David Bussone serves as a veteran hospital and health system Chief Executive Officer with an enviable track record for turning budgets around. His serial successes in maximizing productivity and profitability make David Bussone a sought-after health care executive. Following his Assistant and Associate Administrator positions with the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) between 1979 and 1984, David Bussone was hired as the Associate Director for the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. David Bussone distinguished himself by improving hospital support and overseeing a $13 million budget turnaround in a year’s time. Under a Hospital Corporation of America (now HCA) contract, David Bussone became Director and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, responsible for three hospitals. David Bussone expanded services, implemented referral programs for specialty patients, and secured more federal funding. By 1991, net revenues reached $180 million. His successes in Mississippi led David Bussone to accept a position in Florida as President and Chief Executive Officer of Tampa General Healthcare, a system consisting of a teaching hospital, rehab unit, and psychiatry facility. Within three years, David Bussone acquired a second psychiatry facility to combine services with the first, implemented an outpatient diversification program, and increased state reimbursements. For his next challenge, David Bussone advanced to HCA’s Chief Executive Officer of two Plantation, Florida, acquisitions, Westside Regional Medical Center and Plantation General Hospital. David Bussone merged two different management teams, combined multiple physician departments, and reorganized hospital bylaws, rules, and regulations to improve revenue greatly during his three-year tenure. David Bussone spent the ensuing five years as Senior Vice President at Cambio Health Solutions (now FTI Cambio) in Brentwood, Tennessee. With oversight of numerous turnarounds and performance improvement projects, David Bussone generated as much as $37 million in savings on individual projects through his efficiency efforts. In 2002, David Bussone launched a consulting firm, Apparo Healthcare, LLC, which he continues to operate today. As Chief Executive Officer, David Bussone offers his expertise in improving operations, performance, and finances to client health care systems and hospitals. Universal Health Services, Inc., offered David Bussone the position of Group Director for four Las Vegas-area hospitals in 2005. David Bussone added a 5th facility, reduced expenses, elevated staff performance, and increased operating margins by 14 percent to reach and maintain market share leadership. Universal Health Services, Inc., promoted David Bussone to Senior Vice President of the Acute Division and Vice President of the Western Region. David Bussone oversaw operations and finances for 11 acute care hospitals, began construction of a 12th, and improved net patient revenues to the near-$2 billion mark. Later, MedCath Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina, secured David Bussone to strategize expansion from its base of 11 hospitals by adding general acute care facilities. MedCath was founded as a mobile catheterization lab and heart hospital company. David Bussone estimates that consolidated net revenue reached nearly $600 million in 2010.