Geisinger facility renamed after former CEO: 3 things to know

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System has renamed its Hospital for Advanced Medicine after former Geisinger President and CEO Glenn Steele Jr., MD, PhD, according to The Daily Item.

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Here are three things to know about the name change.

1. The facility is now the Glenn D. Steele Jr. Hospital for Advanced Medicine.

2. Geisinger Health System Foundation Board Chairman William Alexander said Dr. Steele, who retired from the Geisinger position in May, has overseen years of progress at Geisinger, and the health system wanted to connect “the name of this innovator with the name of this building,” according to the report.

3. In addition to the name change, a new portrait of Dr. Steele now hangs in the facility lobby.

 

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