Dr. Laura Forese, COO, New York Presbyterian: "People were scared. And it was on me and the rest of the leadership team to say 'We’re going to be here with you.'"

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Welcome to our Women’s History Month series on Skimm’d from the Couch - where we’re bringing you the women who made history this past year. Meet: Dr. Laura Forese. Dr. Forese is the COO of New York Presbyterian, one of the largest not-for-profit hospital networks in the country. And one that’s been instrumental in caring for COVID-19 patients. Also under her leadership, the hospital rolled out a comprehensive paid parental leave plan that includes extended leave for up to six months and continued benefits coverage. Oh, and we forgot to mention that she’s an orthopedic surgeon. In this episode, Dr. Forese shares how she asked for maternity leave during her residency, why she transitioned into management, and how she communicated with her team during the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Our team ran through walls. They just did. And every day people came back, even with
0:15.7	so much uncertainty and people were scared. And it was on me and the rest of the leadership
0:24.0	team to say, we're going to be here with you. We're going to tell you what we know. We'll
0:29.4	be back tomorrow to tell you what has changed. And whatever happens, we're going to be here together.
0:40.0	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch. This podcast is where we go
0:45.0	deep on career advice from women who have lived it from the good stuff like hiring and growing a
0:49.4	team to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:55.5	We started the Skim from a couch. So what better place to talk at all out than where it began on a couch.
1:07.6	Welcome to our Women's History Month series on Skim from the couch, where we're telling you
1:11.9	about the women who made history this past year. Dr. Laura Horis joins us on today's episode.
1:18.6	She's the chief operating officer of New York Presbyterian, one of the largest non-profit
1:24.7	hospitals in the country. Under her leadership, New York Presbyterian has been on the front lines
1:30.1	fighting the COVID-19 pandemic since last year. Dr. Horis, thank you so much for joining us and
1:36.4	welcome to Skim from the couch. Thank you so much. It's great to be with you. Your resume is very
1:41.5	long as I think doctors and chief operating officers tend to be what's one job or one experience
1:50.0	you've had that means the most to you. I started wanting to be a doctor from the time I was a
1:55.3	little girl. So it really is about caring for patients. But I really have shifted after I was in
2:02.6	practice for about 10 years. I'm an orthopedic surgeon and I moved to become a full-time hospital
2:08.0	executive because I thought I'd be able to have more impact. And so now as the chief operating
2:13.7	officer of a big hospital system, my job is really to make sure that the business runs so that our
2:19.5	doctors, our nurses have everything that they need to do what they do best which is care for our
2:24.5	patients. So I think some ways come full circle from where I thought I was going to be when I was
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