By Patric Hedlund, TME

Clinica Sierra Vista’s new chief executive officer sat down for an interview during his visit to the Lebec facility June 14. He was borrowing a small office for the meeting.

Inscrutable

The calendar behind the desk where Brian Harris sat featured a kitten. The small face over the new CEO’s shoulder was inscrutable, intent, part evaluating, part apprehensive — almost a mirror image of Harris’ own expression that June morning.

Among reporters in North Carolina (where he was CEO of the 13-facility North Carolina Rural Health Group for 13 years), Harris is said to be uncomfortable talking to the press. He appears to be a man of few smiles, impatient with personal questions. Asked about his educational background, he waves his hand as if shooing away a pesky gnat: “I’ll send you my CV,” he says. His CV shows him to be ambitious and a hard worker.

Harris graduated from Southern Oregon University in Management Accounting in year 2000, taking Oregon’s Klamath Health Partnership, Inc. into three-fold growth in six years while also finishing his degree. He went on to UNC at Chapel Hill for a Masters in Healthcare Administration.

Wants To Meet the Public

Harris was quick to graciously accept a personal invitation to meet the people being served by Clinica’s Frazier Mountain Community Health Center in Lebec.

He will be an important part of the Mountain Community Health Care Town Hall on Thursday, July 26, at 7 p.m. at the Frazier Park Library.

Harris and Dr. Brent Burket, M.D. will answer the public’s questions about the direction in which the primary healthcare facility in this region is heading…. [This is the introduction to a longer article available on newsstands now in The Mountain Enterprise]

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Brian Harris, new CEO for Clinica Sierra Vista, will meet the public July 26, 7 p.m. in a Town Hall on Mountain Community Health Care at the Frazier Park Library.

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