Our Leadership Team

Recently, he was recruited to lead Trident USA Health. With net revenues exceeding $450M and over 5,300 employees serving customers in 37 states, TridentUSA Health Services (tridentusahealth.com) offers a total clinical services platform for Skilled Nursing Facilities, Assisted Living Communities, Continuing Care Retirement Communities, Home Health Agencies, Hospice, Hospitals, as well as the Government and Industrial sectors states across the U.S. Andrei guided TridentCare, through a successful financial and operational restructure. In the process, he helped streamline operations, and increased profitability from an EBITDA run-rate of $2 mill to $26 million. The company renegotiated its debt structure commitments from $700 million to $150 million through the Bankruptcy process. TridentCare emerged from the reorganization in 2019.

As CEO of Verity Health, a six-hospital system in California, with $1.5 billion in revenues, over 8,000 employees, Mr. Soran executed on an $82 million EBITDA performance improvement in one year, acquired several practices, a management company, five surgery centers and recruited more than 350 physicians. While leading through difficult circumstances, Andrei oversaw the transition from a holding strategy to a centralized operation and recruited over 30 executives to join him. The company managed to refinance the venture and execute several Real Estate transactions. He successfully participated in the sale of the company.

Previously, he served as the COO of Detroit Medical Center, an eight-hospital system in Michigan with $2.4 billion in revenues, and 10,000 employees. There, he helped improve costs by $40 million, EBITDA by 65 million, coordinated ACO’s, health plan, and directed $850 million in capital deployment. An expert in Lean Management, he centralized management activities creating economies of scale.

He is a clinician, a Board Certified Orthopedic Physical Therapist, with knowledge in most care settings across the continuum, ranging from Acute Care to Post Acute, Nursing Homes, and Home Care.

Married with three children, he resides in Newton, MA. He was a professional athlete and did spend significant time in the Service. When he is not editing his Bio, Andrei enjoys working on his Private Pilot Certificate and playing golf.

Prior to co-founding Pipeline Health, Dr. Bell served as President and Co-founder of Benchmark Hospitalists, as well as President of Emergent Medical Associates, a large Los Angeles based emergency medicine management company. During his tenure, the companies grew to be the largest hospital based physician groups in the Southern California market and continue to thrive and grow. He also served as Managing Partner of Avanti Hospitals and over the course of a decade participated in the growth and expansion of the hospitals in the greater Los Angeles area.

A native of Los Angeles, Dr. Bell received his undergraduate training in Santa Barbara, California, at Westmont College, graduating with a degree in Biology. His graduate medical school training was at The Chicago Medical School/University of Health Sciences. He went on to complete his residency in Emergency Medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center. After his residency, Dr. Bell was on staff at numerous Southern California hospitals in various roles, including staff emergency physician, medical director, Medical Executive Committee member, as well as board member. He practiced medicine for two decades before focusing his full attention to the management of healthcare.

Dr. Bell has been a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians since 1998 and a diplomate on the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Now, he is an active member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (California Chapter), Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Directors Association, California Medical Association, and the American Medical Association.

He serves on various boards including the Marconi Foundation, Huntington Beach Hospital, and Goals for Life.

In his free time he teaches physician leadership skills in healthcare administrative management, and mentors physicians in the area of business development. He has published various articles on topics such as pediatric cardiology, nutrition, and emergency medicine reimbursement, and frequently lectures on subjects most interesting to him and useful to medical professionals worldwide.

When he is not working, he enjoys cycling, rugby, traveling with his family, and surfing with his sons.

This niche experience is what sets him apart within the industry and made him well-suited to take the reins at Pipeline while working collaboratively with the CFO and other decision makers. Nick’s highly focused skill has enabled Pipeline to have a more versatile and well-rounded management team with a depth and breadth of experience that isn’t easily found at other large hospital ownership groups.

