of belonging and support from an organization.
Inclusive cultures make people feel respected for who they are, and valued as being essential to the success of the organization. Evidence shows that when people feel valued, they are far more motivated to work to the best of their abilities. It’s not hard to see that an inclusive culture creates higher performing organizations. We want to help your people do their best work. 1821Health can strongly support your inclusion efforts by making leadership development an investment in everyone, not just the few.
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Using the sciences of learning, psychology, business and anthropology
1821Health draws from these bodies of knowledge to develop content and methods for our leadership offerings.
We believe that leadership development must be grounded in a multidisciplinary approach and practice the science we know. For example, traditional development programs do not follow adult learning theory because of sessions that are way too long, overly conceptual and ultimately impractical. And why include anthropology? Given that organizations are so heavily influenced by culture and social customs, we believe that leadership skills are only effective if they are developed with this discipline fully integrated with other sciences.
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