HCA Names Dana Oaks To CEO Of Columbia Hospital

The Executive Development Progam is pleased to announce the promotion of one of our COO Development Program Alumni, Dana Oaks from COO at Ogden Regional Medical Center to CEO of Columbia Hospital.  Dana started with HCA in 2004 when he joined the COO development program. He served as associate administrator at both Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, CA and at Ogden Regional Medical Center (ORMC) in Utah. He was promoted from Associate Administrator to COO of Ogden Regional in 2007. Ogden Regional is a part of the Mountain Division.   Dana has had many accomplishments during his four and a half year tenure as COO, including increasing HCAPS scores from a hospital ranking of 93rd in the company (2nd Q 2009) to 13th in the company (2nd Q of 2011). At Ogden he also provided strong leadership to a variety of hospital departments and the only Blood Donor/Collection Service of its kind in HCA.  This year alone Dana is credited for opening a joint care unit, a hospital owned hyperbarics and wound care unit, a JV cancer treatment center, and leading a surgical services capacity and revenue enhancing project with GE consulting, which joint commission cited as a “leading practice”.   Dana started as the CEO of Columbia Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida in the East Florida Division this month, on September 1st.

Please join me in congratulating Dana on this well deserved promotion and wishing him well as he begins this next chapter in his professional career.