CCHS CEO Candidate Meets Locals
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Photo by Ken Graham Tom Tomosino (r) speaks with a group at The Q in downtown Waitsburg on Tuesday.
WAITSBURG – The Columbia County Health System introduced one of its candidates for the open CEO position this week. Tom Tomasino attended meet-and-greet sessions in Dayton Monday evening and in Waitsburg Tuesday morning.
According to CCHS Human Resources Director Steve Stahl, Tomasino is one of three final candidates for the position, which became open when former CEO Jon Smiley left at the end of September.
Tomasino spent seven years as CEO at Whidbey General Hospital and Clinics, in Coupeville, Wash. He left that position earlier this year.
The Whidbey health system serves a district with a population of about 68,000, compared to approximately 5,600 people in the Columbia County Hospital District. Whidbey General is a much larger hospital, and offers more services, than Dayton General.
Tomasino has extensive experience overseeing construction projects at Whidbey. They include construction of two new $3.5 million EMS buildings, and a $5.5 million renovation of the main hospital building.
Like Dayton General Hospital, Whidbey General is a critical access hospital, which, Tomasino said, has given him extensive insight into the important issues affecting small rural health systems.
The Columbia County Hospital District board is expected to make a final CEO selection later this month.
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