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Year Joined: Fall 2006
Term Expires: 2010
Committee Assignments:
Company: Poudre Valley Health System
Title: President and CEO
Work Experience:
- Poudre Valley Health System
- Poudre Valley Health System
- US Air Force
Education:
- PHD, 1997, UNIV OF CO AT DENVER
- MHA, Health Adminstration, 1986, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
- BS, Economics, 1984, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
Expertise:
- CEO
- Executive
- Health Care Administrator
- Health Care-Administrator
- Health Services & Supply
- Health Services And Supplies
Biography:
Rulon F. Stacey, PhD, came to the Poudre Valley Health System (PVHS) in 1996. Since then, he has transformed Poudre Valley Health System from a single facility (Poudre Valley Hospital) into a system with several dozen facilities providing services in three states.
During his time in Fort Collins, Colorado, Dr. Stacey has led the industry in finding ways to align incentives with physicians and form collaborative partnerships. Over the course of his tenure, he has created eighteen separate joint ventures between physicians and the Poudre Valley Health System. These joint ventures have allowed the health system and physicians to set the industry standard on how to work with physicians to improve quality. All the while the Poudre Valley Health System has nearly quadrupled the net revenue and net assets of the health system, receiving two consecutive upgrades from Moody’s Investment Service in 2008 and 2009, the only organization in the industry to be so distinguished.
For these innovations, Dr. Stacey received the 1999 Robert S. Hudgens Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) as the “Young Healthcare Executive of the Year.” ACHE is the leading professional organization of health care executives worldwide, supporting more than 35,000 members in more than thirty countries. In 1992 Dr. Stacey was recognized as an “up and comer” by Modern Healthcare magazine, designating him as one of the twelve young “rising stars” of the health-care administration profession in the country. In 2000 the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver named Dr. Stacey a Milstein Scholar for having written that year’s best dissertation.
Dr. Stacey has also excelled in providing leadership in his local community. Some of his distinctions and leadership positions have included: being named as Northern Colorado’s Business Leader of the Year by the Fort Collins Coloradoan in 2005 and being named as the Northern Colorado Entrepreneur of the Year by The Northern Colorado Business Report in 2006. In 2007 he and his wife, Linda, were selected as recipients of the MS Society’s Northern Colorado Hope Award, signifying the couple who had provided the most significant contributions to community service that year. Additionally, Dr. Stacey has served on the Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, as president of the Colorado State University Athletic Booster Club, on the Board of Directors of The Colorado Hospital Association, and as the only administrator in the country to serve on The American Hospital Association’s 2006 Committee on Governance.
In 2004 Dr. Stacey was elected by his peers in Colorado to serve a three-year term as the regent of ACHE in Colorado, one of just approximately 100 such leaders worldwide. Then in early 2007, Dr. Stacey was elected to serve on the twelve-member governing board of the ACHE. On 20 March 2010 Dr. Stacey will be confirmed as that organization’s seventy-sixth chair-elect of ACHE’s Governing Board. In November 2008 the president of the United States announced that the Poudre Valley Health System was one of only three organizations, and the only health care organization in the country, to receive that year’s prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. On 2 December 2009 Vice President Joseph Biden presented the award to Dr. Stacey.
For his leadership and recognition, Dr. Stacey has been highly sought after for speaking engagements. During the past two years Dr. Stacey has been invited to give lectures in forty-two states and in other locations around the world on the successes that lead up to the receipt of the award. In October 2008 Dr. Stacey led a team to Jerusalem, Israel, and initiated the world’s first international patient safety collaborative, which is specifically designed to engage U.S., Arab, Israeli, and Palestinian patient safety experts with the ultimate goal of increasing understanding between all the countries involved. Dr. Stacey will be in Jerusalem again in June 2010 for the second meeting of this group.
In March 2009 Dr. Stacey was the official guest of the crown prince of Abu Dhabi at the country’s Performance Excellence Program for Government and Tourist Sector Improvement. In December 2009 Dr. Stacey was the guest of five different hospitals in England, including The Cambridge University Hospital, as the English hospitals explored the successes and improvements within the Poudre Valley Health System. Finally, Dr. Stacey is scheduled to give a keynote address at that Asia Pacific Healthcare Conference to be held in July in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A native of Provo, Dr. Stacey holds a bachelor of science in economics and a master’s degree in health administration from The Romney Institute of Management at Brigham Young University and a doctor of philosophy in public administration from the University of Colorado. He and Linda are the proud parents of four daughters—Laura, Maria, Jennifer, and Catherine—and two grandchildren, Braden and Adelyn.
Networking Interests:
Colorado State University, Presidents Community Relations Council; President, Greater Ram's Club, Colorado State University; Fort Collins Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors; MS Society Dinner of Champions Chair and emcee; 2006 Hope Award recipient; Inspirational Park board of directors; Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art fundraising committee; Boy Scouts of America Explorer Post advisor; LDS Bishop; American College of Healthcare Executives regent; American College of Healthcare Executives fellow; Colorado Hospital Association Board of Directors; American Hospital Association, Committee on Governance Board of Directors; Colorado Delegate, American Hospital Association, Regional Policy Board; Colorado Regent, American College of Healthcare Executives; American College of Healthcare Executives, Pedagogy Work Group
Hobbies and Interests:
Fishing, golfing, outdoor activities
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