Opinion: Let’s make patient access to health care a priority
The former Methodist CEO on the rift with BlueCross BlueShield
Meri Armour, president and CEO of Le Bonheur, and Gary Shorb, CEO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, help Le Bonheur patients untie the giant bow to open the new Le Bonheur Children's Hospital building in 2018. (Courtesy Le Bonheur Children's Hospital)
Gary Shorb
Gary Shorb is the Executive Director of The Urban Child Institute and the former CEO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
“When teachers, sanitation workers and municipal employees must take time off work to drive across the state to receive care for sick children, we will all feel the consequences.”
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