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After six months of search and interviews, the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics announced its new leader Wednesday.
Donna Katen-Bahensky has been selected as the UW Hospital's president and chief executive officer, after serving as chief executive officer at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and senior associate vice president for medical affairs at University of Iowa Health Care since 2002.
The UW Hospital board initially identified 10 possible candidates at the end of July, eventually interviewing five, board chairman Pat Boyle said.
Katen-Bahensky was selected as one of two for a run of callbacks, and was selected for the position after the second candidate lost interest in the position.
"[Her] most important task is to maintain the high levels that we have achieved as far as patient care," Boyle said. "We won several awards recently as an outstanding hospital in providing quality health care, and we want to maintain that reputation."
Boyle said the board is extremely happy with the decision to employ Katen-Bahensky, adding, "she'll fit into the Wisconsin culture just perfectly."
"She's got an orientation for patient care and the importance of patient care — she's got an orientation of the role of the academic medical center and the utilization of medical sciences in improving patient care," Boyle said. "She has a flare for working with all kinds of different people and values employees as being extremely important to the enterprise."
Katen-Bahensky will replace current interim CEO Carl Getto, who has led the hospital since September, when then-CEO Donna Sollenberger left to head the Baylor Clinic and Hospital in Houston.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for [Katen-Bahensky], and we offer our best wishes for the future," University of Iowa President Sally Mason said in a statement. "We also offer her our thanks for setting a strong foundation for our future success."
Katen-Bahensky will have a $600,000 salary and she is expected to start her contract Feb. 4, 2008.
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