The Human Spirit in Healthcare with Strategist Trish Cassidy
Episode Summary:
This week on Love & Speak the Truth, Sr. Brenda sits down with Trish Cassidy, a seasoned healthcare strategist and administrator for a thought-provoking conversation about the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare. Trish sheds light on the industry’s most pressing challenges—rising technological demands, increasing expectations and financial pressures—and their unintended impact on the human side of care.
With heartfelt insights, Trish advocates for a return to patient-centered care, emphasizing the importance of compassion, connection and establishing a baseline of preventative care services. Don’t miss out on this powerful and inspiring discussion encompassing navigating change while staying true to the fundamental mission of healthcare: caring for people. Listen and learn!
About Trish Cassidy (click to expand)
With over 30 years of leadership in Catholic and faith-based health systems, Trish Cassidy has served as a CEO and Chief Strategy Officer, leading system-wide and hospital-specific strategic planning. As CSO at AMITA, she directed strategy and service line operations for the Joint Operating Company between AdventHealth and Ascension. Trish has extensive experience in program development, service lines, and care systems, as well as mentoring leaders. She has led initiatives in academic and community hospitals across service lines, marketing, quality, patient safety, risk management, and strategic planning. Trish is passionate about education, and is an adjunct faculty member at Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine, teaching in the Neiswanger Institute of Bioethics. Currently, Trish works with a large surgical group in Chicago and consults nationally on ambulatory, radiology, and system-wide strategic planning.
Love & Speak the Truth podcast is made possible by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, US Region
Executive Producers: Megan Beutel and Jennifer Schmitz
Sound Track: Laurenti Wright on keyboard
Music Composition of Women Bearing Witness: Maria Bierer, IBVM
All Rights Reserved 2025-26. ™