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Davis Named Sacred Heart CEO
August 1, 2012
Sacred Heart Health System and Ascension Health announced Tuesday the appointment of Susan Davis as the president and CEO of Sacred Heart Health System.
Davis was selected as the interim President and CEO of Sacred Heart in February and recently was named the permanent CEO. Davis said that when she arrived in Pensacola to succeed Laura Kaiser as the Sacred Heart CEO, she intended to serve as only the interim leader until a permanent CEO was chosen.
“After discussions over the past few months with the leaders at Ascension Health and Sacred Heart’s Board of Trustees, I decided to make a long-term commitment to lead Sacred Heart,” Davis said. “I am excited about the opportunity to lead a great team of employees and to build stronger relationships with the many loyal physicians who have made Sacred Heart a leader in excellent patient outcomes.”
“A number of factors led to my decision to stay as Sacred Heart’s CEO,” she added. “Over the past four months, I have fallen in love with the Sacred Heart family and the communities it serves. I also saw the opportunity to provide Sacred Heart with a vision for the future and a renewed focus on quality, safety and patient satisfaction.”
Davis will lead a health care system that includes hospitals in Pensacola, Walton County, Panama City and Port St. Joe, as well as a network of physicians stretching from Gulf Shores to Apalachicola, Fla.
In addition to her role at Sacred Heart, Davis also will serve as Ascension Health’s Ministry Market Leader for Florida, the Gulf Coast, New York and Connecticut. Ascension Health, the parent organization for Sacred Heart, is the nation’s largest Catholic and nonprofit healthcare system.
Davis has served as the CEO of St. Vincent’s Health in Bridgeport, Conn., since 2004. She began her healthcare career as a nurse in New York City. She served for 18 years in leadership roles at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where she began as vice president of patient care services and then became the chief operating officer and eventually the CEO. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Mount Saint Mary College, a master’s degree in nursing administration from Columbia University in New York, and a doctorate in education from Columbia.
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3 Responses to “Davis Named Sacred Heart CEO”
I do hope that Mrs. Davis will improve the bed side manners of nursing staff out if a 4 day stay 2 awesome nurses. Upon leaving today 5hrs for a wheel chair and sorry have other patients to see! A patient on critical ward is not there to burden you nor should you make them or there family feel as such! I pray that God will give them guidance!
i am hoping that shell do well- in this countrys evolving health care enviroment (especially catholic) , i dont envy her position one little bit- contraceptive mandates for catholic institutions go into effect august 2013.
No business degree or training in school? Guess that falls on someone else at Sacred Heart. Hmmm………..