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June 12, 2008
Marquette General Health System President and CEO names new leadership team
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A. Gary Muller, FACHE, president and CEO of Marquette General Health System, names new leadership team. |
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David S. Graser has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Graser will oversee the pharmacy, education, imaging, the laboratory and cath lab, radiation oncology, telehealth and information technology. Graser comes to MGHS from West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, where he served as senior vice president and chief information officer for five years. From 1995-2002, Graser was employed at Texoma Health System in Denison, Texas, where he served as chief information officer. Graser served in the United States Air Force as a medical service corp officer from 1982-94. Graser earned a master’s degree in business administration, and bachelor’s degree in business administration, from the University of Illinois and Champaign/Urbana, respectively. He has been involved in many community efforts to rebuild the New Orleans community, post-Katrina. He has served on the board of directors for HIMSS, an information technology professional society, for the State of Louisiana, and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. |
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Jerry L. Worden, CPA, has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Worden will oversee accounting, medical records, materials management, the business office and patient access. Worden comes to MGHS from St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for five years. From 1982 – 2002, Worden was employed by Northern Michigan Regional Health System/Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, Mich., where he served as a vice president of corporate services for seventeen years, and as assistant vice president of finance for three years. Worden earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting from Central Michigan University. In 1976, Worden served in the Michigan Air National Guard in the accounting and finance unit. He is an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. While in Cedar Rapids, he served as treasurer for the Jane Boyd Board of Directors and Four Oaks Board of Directors, and was vice-chairman for the Linn Community Care Board of Directors. Worden is married and has three children. |
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Dennis D. Boe, RN, has been named Vice President of Support Services. Boe will oversee assisted living, facility management, food/nutrition, housekeeping, EMS, Rampart EMS, spiritual care services, behavioral medicine, cardiovascular, digestive health and bariatrics, oncology, surgical, and women and children services. Boe came to Marquette General in 1977 from Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, where he was a charge nurse on the cardiac care unit. At MGHS, he held a variety of registered nursing positions early in his career, including charge nurse on the cardiac care unit, nursing supervisor, head nurse of orthopedics, staff nurse in intensive care unit and operating room. In 1984 he became the Director of Central Supply. From 1991 – 2005, Boe worked as director of MGHS program development, and from 2005-08, as an MGHS assistant administrator. He’s a graduate of the Hackley Hospital School of Nursing in Muskegon, and has attended Western Michigan University, and Northern Michigan University. Boe serves as a management representative on the clinic operations committee, is president of the board of directors for Peninsula InfoMed and sits on the board of directors for the Ice Lake Clinic Corporation in Iron River. Boe and his wife, Liz, reside in Big Bay and have three grown children, Johannes, Nicholas and Suzy. |
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Frederick P. Hoenke, MD, has been named Medical Director for all physician practices owned and operated by MGHS. Employed by MGHS since 1988, Hoenke’s responsibilities encompass approximately 105 physicians and 35 mid-level practitioners in 30 physician offices and practices throughout the Upper Peninsula. Hoenke’s responsibilities include quality assurance, hiring and employment issues, long-range planning, financial performance, productivity and serving as a communication conduit between employed physicians and MGHS management. Board certified in family medicine, geriatric medicine and addiction medicine, Dr. Hoenke is the assistant director of the Marquette Family Medicine Residency Program, and an assistant clinical professor for the U.P. campus of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Hoenke earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in biology from the University of Cincinnati, where he was inducted into the honor society of Phi Beta Kappa, and earned high college and departmental honors. During his final year of training in the Marquette General Family Medicine Residency Program, he served as chief resident. |
