
Josh Luke
Aging / Seniors / Retirement, Health / Policy, Health & Healthcare, Healthcare Future, Healthcare Management, Motivation & Inspiration
Travels from California, USA
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Josh Luke Profile
A healthcare visionary, Dr. Josh Luke prepares providers and patients for policy, management and technology changes in the healthcare sector. Dr. Luke is a former nursing home administrator, hospital CEO, and author of the #1 best selling book Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all on what’s wrong with American healthcare.
Dr. Luke is a professor at USC and designed the school’s graduate health policy post acute curriculum. Bringing over 15 years of insider experience to the table, Dr. Luke is one of the most sought-after hospital consultants in the country, known for his “discharge-home” mentality to care. A specialist on value-based initiatives, he established the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative in 2013 and the National Bundled Payment Collaborative in 2015 to demonstrate and spread best-practice integration models.
Dr. Luke started his career in sports marketing management, during which he represented baseball great, Mark McGwire. After a series of accidents put his grandmother through a series of hospitalizations and nursing homes, he became concerned about the state of healthcare and made a career change. He entered the Administrator in Training Program of Life Care Centers of America, which required him to do a practicum in every department of a healthcare facility from washing dishes to doing laundry to caring for patients as a CNA. Throughout his two years of training and numerous years of service, Dr. Luke developed a deep understanding of every aspect of operation, including common pitfalls and achievable solutions.
At age 32, Dr. Luke become CEO of Western Medical Center Anaheim and later served as CEO of Anaheim General
Hospital and Interim CEO of Memorial Hospital Of Gardena. He designed the award-winning management program while he was Vice President of Post-Acute Services for Torrance Memorial Health System. Currently, he is the Chief Strategy Officer and a senior health policy consultant for Nelson Hardiman Law & Compliagent and serves on the board of directors for Alzheimer’s Orange County.
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Dr. Josh Luke, FACHE
- Adjunct Faculty, University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy Founder, National Readmission Prevention Collaborative & National Bundled Payment Collaborative
- Author: Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all about what’s wrong with American healthcare
- Author: Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across the Provider Continuum
- Chief Strategy Officer, Compliagent/Nelson Hardiman Healthcare LawDr. Josh Luke, The Voice of American Healthcare, is a best-selling author, hospital CEO, healthcare futurist, thought-leader and international motivational speaker. He is an experienced hospital CEO, health system Vice President and nursing home administrator. He is regarded as a “futurist” on the Affordable Care Act and how it will shape the continuum of care and has been described as an innovator and a forward-thinking strategist on teaching ACO’s, Bundles, acute hospitals and post-acute leaders how to position themselves for revenue growth in a post-ACA model. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Nelson Hardiman Healthcare Law and its subsidiary consulting firm, Compliagent.
Having uniquely held executive positions in both acute and post-acute settings, Dr. Luke was selected to author the book Readmission Prevention: Solutions Across the Provider Continuum published by the American College of Healthcare Executives, the best-selling book from Health Administration Press in 2015. In 2016, Xlibris publishing released Luke’s first book written for the mainstream public, Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all on what’s wrong with American healthcare, What every American needs to know. In 2016 Luke conducted an international book promotion tour.
In 2013, Luke was named Vice President of Post Acute Services for Torrance Memorial Health System. In that role he designed a population management strategy (Total Wellness Torrance), working with the ACO, Bundled Payment & IPA teams. TWT and its Post Acute Network received the 2013 Excellence in Programming award from CAHF.
His broad range of prior experience with some of the leading companies in healthcare, positioned him well to be an expert on readmission prevention and care coordination. He served as the CEO of multiple acute hospitals in California, as CEO of HealthSouth Las Vegas (acute rehab hospital), Administrator in the Skilled Nursing Division of Kindred, and had direct oversight of home health and hospice services in his role as health system Vice president.
Dr. Luke founded the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative in October 2013 (nationalreadmissionprevention.com) to showcase Best Practice integration models and the National Bundled Payment Collaborative in 2015.
Dr. Luke serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy and formerly at California State University, Long Beach in the Healthcare Administration Department. He previously instructed at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Luke has a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, served as a Lean Mentor and Project Chair, is a Fellow with ACHE and is past Chair for the Cal Optima Provider Advisory Committee.
Recent and past board appointments include The California Hospital Association Center for Post Acute Board of Directors, Alzheimer’s Orange County, the Hospital Association of Southern California, Healthcare Executives of Southern California, CSULB Healthcare Administration Advisory Board and Hospice Care of
California. He is also a licensed SNF & RCFE Administrator and preceptor.
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