Capella Health

Franklin, TN.  August 22, 2014 — A new annual leadership award has been established by Capella Healthcare in honor of Founder and Executive Board Chair Daniel S. Slipkovich.  The award will be presented annually to an associate whose leadership style and achievements demonstrate the integrity and commitment exemplified by Slipkovich.

“With Capella beginning our tenth year of service, it is an especially appropriate time to pay tribute to the single individual without whom the company would probably not even exist,” said President and CEO Michael Wiechart in announcing the award.  “It was Dan’s vision more than a decade ago that led to our founding. It was his commitment to quality care – first and foremost – that helped craft our mission. And it was his leadership, built on a solid foundation with integrity as its foremost principle, that has brought us to this point.”

Slipkovich co-founded Capella Healthcare in 2005, and served as its first CEO.  Under his leadership, the company has twice been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the nation’s fastest growing health care companies (2012, 2013). More importantly, its hospitals have earned national recognition for quality of care, patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction.

An Eagle Scout at age 13, Slipkovich was selected from among 13,000 Eagle Scouts in a 37-county region to receive one of middle Tennessee’s first Outstanding Eagle Scout Awards in 2011. This prestigious recognition is granted to Eagle Scouts who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at the local, state, or regional level.

“Honor, duty, respect, and helping others are values that resonate in Scouting, and are also values that reflect who Dan Slipkovich is as well as the foundation upon which he has built Capella Healthcare,” said Wiechart who calls Slipkovich his mentor. “His leadership style epitomizes honesty, integrity, and courteousness, and he leads by personal example, always focusing on what is best for the patients and communities we serve.”

The inaugural Founder’s Leadership Award was presented to Rosemari Davis, who left retirement last year to serve as Interim CEO of Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, OR.  Davis had previously served as the hospital’s CEO from 1994 until 2011, when she retired.  During her original 17-year tenure, the hospital experienced tremendous growth and achieved national recognition for its high quality care. The hospital has earned numerous accolades, including being named one of The Joint Commission’s top performers on key quality measures for the past three consecutive years.

After she retired, Davis stayed busy with community activities, including working with the GhanaHope Foundation, a partnership between McMinnville health care supporters and providers in Ghana. She agreed at Capella’s request to come back and serve as interim CEO in 2013.  With the hiring of the hospital’s new CEO last month, she is retiring again.

Having begun her career as a nurse, Davis recently donated $10,000 to Chemeketa Community College to start a scholarship fund for nurses.  In her honor and in conjunction with this award, Capella Healthcare matched her donation to fully endow the scholarship.  It will provide for at least one $1,200 scholarship annually.

             

About Capella Healthcare

Capella Healthcare partners with communities to build strong local healthcare systems that are known for quality patient care. Based in Franklin, Tenn., Capella owns and/or operates 13 acute care and specialty hospital facilities in six states. With the philosophy that all healthcare is local, Capella collaborates with each hospital’s medical staff, board and community leadership to take care to the next level. The company has access to significant leadership and financial resources, investing in its family of hospitals to strengthen and expand services and facilities. The company was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the nation’s fastest growing health care companies in both 2012 and 2013.  

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