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As CEO of MetroWest Medical Center (MWMC), Andrei Soran oversees the operations of two acute care hospitals, a home care agency and several physician practices. For more than 100 years, MWMC has played a critical role in the community.   Beyond providing the highest quality care for patients — many of them without adequate insurance coverage — MWMC is a major community employer and has made it a priority to support various organizations that share its mission of caring for neighbors in need.

 

Since being named CEO in March of 2006, Soran has worked tirelessly to ensure that MWMC remains a viable community hospital that provides a large array of services for the community in the MetroWest area. As part of this commitment, Soran recently led an effort to educate the broader community about the impact that Partners/Newton Wellesley Hospital’s proposed expansion in Framingham would have on the economic sustainability of MWMC and, in turn, its ability to fulfill its role as a full-service community hospital. Newton Wellesley Hospital eventually withdrew its application for the proposed surgical facility.

 

Soran has also been and continues to be a vocal advocate for equitable reimbursements for community hospitals. Like many community hospitals in the region, MWMC receives far lower rates of reimbursement for the care it provides, while some of the larger teaching hospitals are reimbursed at a significantly higher rate for comparable quality of care.

 

Under Soran’s leadership, MWMC announced two agreements with major Boston teaching hospitals in early 2009 that furthered the hospital’s mission to provide the highest in quality care to patients in the community. In February, MWMC entered into a partnership with Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston to provide comprehensive, expert pediatric care at MWMC starting in July 2009. The affiliation significantly increased the number of pediatric specialists available to MWMC patients. 

 

In March, MWMC signed a memorandum of understanding to explore an affiliation with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) that will lead to the expansion of services offered at MWMC, create a clinical integration model that will improve patient access to specialty care in the community hospital setting, and offer the MetroWest community access to advanced medical care at BIDMC. This affiliation seeks to build upon the longstanding relationship that BIDMC and MWMC have had over several years in areas such as cardiology and oncology. 

 

Soran is involved in various civic activities within the MetroWest region. He serves as a board member for organizations including MassBay Community College. He regularly meets with and collaborates with local government agencies and officials on issues of public health and safety and seeks input from patients and residents on how MWMC can expand its presence in the community. In 2008 he formed the hospital’s patient advisory council, before the Commonwealth required hospitals to do so. 

 

Before coming to MetroWest Medical Center, Soran was CEO at Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, and COO at Merrimack Valley Hospital in Haverhill. He also was director of strategic implementation at MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, and COO at Casa Colina Rehabilitation Centers (California) where he assisted with strategic planning and activities related to the building of a $32 million replacement hospital.

 

Soran, who received his bachelor’s degree in physical therapy from Tel Aviv University in Israel, was awarded his master’s degree in science of management from Boston University/Ben Gurion University of Israel.