Despite the turmoil surrounding PeaceHealth, a heavy hitter has joined the team, who’s a familiar face to many in the healthcare industry.
Elizabeth Dunne has recruited Mike Dwyer to become executive vice president for strategy and community health. Dunne is president and CEO of PeaceHealth.
For the past 17 years, Dwyer has been the managing director of client services at PricewaterCoopers LLP in Los Angeles, and has worked across various provider entities, according to his Linked In profile, including hospitals, physician groups/MSOs, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers and NCI designated cancer centers.
Last week, a high-level executive at Peace Health handed in his resignation. Kirk Raboin, chief administrative officer at the St. John Medical Center in Longview, Wash., steps down on Friday after a 36-year career. He assumed that position in 2013 and earlier had been vice president of professional services.
Making the announcement, Beth O’Brien, chief operating officer, called Raboin “an inspirational leader,” saying he made a remarkable commitment to the mission and the patients at PeaceHealth during his lengthy service.
Initial reports indicated Raboin had resigned to spend more time with his family, but since then he’s announced that he’s joining The Vancouver Clinic, a competitor to PeaceHealth, and he intends to concentrate his focus area on imaging.
Dwyer’s Position
Dwyer’s position, meanwhile, has been vacant for some time, following the departure of Tricia Roscoe, who left PeaceHealth in 2014 after Beth O’Brien was hired as chief operating officer.
Roscoe is now principal of her management consulting company, TR Strategic Services LLC and president of Seton Cathollic College Preparatory.
She spent less than a year at PeaceHealth and had replaced Peter Adler who left while Alan Yordy was still the CEO. He spent eight years at the Catholic integrated health system as senior vice president and chief strategy officer for the $2.4 billion system, leaving in 2014.
Adler has since become president of Molina Healthcare, Washington’s largest Medicaid managed care organization, with 550,000 Medicaid, Medicare, and Marketplace members.
Yordy was ousted by PeaceHealth’s board of directors in 2015, and is now the president of The Infinity Group, a healthcare consulting company that he founded in 1997.
Diane can be reached at [email protected].
