Executive & board advisory
Strategy, governance, and leadership transitions for community health organizations.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Anne Newland, MD, MPH
Founder and Managing Partner, Towering House Consulting
A physician executive with more than two decades in rural and tribal health care. I help health centers, boards, and clinical teams make hard decisions well, grow leaders from within, and build care that holds up in the communities that need it most.
North Country HealthCare
The federally qualified health center she led across northern Arizona
- communities served
- 13communities served
- team members
- ~500team members
- annual revenue
- $50M+annual revenue
- years as chief executive
- 10years as chief executive
Advisory
Three kinds of work, one way of working
Rural & tribal health strategy
Program design and operations for care delivered across distance, scarcity, and jurisdictional complexity.
Clinical workforce & graduate medical education
Residency program development, recruitment and retention, and growing clinician leaders.
About
Where the work comes from
Eight years with the Indian Health Service in Kayenta, then thirteen years at North Country HealthCare in Flagstaff, ending as chief executive. Two decades of practice in places where the nearest referral center is hours away.
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Notes from the work
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Based in Flagstaff, Arizona. Working with organizations across the Southwest and nationally.