Mike Bend is an accomplished healthcare industry executive with 28+ years of achievements and leadership in driving teams to meet and exceed reimbursement, sales, and organizational expectations. Prior to the post of Executive Vice President in 2015, Mike held a number of increasingly responsible roles in executive and general management, including 18 years as a Partner with CareLinc Medical Equipment.

As an agile senior leader, Mike is known for his strong project management skills, increasing organizational capacity through the streamlining of complex processes that boost efficiencies, reduce costs, and improving the customer experience for patients transitioning from the hospital to the home.

As a member of the Henry Ford Health System Process Improvement and Leadership Development teams, Mike is laser-focused on improving efficiencies and quality while developing and expanding the capacity of employees to perform in leadership roles that facilitate execution of the systems strategy. He is regarded as a Healthcare Thought Leader for the introduction of pulseM reputation management software to the healthcare industry.