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In a related development,
Dolan Dalpoas, a Lincoln native, has been named to succeed Hester as
president and chief executive officer of ALMH. Dalpoas will also
provide executive leadership responsibility for Alternative Care
Services and Visiting Nurse Association of Central Illinois. Both
changes will take effect April 17.
ALMH, Alternative Care Services and Visiting Nurse Association of
Central Illinois are all affiliates of Springfield-based MHS. The
health system's other affiliates are Memorial Medical Center,
Springfield; St. Vincent Memorial Hospital, Taylorville; HealthCare
Network Associates; and Mental Health Centers of Central Illinois.
"I am extremely pleased to announce both of these promotions,"
said Robert T. Clarke, Memorial Health System president and chief
executive officer. "The strength of Woody's leadership and
management skills has been proven time and again throughout his more
than 30-year career at Memorial.
"During the 11 years he served as president and chief executive
officer, ALMH evolved into a nationally recognized hospital that is
clearly the best critical access hospital in mid-America."
Clarke added that Dalpoas will bring excellent credentials and a
strong familiarity of ALMH to his new responsibilities. "Dolan held
various management responsibilities at ALMH between 1998 and 2005,
when he assumed his current position at Alternative Care Services,"
Clarke said. "As a Lincoln native, he greatly values the hospital's
important role and its mission to help maintain, restore and improve
the health of the people and communities it serves."
Dolan Dalpoas
Hester and Dalpoas each have the credential of Fellow of the
American College of Healthcare Executives.
In Memorial Health System's newly created position of senior vice
president and chief human resources officer, Hester will draw on his
business acumen, market insight and communication expertise to
connect the health system's people strategy with its business
strategy for being the health care system that people choose over
all others.
He will be executive champion of the Memorial Health System
mission, vision, values, behavioral standards and code of conduct.
He will plan, develop, organize, implement, direct and evaluate the
health system's human resources function and performance. Other key
responsibilities include developing and implementing staffing
strategies, creating progressive and proactive compensation and
benefits programs, developing programs to allow Memorial Health
System to embrace applicants and employees of all backgrounds,
helping facilitate the full development and performance of all
employees, managing budgets and other financial measures, and
providing executive leadership to the Department of Pastoral Care
and Memorial Child Care at Memorial Medical Center.
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Woody Hester Hester began his career in the Pharmacy Department at Memorial
Medical Center in 1975. He served there in positions of increasing
responsibility, including assistant director of pharmacy and
administrative director of pharmacy services, before being named
Memorial Medical Center's assistant vice president of administrative
services in 1991. In 1993, Hester was appointed as the hospital's
administrator of operations development. He later served as vice
president of operations before being elected ALMH president and
chief executive officer in 1995.
Hester earned a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Ferris State
University in Big Rapids, Mich. He holds a master's degree in
communication from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is
a U.S. Army veteran.
As successor to Hester at ALMH, Dalpoas will provide the
executive leadership required to ensure that the 25-bed,
not-for-profit hospital continues to provide the Logan and Mason
County communities it serves with a full range of inpatient and
outpatient services. He will direct the ALMH 2010 project and guide
the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation.
"It is very, very exciting to bring Dolan back to ALMH, where he
began his career in 1994 and remained until being appointed to his
current position at Memorial Health System's Alternative Care
Services affiliate in May 2005," Hester said. "Dolan grew up in
Lincoln. His credentials, background, experience and absolute
dedication to doing what is best for our patients make him a perfect
fit for his new responsibilities.
"As a native son who began and grew his career at ALMH, I am
absolutely certain that Dolan, in partnership with the other
talented people at ALMH, is well-positioned to lead Lincoln's
community hospital into the future."
Dalpoas joined ALMH in 1994 as a staff physical therapist. In
1998, he was promoted to manager of the hospital's rehabilitation
services. In 2001, he took on dual responsibilities as manager of
rehabilitation services and director of quality management. He
became assistant administrator and director of quality management in
2004. Dalpoas assumed his current responsibilities as administrator
of Alternative Care Services in May 2005.
Dalpoas earned a bachelor's degree in physical therapy from
Daemen College in Amherst, N.Y. He holds a master's degree in public
health from the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Dalpoas is active in civic and community affairs in Lincoln. He
is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks,
Lodge 914, and is a parishioner of Holy Family Catholic Church.
Dalpoas and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Lincoln with their two
sons, Joseph Eli, 4, and Louis Anthony, 10 months.
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