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Dagmar Raica has been named Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer. Raica oversees emergency/trauma, ICU/CCU, respiratory, home health and hospice, anesthesia, rehab services, in-patient psych, dialysis, nursing supervisors, surgical services, med/oncology, surgical unit, neuro/ortho/peds, cardiac IMCU, rehab unit and family birthing center/NICU. Raica has been employed at MGHS since 1982, and has held positions as staff nurse, assistant head nurse and nurse manager for ICU and coronary care. Raica has also served as program director for surgical services, neurosciences and the heart institute. Raica earned a doctorate of nursing practice from Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., and a master’s degree in nursing from NMU. She earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Michigan, and an associate’s degree in nursing from Southwestern Michigan College. Raica has previously been certified as a Critical Care Registered Nurse, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Basic Trauma Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. She is a member of the JCAHO Leadership Chapter Committee, trauma committee, patient grievance committee and institutional review board committee. Raica is also a member of Marquette Rotary West, and she resides in Marquette with her husband, Bob, and has two adult children, Chris and Andrew. |
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Chuck E. Flood has been named Senior Director of Business Analysis and Planning and Compliance Officer. Flood will oversee business analysis, compliance issues and risk management. Flood joined MGHS in January 2007 as a practice manager. Flood earned a master of health services administration degree from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s degree in applied biology, with distinction, from Ferris State University. Prior to joining MGHS, Flood has held consulting and management-level healthcare industry positions and has completed a postgraduate administrative fellowship at William Beaumont Hospital, an 1100-bed academic, research and Level I Trauma hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. Flood is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, currently pursuing fellowship status. Chuck resides in Chocolay Township with his wife, Angela, an Escanaba native, and has one child. |
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David S. Smith has been named Senior Director of Human Resources. Smith will oversee human resources, including employment, employee health & wellness, employee relations and benefits and compensation. Smith has a wealth of experience in various human resources roles in prior employment with U.P. Power Company, Luther Midelfort Mayo Health System, Integrys Energy Group (formerly Wisconsin Public Service) and most recently as director of benefits and compensation at MGHS. Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Michigan Technological University. Prior to moving to Marquette, Smith was active in United Way, Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, March of Dimes Walk America, the Heart Association and various other organizations. Smith is designated as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist and a Compensation Management Specialist. Smith resides in Marquette with his wife, Yvonne, and four children. |
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Mary V. Tippett has been named Senior Director of Marketing. Tippett oversees community relations and marketing, printing services and volunteers. In her 22 years with MGHS, Tippett has held the positions of director of community relations, marketing, and printing services; assistant director of community relations and marketing; and community relations and marketing specialist. Prior to joining MGHS, Tippett was employed at WLUC-TV 6 as a commercial writer-producer. She is a summa cum laude graduate of NMU with a bachelor of arts degree in English, and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. Active in community service for the past 25 years, Tippett currently serves on the board of the Economic Club of Marquette County. She has served as vice chair of the Friends of the DeVos Art Museum at NMU, and was the first woman chair of the Congregation Council of Messiah Lutheran Church. She has also served as a delegate to the Upper Great Lakes Synod Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Tippett was an incorporating board member of the After School Program, which is now run by Child and Family Services of the Upper Peninsula, and was an incorporating board member of the U.P. Children’s Museum. She has conducted research on underground miners and was a conference presenter for the Sesquicentennial of the Discovery of Iron Ore on the Marquette Range. She is a member of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development, and has been named to Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in the Media and Communications. Tippett will begin a master’s program during the winter semester. The daughter of Dewey and Ellen Tippett of Ishpeming, she has two adult children, James Carlyon and Laura Brouillette. |
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Patrick J. Bray has been named President of the Marquette General Foundation, having come on board early in 2008. Bray comes to Marquette General from the Covenant HealthCare Foundation in Saginaw where he was the major and planned giving officer for nearly two years. Prior to working with Covenant HealthCare Foundation, Bray spent four years as the vice president of fund development at Gratiot Health System in Alma, Mich. Bray earned a master’s degree in public relations from Michigan State University. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Central Michigan University. Bray is a member of the Association for Health Care Philanthropy and is an alumnus of the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School. Bray plans to reside in Marquette with his wife and four children. |
MGHS is still recruiting for a Senior Vice President-Chief Medical Officer, and a Vice President of Physician Practices.
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