Transformative Healthcare
AdventHealth Press
From the year 2000 to 2013, Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman engaged in the type of patient-first care that only a handful of doctors will ever experience. His patients: Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Politics had nothing to do with Kuhlman’s work. Neither did agendas or budgets or quotas or standard processes. Among his duties? Never be more than two minutes away from the President. It required Kuhlman to know the personal habits and medical histories of each President. He had to be prepared to care for any medical need in any situation. The experience began to shape Kuhlman’s view of what healthcare should be like for patients who don’t live in The White House or travel on Air Force One. In other words, the patients we see every day. After coming to Advent Health as Senior Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Kuhlman used an overarching question to guide his quest to transform healthcare in a meaningful way: What if everyone in healthcare (doctors, admin