Hiram Seth Whitmer

Healthcare Administrator

Healthcare Leader

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Born in Arizona and raised in a large family, I now enjoy a large family of my own. My wife and five children mean the world to me! I am lucky to be the husband to the most amazing woman on earth, who is a successful mother, author, respiratory therapist, and much more. I have lived in many states and visited many more. I love the outdoors and I love food (the latter, perhaps too much).

From my youth I learned how to work hard from my Dad, as well as how to love and respect others. I have a bachelor’s degree in health administration services, and a Master of Health Administration. I am also a licensed Healthcare Facility Administrator (nursing home administrator). I am a veteran of the United States Air Force, where I received an honorable discharge as a Captain in the Medical Services Corp.

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I love healthcare and the dynamics involved to provide transformational care to the communities I live. In general, I love people. I love learning about others, and I love to lift them and help them to become better.

My role as the executive is to lead. As a leader I am focused on creating a culture and vision. I am responsible for mentoring and teaching my executive team who then in turn does the same for their teams. I am a man of integrity and honesty. While I certainly make mistakes, I view every moment as an opportunity to improve myself. I trust others to fulfill their work and strive understand the motivating drivers behind each person in my team. Most importantly I am a husband and father of five beautiful children. As is the case with being a father, I believe that leadership is a calling of love and compassion.

Articles by Seth Whitmer

Gratitude- A message to my staff: “Some of you may remember that I have talked about gratitude in the past. While I certainly don’t have all the answers, I have found this principle of gratitude to be one of them. I would like to focus on it again today. Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” I am convinced that from gratitude springs forth compassion and forgiveness. I believe they follow in that order. If I may, I would like to share with you a personal story to illustrate this.”

How do you define honesty? “A question I love to ask when interviewing candidates for a job is, how do you define honesty and how do you live it? Typically I get a response of, “telling the truth.” That’s it, nothing more… In full transparency, its not a trick question, I really want to know what it means to them. Often my hiring teams will ask me why I ask this question. The answer to that question and what honesty means to me, is what I hope to layout in this essay.”

Passion: “For those that know me, words carry a lot of power. They define behavior and thought. In this light I hope to share my thoughts on a very important word, passion. I hope those that read this will find this thought provoking and helpful. The modern use of the word passion, has little to do with its root or original meaning. This change in meaning and its use in our modern world has caused some reflection on my part for the last two decades. It is something that I have discovered to be undesirable in its modern use.”