Former Iowa Clinic administrator to lead Adair County Health System Tuesday, May 25, 2021 2:58 PM
MercyOne announced the appointment of two chief executive positions to its affiliate hospital systems. Catherine Hillestad will join Adair County Health System in Greenfield as CEO, effective July 7. A native of Des Moines, Hillestad brings experience in community and rural health care systems, including an interim CEO role at Davis County Hospital in Bloomfield. Most recently she was the practice administrator with the Iowa Clinic in Des Moines. Also, Joseph Mangiameli will join Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr as CEO, beginning July 26. Mangiameli brings more than 20 years of health care experience to his new role in Mount Ayr, most recently as market vice president of operations for CHI Health in Omaha. Adair County Health System and Ringgold County Hospital are managed through an affiliation agreement with MercyOne. As part of the affiliation, MercyOne provides
Adair County Health System welcomes Catherine Hillestad as Chief Executive Officer
05/24/2021
Greenfield, Iowa; May 24, 2021 – Adair County Health System, an affiliate of MercyOne, announces Catherine Hillestad will join as Chief Executive Officer beginning July 7, 2021. A native of Des Moines, Ms. Hillestad brings experience in community and rural health care systems including serving in an interim CEO role at Davis County Hospital in Bloomfield and most recently as Practice Administrator at The Iowa Clinic in Des Moines.
“I am excited to join Adair County Health System,” she said. “I look forward to building relationships with everyone at the hospital and in the community of Greenfield. I hope to create a center of excellence for rural health care for people in Adair County.”
Between the executive orders from Governor Eric Holcomb, the rising number of local COVID cases and the possibility of getting a vaccine, Daviess Community Hospital officials are scrambling to try and keep up.
Holcombâs latest order will once again force local hospitals to not do any elective surgeries from Dec. 16 to Jan. 3, 2021. The order comes as Holcomb attempts to keep hospital resources available.
âIn order to preserve hospital bed and staffing capacity for the period, licensed hospitals are directed to postpone, or reschedule non-emergent procedures which are unlikely to result in a significant risk to a patientâs acute condition or long-term outcome,â the governorâs order stated.