IASIS Healthcare Names French Division President.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 7, 2000 -IASIS Healthcare announced today that Michael French
Michael French is a Traditionalist Roman Catholic bishop, residing at Ashford, Kent, England. has been named division president for Arizona and Florida. "Mike is a great addition to the IASIS team," said Wayne Gower, president and chief executive officer of IASIS. "He has a track record of building good relationships in our industry, having worked in both investor-owned and not-for-profit organizations, and he has demonstrated exceptional performance in both the operations and financial areas of healthcare services. We are very pleased to have him join us." As Arizona/Florida division president, French reports directly to Gower and is responsible for all operations in those two states. IASIS owns three general, acute-care hospitals and two surgery centers in the Phoenix metro area This article is about the music production team. For the article about population centers, see metropolitan area. Metro Area are a Brooklyn-based dance music production team composed of Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani. . In Florida, the company owns three general, acute-care hospitals in the Tampa/St. Petersburg market. French, 51, has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare services management. He came to IASIS from Charter Behavioral Health Behavioral health was first used in the 1980's to name the combination of the fields mental health and substance abuse. As an example, an organization serving both mental health and substance abuse clients might refer to its practice as behavioral health or Systems, where he served for two years as president and chief executive officer. French was recruited to Charter during a time of transition and charged with restructuring the organization and identifying new owners for the company's facilities, two objectives that he accomplished. Before that, French was vice president of operations for Tenet Healthcare Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) is an operating company that owns and operates 57 hospitals in the United States [1]. It is based in Dallas, Texas. Its stock ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is NYSE: THC. , where he was responsible for operations, strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , and development for 11 hospitals in the southeast region. Earlier in his career, French was executive vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for Inova Health Systems, a four-hospital, not-for-profit system in Northern Virginia. "I am very excited about the opportunity here at IASIS," said French. "We have an exceptional management team and a strong strategy for growth, and I am pleased to be on the ground floor with this organization." IASIS Healthcare owns and operates 15 general, acute-care hospitals (with a total of 2,194 operating beds) and four ambulatory surgery centers ambulatory surgery center A free-standing center that performs various types of surgery in Arizona, Florida, Texas and Utah. Founded in 1998, the company is developing community-focused hospital networks in high-growth markets. IASIS Healthcare's corporate offices are in Franklin, Tenn. |
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