This creativity and agility came into play in their most pressing time last year. Nick was able to use his business acumen and negotiation prowess to identify ways to stay ahead of the many extreme challenges brought on by the pandemic that affected their operations. He found ingenious ways to get the tools they needed to continue to successfully treat patients as well as ensure that their medical staff had the essential resources that were necessary to keep moving forward.

Nick holds BS degrees in Finance & Banking, Real Estate, and Economics and an MBA from the University of Missouri.

Prior to joining AHMC, Joe served as Corporate Chief Operating Officer of Verity Health System. In his role as COO, he was responsible for the operations and turnaround of a multi-facility private equity-backed healthcare organization with revenues of $1.5B. His contributions led to operational and financial improvements in many areas including labor efficiency, clinical quality, patient/physician satisfaction and business development.

Joe joined Tenet Healthcare in 2003 and held executive roles at various California hospitals including: Fountain Valley Regional Medical Center (CEO), Lakewood Regional Medical Center (CEO), Twin Cities Community Hospital (COO) and USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. During his time at Tenet, his hospitals were recognized for exemplary clinical quality and outstanding operational and financial performance earning him and his team four distinct Tenet Circle of Excellence Awards.

Prior to his career in health care, Joe worked for Arthur Andersen, LLC. He earned his California CPA license (not renewed) and worked in three separate disciplines–taxation, financial audit and business consulting.

Joe earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, San Bernardino, and his MBA from the University of Southern California. He also attended Harvard University’s prestigious Advanced Management Program.

During his time at CHA HPMC, he successfully grew the net patient revenue by 26.3% and surgical volumes increased by 32.8%. Robert led CHA HPMC during a period of the quick growth and wide expansion of the hospital campus, successfully established new service lines of ophthalmology and orthopedics, and upgraded to cutting-edge technology such as da Vinci Xi Surgical System and CORI surgical robotics system.

Previously, he served as the University of Southern California Health System CFO. During his time at USC he planned and coordinated a $100 million turn-around which helped to lead the three hospitals and 800-physician medical group to financial stability.

With his comprehensive professional history in the healthcare financial sector, he’s well-positioned to push forward Pipeline’s custom-built operational model that strives to bring clinical excellence, operational efficiency, and financial stability together for improved services to the communities across the country in which they serve.

Robert earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration with a specialization in accounting from The Cal State University and a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University.

A hallmark of Traci’s career has been her ability to build strong, high performance HR teams and foster corporate cultures. As a result, her team have been instrumental in her corporations earning “Best Places to Work” awards along with Guardian of Excellence Awards (Press Ganey) for four (4) straight years. Traci’s leadership has delivered quarter over quarter results, achieved growth targets and built stakeholder value.

Bisping and her team will continue to enhance the functionality of Cerner and all its facets. She will supervise additional enhancements to our security protocols, migration to cloud and innovation adoption.

Prior to serving in that role, Bisping held the position of Director of Clinical Informatics for Pipeline’s Chicago market. Before that she worked at West Suburban Medical Center as Director of Rehabilitation and then as interim Director of Operations at West Sub’s River Forest Campus.

She earned a bachelor of science degree in exercise science and a doctorate of physical therapy degree, both from Marquette University.

Bob will work with physicians, nurses and other leaders across the Pipeline hospitals to develop an effective and sustainable strategy for improving the quality of the care delivered. His plans include a focus on engaging physicians, empowering nurses and implementing standardization in our metrics, best practices, response times and more.

A graduate of Brandeis University with a bachelor’s degree in biology, biochemistry and general science, Bob earned his medical degree from Hahnemann University. He completed adult and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery fellowships at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Bob has dedicated much of his career to serving communities facing the same challenges that the Pipeline communities face. He advocates for connecting with the community, engaging faith-based organizations and community leaders to address local health care needs.

Jane’s deep experience also includes leadership of marketing and communications programs at Cedars-Sinai Health System, USC Keck Medicine and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

More recently, Jane led her own consulting business, serving a variety of health care organizations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurs.

Jane’s educational background includes a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Texas A&M University. She lives in South Pasadena, CA, with her husband Chris Glaeser.