Newtown Quakers to Hear Healthcare Governance Expert just Back from Nepal

Healthcare Governance Expert Bob LeFever to Speak to Newtown Quakers

Bob
LeFever is a member of Newtown Quaker Meeting and a nationally recognized
expert on the governance of health care. He will speak on “The Obligation to be
Civically Informed--How One Man Became an Accidental Expert in Healthcare
Governance” at the Newtown Friends Meeting (www.newtownfriendsmeeting.org) on
Sunday, February 23 at 9:45 a.m. The

public is invited.

LeFever
recently returned from a one month trip to Nepal to see at first hand their healthcare system. He has spent
thirty five years in healthcare governance in the US and will talk about how
during that time the changes in how hospitals get paid for their services has
very significantly altered how healthcare is delivered. He will also discuss
how the quality of healthcare has been and is being improved at times, despite
resistance from hospitals and doctors, and how those changes have increased the
demands on those involved in healthcare governance to be much more knowledgeable.

Bob LeFever serves on the board of Temple University Health System and

chairs its governance, nominating, and conflict of interest committee. He is

the chairman of Jeanes Hospital Board of Directors and the vice chairman of

Temple Physicians, Inc., a community-based primary care physician organization.
He also is a member of the American
Oncologic Hospital (aka Fox Chase Cancer Center). He chairs the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, a supporting
organization for Jeanes Hospital. He has served on the American Hospital Association
Committee on Governance and currently serves on the Children's Oncology Group (COG)
Leadership Development Committee.

LeFever is the former chair of Volunteer Trustees, a national healthcare

trustee organization. He is the treasurer of Baby Friendly USA, an organization
that grants the WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative award in the United States.

Following a thirty-year career as a management consultant to small and

mid-sized advertising agencies, LeFever was for eight years the part-time

development director for Mercer Street Friends, a social welfare agency in Trenton, NJ.
He served for many years on the governing board and as treasurer of Newtown Friends School. 

He earned an undergraduate degree at Princeton
University and is a graduate of the Financial Management Program of
the General Electric Company.

Newtown Friends Meeting co-founded by "Peaceable
Kingdom" painter and Quaker minister, Edward Hicks, in 1815,
is open to all who wish to attend. Regular First Day Education classes (Sunday
School) for all ages begin at 9:45 a.m. and
Meeting for Worship begins at 11 a.m.
Childcare is provided.