(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - PeaceHealth has named Joe Mark, MHA, as interim chief administrative officer for PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center to serve until a permanent replacement for Ed Freysinger is identified. Mark will begin the interim role on Dec. 9, 2018. 

“Joe is a seasoned healthcare executive, with more than 35 years of integrated leadership experience as a hospital chief executive officer, chief operating officer and vice president in addition to 10 years of strategy and operations improvement consulting,” said Charles Prosper, chief executive for PeaceHealth’s Northwest network, including its facilities in SE Alaska.

Prosper said, “Joe has experience at PeaceHealth as well; he served in an interim capacity as chief executive in Oregon prior to a permanent executive hire there in 2018. We are looking forward to welcoming Joe to Ketchikan and know his expertise and proven leadership experience will be of great value to the community during this transition.”

Currently, Mark is a director with WolfCreek Partners Group, a firm that focuses on growing leaders and building teams that are focused on vision-directed outcomes at a time when industries including healthcare are becoming increasingly complex.

“PeaceHealth will immediately begin a nationwide search for an individual to lead PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center,” said Prosper.  “As in the past, the local PeaceHealth Ketchikan leadership team and Community Health Board will be involved in the process to help ensure that we find a person who is the right fit for both the medical center and community.” 

Ed Freysinger announced that he was leaving PeaceHealth to be closer to family. Freysinger will be available through Dec. 31, 2019 to help with the transition.

PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, WA, is a not-for-profit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a group practice with more than 900 providers and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest.

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Ed Freysinger to leave PeaceHealth
SitNews - December 03, 2019

Edited by Mary Kauffman, SitNews

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