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Dorothy Pitner Healy Announces Retirement
July 2006
Dorothy Pitner Healy, RN, BSN, MBA, has announced that she will retire as president and CEO of Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter.
The organization has commenced a search process and hopes to announce the selection of the new president and CEO by the end of the year. In the interim, Chief Operating Officer Mary K. Sheehan, RN, MSN, MBA, will assume responsibility for the duties and functions of the position of president and CEO.
Pitner Healy, who will begin reducing her level of activity in mid-August, is entering into a long-term consulting relationship with CareCenter.
Katherine Z. Nicklin, chairman of the CareCenter Board of Directors, stated, “We are extremely pleased that Dottie has agreed to continue her affiliation with the organization. This arrangement will secure for CareCenter the long-term availability of her expertise, experience, judgment and visionary qualities.”
Nicklin commented further that “CareCenter is extremely grateful for Dottie’s incalculable contributions to the organization over the past 16 years and looks forward to her continued invaluable service in the years ahead.”
Under Pitner Healy’s leadership, the organization, first known as Hospice of the North Shore, grew from serving five hospice patients a day to providing a broad range of services that daily touch the lives of nearly 2,000 individuals in northern and southern Cook County as well as Lake County (Illinois). The annual budget of CareCenter has correspondingly increased from less than $500,000 to more than $30 million.
CareCenter now provides a continuum of programs and services that address the needs of patients not only at the end of life but also when they face serious and complex health issues or age-related health conditions. These programs have received national recognition for innovation and excellence.
Pitner Healy also was a key leader in the Campaign for CareCenter, a successful $15 million capital campaign to construct the organization’s new community care center in Glenview, which now serves as the central site for the coordination of all program and administrative functions.
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