Bassam Kawwass
President, AScript, LLC
During his career of more than thirty nine years in health services administration, Bassam Kawwass, FACHE has served in senior management and leadership roles helping make visions come true in academic medical centers, hospitals, acute care and mental health hospital management companies, physician groups, health management program and facility development, strategic planning consulting firms, correctional health services, billing and collections, information technology and software application service providers.
Within the scope of his institutional management roles, he served as CEO of several hospitals ranging from 60 beds to 350 beds, with focus on medical staff, operations, planning and marketing. His physician practice experience includes directing ambulatory services at a 420-bed teaching hospital, establishing and directing hospital-physician multi-specialty group practices, and being the catalyst for the development of a network of primary care physician practices and rural hospitals around a tertiary care teaching hospital hub. Mr. Kawwass has extensive experience in the start-up, development and marketing of new patient care programs, as well as the design, construction and management of psychiatric and medical-surgical, long term care health care facilities, ambulatory care centers, and hospitals. He has directed major design, construction, and commissioning of projects of several health care facilities worldwide. He has in-depth experience in medical records administration and information technology,physician recruitment and development, program development, joint ventures, practice management and health and hospital administration.
Mr. Kawwass completed his master's degree in health and hospital administration at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, with a residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore. He received his health information management education at St. Louis University, St. Louis, and his bachelor degree in business administration education at the American University of Beirut. He has been a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) and a Board Certified Fellow Healthcare Executive (FACHE).
Mr. Kawwass served on several national and state advisory committees, including: Virginia General Assembly's Joint Committee on Technology and Science (JCOTS), The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Bassam was re-elected in 2008 to serve as the ACHE Regent-at-Large for Region 2 (Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Puerto Rico). He received several awards and currently serves as the Regent at Large for District 2 of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
