Why Radiant Healthcare Supports the Nurses on Boards Coalition

By Dr. Adam Brown, Chief Medical and Marketing Officer, Radiant Healthcare

At Radiant Healthcare, our mission is simple: We exist to support the people who care for patients. For over two decades, we have been the behind-the-scenes engine powering some of the nation’s largest medical groups and clinician staffing agencies. Through credentialing, enrollment, revenue cycle management, and business process optimization, we allow clinical teams to focus on what matters most: delivering exceptional patient care.

Back-office healthcare operations should never get in the way of clinical excellence. Our goal is to improve healthcare by making it easier for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and clinical teams to do their jobs.

Our vision goes beyond operational support, too. Better healthcare and better businesses start with better leadership. We proudly announce Radiant Healthcare’s partnership with the Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC). While our roots are in back-office support operations, our heart is with the clinician workforce — and that’s why our partnership with NOBC is such a natural fit.

NOBC was launched with a bold but necessary vision: to improve the health of communities and the nation by increasing the presence of nurses on corporate, health-related, and nonprofit boards. The coalition is driven by a belief that nurses bring essential, often underrepresented skills to the boardroom. These skills include empathy, critical thinking, strategic planning, team coordination, and crisis leadership.

Nurses are at the center of healthcare delivery. They are connectors, communicators, advocates, business leaders, and care coordinators, touching nearly every aspect of patient care. But far too often, they have been left out of the rooms where the most significant decisions about healthcare policy, business investment, innovation, and delivery are made.

NOBC is changing that. And Radiant Healthcare is honored to help accelerate that change.

Why We Chose to Partner

Our decision to support NOBC is personal. We have seen nurses work. As physicians, we have benefited from their expertise and insight. And we want others to as well.

I have been privileged to work alongside extraordinary nurse leaders throughout my career. As an emergency physician, healthcare executive, and former medical director, I have relied on nurses for clinical advice, business intelligence, and collaborative patient care in the most high-pressure environments. As a healthcare leader, I worked with nurse managers and system-wide nurse executives to build scalable solutions inside hospitals. As a business school professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I have had the opportunity to teach nurse leaders pursuing their MBAs. I know their capacity to lead.

Nurses bring a unique lens to leadership. They understand frontline realities and can translate those into better systems, policies, and innovations. They are often the first to see what is not working — and the first to propose a practical fix. They balance clinical empathy with operational efficiency.

And they have the trust of patients, peers, and communities alike.

At Radiant, we believe the future of healthcare depends on having more leaders who understand what it is like to care for patients. Nurses bring that perspective in a way no one else can.

Shared Values, Shared Goals

Our partnership with NOBC reflects our shared equity, collaboration, and excellence values. We believe healthcare leadership should reflect the workforce’s diversity and expertise. Nurses are not just caregivers; they are problem-solvers, systems thinkers, and strategic advisors.

Supporting NOBC also aligns with our own mission to lift the administrative burdens off clinicians, allowing them to lead, innovate, and thrive. It is not enough to support healthcare leaders at the bedside —we must also support them in the boardroom.

As the founding member of NOBC’s Corporate Advisory Board, Radiant is committed to advancing initiatives that place nurses in positions of influence, whether that is in hospital systems, healthcare companies, or Fortune 500 businesses. We believe that every industry can benefit from the voice of a nurse at the table.

What’s Next

At Radiant Healthcare, we are not just supporting clinicians behind the scenes. We are investing in a future where the people closest to patients are also closest to power. We are honored to stand alongside NOBC in this mission.

This partnership is only the beginning. Together with NOBC, Radiant will champion new leadership development pathways, advocate for broader boardroom representation, and share best practices for how healthcare companies and other businesses can better work with nurse leaders to make an impact.

And we will continue doing what Radiant does best: helping healthcare organizations run smarter so their people can lead stronger. The future of healthcare requires bold thinking and compassionate leadership. Nurses offer both. If you’re a healthcare organization, board leader, or business looking to build a better future, invite a nurse into the room and make them a member of your board.

We will all be better off for it.