Dr Lynda Decker is a Physician-Entrepreneur, Change Strategist, ‘Hub and Spoke’ Health Innovator. She qualified as a Medical Practitioner in 1993 and has the past quarter century worked in various capacities within the Public and Private Sector of the Healthcare Industry in Ghana. During these years a significant amount has been spent in the Private sector acquiring an immense wealth of experience, coordinating Client focused Clinical care with great emphasis on Clinical, Occupational, Immigration and Travel Health as well as Corporate care. In recent years has been the lead Consultant in providing staffing solutions for an expansion projects in two leading referral Hospitals in Accra Ghana,
Dr Decker is the CEO of Franklyn Medical Centre, a carefully curated clinical Service in Accra, providing bespoke Clinical Care & Corporate Health Support services since 2007. Her unique brand has at its core excellence in Healthcare delivery at all levels of the income spectrum, with innovations extending into accessible services, health education, access to information and strategic partnerships. Over the past decade most of her time has been channeled into facilitating Private Health Services support through Franklyn Medical Services – Placement Services, the largest medical professional outsourcing service in the country.
Lynda’s passions include Excellence in healthcare delivery at all levels of the value chain, and a fervent ‘evangelist’ of accessible affordable health services and preventive care. Lynda’s personal brand revolves around a pragmatic and inherent patient-centric approach driven by values of human dignity, relentless excellence and operational dexterity. She was awarded the Most influential Woman in Business (Medical Category) Regional Award (Central and West Africa) 2017 & 2019 by CEO Global and Nominated again last year in the same category for CEO Global Pan African Awards.
Dr Decker is foundation Board Member of HFG with the role Vice Chair at inception and recently appointed CEO the Federation.
“My career as a Physician started 27 years ago, and very quickly I realized that given the right mix of circumstances and commitment, I could provide maximum impact in the Private sector. I joined the private sector in 1996 when it wasn’t a trendy area to work in and started a Private Practice with a leaning into Private health services support in 2007. I have since been committed to improving the sector through a carefully curated network of best in class clinicians and providers.”
My role in Healthcare Federation Ghana allows me the opportunity to serve the private healthcare sector by drawing from my vision of excellence in service standards and harnessing that to impact private sector participation and growth. National impact is a team effort and healthcare Federation Ghana provides the right platform to positively impact healthcare sector. Dr Decker is also Lead for the Partnerships Committee.