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I N T E R V I E W Interview With Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, CEO of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center D elvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, is CEO of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Harbor-UCLA is one of only ﬁve Level I trauma centers in Los Angeles County, and its 300 full-time faculty hold academic appointments at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Geffen School of Medicine. Approximately 500 residents and fellows are completing their graduate medical education at the facility, and it serves as a major training site for medical students from UCLA and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute is also housed at Harbor-UCLA. Mr. Finley started his professional career with the San Francisco Department of Public Health in 2003. He then joined the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as an administrator in its hematology and oncology division and, soon after, added to his responsibilities the management of the university's occupational and environmental medicine division. In 2005, Mr. Finley became administrative director of the organtization's HIV/AIDS division, and in 2006, he was named associate administrator at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. In 2010, he became vice president of operations, support, and professional services at California Paciﬁc Medical Center in San Francisco, and in 2011, he was named CEO of HarborUCLA Medical Center. A member of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems board of directors and the Hospital Association of Southern California, Mr. Finley is also active in Health Care Executives of Southern California, his local ACHE chapter, for which he served as secretary in 2013. From 2007 to 2008, he was president of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders. He is a recipient of the ACHE Service Award, the ACHE Distinguished Service Award, and the Regent's Award. In 2014, he received ACHE's Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year, which recognizes early careerists for outstanding achievements in the ﬁeld of healthcare management. Mr. Finley earned an undergraduate degree from Emory University and a master's degree in public policy from Duke University. Dr. O'Connor: Congratulations on winning the Hudgens Award! Within several years of beginning your career in healthcare management, you became director of the well-known HIV/AIDS division at UCSF. Comment on your rapid rise as an early careerist and how prepared you felt for that responsibility. When you transitioned from UCSF to assume the post of associate administrator of San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, what prompted you to see this as a stepping stone for advancing your career? 310

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Journal of Healthcare Management - September/October 2014

Journal of Healthcare Management - September/October 2014
Interview With Delvecchio S. Finley, FACHE, CEO of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Hospital Consolidation: “Safety in Numbers” Strategy Prevails in Preparation for a Value- Based Marketplace
Leveraging Women’s Leadership Talent in Healthcare
Pressure and Performance: Buffering Capacity and the Cyclical Impact of Accreditation Inspections on Risk-Adjusted Mortality
Development and Field Testing of a Self- Assessment Guide for Computer-Based Provider Order Entry
Good to Great: Using 360-Degree Feedback to Improve Physician Emotional Intelligence
Career Inflection Points of Women Who Successfully Achieved the Hospital CEO Position

Journal of Healthcare Management - September/October 2014