2008 Woodie Awards
Head of UIHC to resign
Zhi Xiong - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 12/6/07 Section: Metro
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Helping secure magnet status for nursing excellence at the UIHC - the first site in Iowa to achieve it - was one of her most memorable accomplishments, she said.
The hospital also added several "beautiful new facilities" and integrated a new business improvement model under Katen-Bahensky's years here.
Health-care institutions are constantly recruiting administrators, but the University of Wisconsin piqued her interested when the search board contacted her in October.
"It wasn't really until Wisconsin that I said, 'I would really like to be a candidate,' " Katen-Bahensky said.
She will get to know other hospital directors and spend more time with the medical college when she starts in February, she said.
Her resignation goes into effect Dec. 31; Chief Financial Officer Ken Fisher stepped into the interim role Wednesday.
"He's been in health care for 30 years - he didn't need much training from me," she said. "Like I told the managers: I love the community and love the people here. It will be hard to move, but they're going to be just fine."
DI metro editor Danny Valentine contributed to this article
E-mail DI reporter Zhi Xiong at:
zhi-xiong@uiowa.edu
The hospital also added several "beautiful new facilities" and integrated a new business improvement model under Katen-Bahensky's years here.
Health-care institutions are constantly recruiting administrators, but the University of Wisconsin piqued her interested when the search board contacted her in October.
"It wasn't really until Wisconsin that I said, 'I would really like to be a candidate,' " Katen-Bahensky said.
She will get to know other hospital directors and spend more time with the medical college when she starts in February, she said.
Her resignation goes into effect Dec. 31; Chief Financial Officer Ken Fisher stepped into the interim role Wednesday.
"He's been in health care for 30 years - he didn't need much training from me," she said. "Like I told the managers: I love the community and love the people here. It will be hard to move, but they're going to be just fine."
DI metro editor Danny Valentine contributed to this article
E-mail DI reporter Zhi Xiong at:
zhi-xiong@uiowa.edu
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JW Haga
posted 12/06/07 @ 8:48 AM CST
One wonders if the taking on of the AVP responsibilities w/o a commensurate increase in salary plus the 2 Federal Inspection run-ins didn't hasten a departure. (Continued…)
mark
posted 12/06/07 @ 9:50 AM CST
so she goes! good luck! now if only the university of iowa and the regents in particular, because everyone knows they're the reason for anything and everything perceived bad in iowa, would have given her a couple hundred thousand more, she would have stayed. (Continued…)
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