Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, CEO, values his FQHC staff; feels for pts’ life challenges; understands what he can control & can’t; & weeps for under-realized potential.

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As a student of leadership, I relish experiencing, hearing about and from good, no great, leaders. I worked for several. Sometimes I was one. What makes a good/great leader? They strategize with their team and customers, encourage, and appreciate their staff, hire for diversity of lived experience and ways of thinking about the world, and get stuff out of the way of good people doing their good work.

Introducing Dr. Kiame Mahaniah

My friend, Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, a good/great leader is CEO of the Lynn Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) near me. Kiame and I meet monthly in a book club and often discuss health care, health care advocacy, and issues of health equity

FQHCs sit on the sharp point of health equity and community-centered care. Need a barometer of the health of our healthcare system? Check out your local FQHC. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HSRA), FQHCs are community-based and patient-directed organizations that deliver comprehensive, culturally competent, high-quality primary health care services to the nation’s most vulnerable individuals and families, including people experiencing homelessness…