Meet Robert
Robert Pascasio is a veteran rural/community healthcare administrator based in Anahuac, Texas. With decades of industry experience and a demonstrated talent for improving the organizations he’s served, Robert now helms Pascasio Advisors, LLC.
Over the years, Robert Pascasio has accumulated experience in nearly every aspect of rural/community healthcare operations, including EMS agencies, FQHC and RHC clinic’s, Acute Care Hospitals; both CAH and PPS, Home Health/Hospice agencies, and Assisted Living/Skilled Nursing centers. Most of his experience has been focused on ensuring the viability and sustainability of rural/community healthcare organizations. “Rural communities deserve access to high quality, readily available healthcare,” Pascasio thinks, and he takes great pride in making that a reality.
At Pascasio Advisors, LLC, Robert Pascasio is a trusted advisor and consultant for community healthcare organizations, specializing in identifying opportunities that support enhancing and expanding organization’s efforts and operations to better serve their communities. His extensive expertise includes identifying and implementing strategies to bolster organizational sustainability by developing innovative partnerships, products, programs, and services. Over the years Robert’s activities have included strategic forecasting and planning; community health needs assessments; research and development of clinically integrated networks; and, development and marketing, which Pascasio feels is critically important for rural/community healthcare organizations, but often overlooked or undervalued. Of course, as a practicing Administrator/CEO, Pascasio has significant experience, and accomplishments in operations administration, budget development and management, revenue cycle optimization and building key relationships. “The old saying, “No Margin, No Mission” is just as true today as it was when Sister Kraus first shared the thought decades ago,” Pascasio advises.
Beginning as a CFO in the industry, before shortly becoming a CEO, Robert Pascasio has had the privilege of working with and for a number of front line, top end healthcare organizations across the southwestern United States, mostly in Texas. Most of Pascasio’s experience has been in the public hospital sector, working with and for the community who owned the organization. But, he has also worked with and for non-profit and for-profit organizations, counting his short stint with QHR (now known as Ovation Healthcare) as one of the “most educational and fulfilling” of his career. Other engagements have included a privately held clinic system, advising and consulting an industry start-up and working with a community group in an effort to save their local clinic.
Robert Pascasio was not always in healthcare. After earning his BBA in Accounting/Finance from Southwest Texas State, Pascasio wound up in the construction industry focused on the hospitality sector. “Cost accounting was critically important to success in that industry, a fact that is just as true, but infinitely more difficult to accomplish, in healthcare,” Pascasio advises. Robert returned to Southwest Texas State to pursue a master’s in Healthcare Administration, ultimately obtaining his MS and graduating Summa Cum Laude at the top of his class, while also being active in a number of activities and student organizations.
As an industry expert, Robert Pascasio has had several opportunities to share his knowledge and experience. He has been published numerous times, including co-authoring the landmark “Stakeholder Impact on Two Rural Texas Hospital Closures” (Texas Journal of Rural Health) paper. He has also been a frequent speaker and presenter including at American Hospital Association, Georgia Hospital Association, Texas Department of Agriculture, and Texas Healthcare Trustees meetings, as well as at his alma mater where he was presented with the Outstanding Alumni award.
Other awards and recognitions have included the local Chamber of Commerce naming him “Person of the Year,” the “Pioneer Award” from the Texas Hospital Association as the Outstanding Rural Administrator, and numerous organization awards from The Leapfrog Group, National Rural Health Association, Texas AHEC and the Texas Department of Health, among others.
Robert Pascasio believes, having had the privilege of being a member, that the Rotary “Four-Way Test” are some of the best guiding principles by which one can live life, and practice whatever passion we pursue.
To learn more about Robert Pascasio, visit his Community & Philanthropy site.
