Wayne Easterwood
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As Chief Administrative Officer, Wayne Easterwood leads administrative and support teams for Centerstone, the nation’s largest community-based behavioral healthcare organization. His teams include technology, technical infrastructure, business intelligence, data analytics, human resources, and project management. His work involves planning, implementation and support of innovations as well as ongoing operations across the five-state organization. While often leveraging technology for improvement, the focus is always on improving the delivery of care.
Easterwood was the architect of Centerstone’s first electronic health record in 2001 which was among the very first in the nation for behavioral health.
He holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from Belmont University. Wayne is a member of College Health Information Management Executives (CHIME and participates in TN Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) as well as other healthcare technology groups. He is on the board of TechBridge Tennessee and volunteers with The Bridge both serving those in poverty with unstable housing or suffering from the effects of mental illness. He is a husband to Lisa for 37 years and father of three married sons. He credits his family with the constant pull to the front of the wave of technology and innovation.