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St. Peter's plans single president for its hospitals
Move is the latest to integrate components of health group
Updated 4:55 pm, Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Albany
St. Peter's Health Partners plans to place its hospitals in Albany and Troy under one president, integrating operations on both sides of the Hudson River.
The announcement is the latest in its move to organize its various services into three components — continuing care, ambulatory care, and acute care, James Reed, St. Peter's Health Partners CEO, said in an interview Tuesday.
"We're moving to a single president for acute care ... to respond to the consolidation and integration going on around us," Dr. Reed said.
Currently, Norman E. Dascher Jr. is CEO of St. Mary's and Samaritan Hospitals in Troy, and Virginia Golden is CEO of St. Peter's and Albany Memorial Hospitals in Albany.
"We'll go to this single president position... a transition that will occur over the summer," Dr. Reed said. "We expect we'll have the new president in place in July."
What's ahead for Dacsher and Golden?
"The next step for them is going to depend on this search process and their own individual decisions," Dr. Reed said. Whether they'll seek to be candidates for the new position will "be up to them," he said.
Golden is 65, while Dascher is 64.
But their current positions will no longer exist, Dr. Reed said.
It has been nearly seven years since the merger was announced, combining four hospitals, 125 separate locactions, and more than 11,700 employees. The reorganization leaves St. Peter's Health Partners with two acute-care hospitals, St. Peter's in Albany and Samaritan in Troy. St. Mary's and Albany Memorial will become outpatient health centers.
The Troy hospitals are completing a $99 million upgrade of their facilities, called the Troy Master Facilities Plan. A major part of that plan, a new five-story patient pavilion at Samaritan, is expected to open this September.
Other organizaional changes are ahead.
"Health care is evolving, too," said Dr. Reed, who said the organization plans to name a single chief clinical officer for the entire system.
