2008 Woodie Awards
Head of UIHC to resign
Zhi Xiong - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 12/6/07 Section: Metro
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After five years as director of the UI Hospitals and Clinics, Donna Katen-Bahensky will be chief executive officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison starting Feb. 4, 2008.
Katen-Bahensky has headed the UIHC since 2002, after serving as the chief operating officer at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals and Clinics.
When the UIHC underwent leadership restructuring in January, Katen-Bahensky added senior associate vice president of Medical Affairs to her responsibilities, serving the merged administrative body for the hospital and the Carver College of Medicine.
She was selected from among five candidates for the Wisconsin hospital, a 471-bed facility that is partnered with a medical foundation and medical school.
In addition to hospital administration, the institution is overseen by an authority board consisting of regent members, state legislators, and physicians, with whom Katen-Bahensky became better acquainted during an interview blitz.
"I saw about 70 people in two days," she said. "It was wonderful."
It was a swift and open process, said Patrick Boyle, emeritus regent and chairman of the Wisconsin Hospital Authority Board. The goal was to have someone appointed by Christmas.
"If you dabble around, you tend to lose good candidates," he said. "We are very, very happy with her."
A quick turnover rate is to be expected in a hospital and academic institution, she added.
The search board liked Katen-Bahensky's experience in a hospital similar to Wisconsin's in size and scope, and her ability to communicate well with employees, Boyle said.
The board also knows about the UIHC's run-ins with federal health inspectors in July and October this year, when the hospital was cited for violating health and safety regulations.
"I was in good communication with them about that," she said.
Katen-Bahensky received a degree in anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked in hospital management roles since the 1980s, after finishing a master of sciences degree in public health administration.
Katen-Bahensky has headed the UIHC since 2002, after serving as the chief operating officer at Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals and Clinics.
When the UIHC underwent leadership restructuring in January, Katen-Bahensky added senior associate vice president of Medical Affairs to her responsibilities, serving the merged administrative body for the hospital and the Carver College of Medicine.
She was selected from among five candidates for the Wisconsin hospital, a 471-bed facility that is partnered with a medical foundation and medical school.
In addition to hospital administration, the institution is overseen by an authority board consisting of regent members, state legislators, and physicians, with whom Katen-Bahensky became better acquainted during an interview blitz.
"I saw about 70 people in two days," she said. "It was wonderful."
It was a swift and open process, said Patrick Boyle, emeritus regent and chairman of the Wisconsin Hospital Authority Board. The goal was to have someone appointed by Christmas.
"If you dabble around, you tend to lose good candidates," he said. "We are very, very happy with her."
A quick turnover rate is to be expected in a hospital and academic institution, she added.
The search board liked Katen-Bahensky's experience in a hospital similar to Wisconsin's in size and scope, and her ability to communicate well with employees, Boyle said.
The board also knows about the UIHC's run-ins with federal health inspectors in July and October this year, when the hospital was cited for violating health and safety regulations.
"I was in good communication with them about that," she said.
Katen-Bahensky received a degree in anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has worked in hospital management roles since the 1980s, after finishing a master of sciences degree in public health administration.
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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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