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William Mills, MD, Internal Medicine, Louisville, KY

WilliamRobertMillsMD

Internal Medicine Louisville, KY

Geriatric Medicine

Executive Vice President, Medical Affairs & Innovation, BrightSpring Health Services

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  • Office

    805 N Whittington Pkwy
    Louisville, KY 40222
    Phone+1 440-368-6868

Summary

  • William Mills, M.D. – Dr. Mills is the Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and Innovation, leading the organization’s value-based care outcomes strategy, strategic partnership development and innovation areas. Mills is committed to building high-performance health plan and strategic partnerships that leverage BrightSpring’s national home and community-based healthcare services and pharmacy network capabilities, including home-based primary care and in-home medication therapy management. To date, Mills’ work at BrightSpring has involved dozens of peer-reviewed publications and presentations featuring the company’s quality results, resulting in over one hundred additional citations in the medical literature since 2020. Some specific themes of the work focus on driving access to high quality care through novel programs developed to address home-based primary care opportunities, frailty, medication adherence, interventions to reduce hospitalization rate in complex populations, infection control in congregate care settings, and better care of people with disabilities. Mills headed the organization’s Outbreak Committee throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with the company’s patient, client and employee infection rate of less than one-third of the U.S. general population rate. BrightSpring’s COVID response received international recognition from a number of organizations, including the World Health Organization, the London School for Economics, and Modern Healthcare, among others.

    Prior to BrightSpring, Mills founded and led Chronic Care Management, Inc (now Cosan Group), a care management organization that has served hundreds of thousands of complex patients utilizing a novel evidence-based approach. Before that, Dr. Mills served as Vice President for Medical Affairs and CMO of Care Management, Home Health and Hospice at Kindred Healthcare. Dr. Mills has founded and served as CEO of two medical groups and a hospice company that were previously acquired.

Education & Training

  • The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University
    The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve UniversityPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 2004 - 2006
  • The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University
    The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve UniversityResidency, Internal Medicine, 2002 - 2005
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
    Case Western Reserve University School of MedicineClass of 2002
  • University of Rochester
    University of RochesterB.A., Chemistry and Biology, with Honors, 1994 - 1998

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2024 - 2026
  • IA State Medical License
    IA State Medical License 2023 - 2026
  • OH State Medical License
    OH State Medical License 2003 - 2026
  • TN State Medical License
    TN State Medical License 2023 - 2026
  • VA State Medical License
    VA State Medical License 2023 - 2026
  • WA State Medical License
    WA State Medical License 2023 - 2026
  • IN State Medical License
    IN State Medical License 2023 - 2025
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
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Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Mentor to Clinician of the Year, Nominee American Academy of Home Care Physicians, 2012
  • CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Practice Fusion EHR, Practice Fusion, Inc., 2011-2013
  • Top 25 Hottest Articles Science Direct, 2007
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Care Integration Across the Care Continuum: House Call Practice as Hub, in Hub and Spoke Care Model for Improved Care Delivery "Strategic Thinkers in Home Care Medicin...  
    Mills, WR, Frontiers, 1/1/2014
  • Home is Where the Heart of the ACO is  
    Mills WR, Landers SH, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 1/1/2013
  • Hospital Care of Assisted Living Residents by an Assisted Living Based Primary Care Team  
    Mills WR, Robertson SP, Ogard, KL, Musni, SR, Tran H, Poltavski DV, Kendis, DR, Home Health Management and Practice, 1/1/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

Abstracts/Posters

  • Chronic Care Management as a Driver of Outcomes.
    Mills WR, HIMSS, Orlando, FL, 1/1/2017
  • Digital Health Innovation Driving Meaningful, Effective and Measurable Business Transformation.
    Mills WR, HealthImpact Northwest, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2016
  • Big Players, Big Visions from the C-Suite.
    Mills WR, Aging 2.0 Optimize Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 1/1/2016
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Other

  • Operationalizing the Triple Aim 
    Mills WR, Keynote Address, American College of Healthcare Executives
    Boston, MA - 1/1/2014
  • Synthesis of Isopropyl Pyrazole Rhodium Complexes used in the Activation of C-H bonds 
    Mills WR, Research Thesis, University of Rochester
    Rochester, NY - 1/1/1994

Press Mentions

  • New BrightSpring Program Slashes Hospitalization Rate for Home Health Patients
    New BrightSpring Program Slashes Hospitalization Rate for Home Health PatientsNovember 23rd, 2023