David Fox, president of Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, Ill., has been named Becker’s Hospital Review’s Hospital CEO of the Year.
Joe Freudenberger, CEO of OakBend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas, and Debbie Hay, president of the Texas Institute for Surgery in Dallas, and were named CEO of the Year runner-ups.
Readers of Becker’s Hospital Review nominated and voted for candidates.
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Mr. Fox has been a healthcare executive his entire career. He earned a gradu-ate degree from the University of Chicago in healthcare management and became the president of Central DuPage Hospital, located in Winfield, Ill., in 1997. He joined Advocate Good Samaritan in 2003 and was recently featured in the 2008 Special Report from the Health Financial Management Asso-ciation. Under his management, Advocate Good Samaritan earned the 2007 Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence Silver Award, an award hon-oring outstanding Illinois hospitals. (Learn more about Mr. Fox)
Mr. Freudenberger has held several positions in hospital administration, serving as COO for OakBend and as CFO for Memorial Health System of East Texas in Lufkin, Texas. Under Mr. Freudenberger’s leadership, Oak-Bend Medical Center received the American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines Silver Performance Achievement Award in July 2008. Mr. Freudenberger received his MBA from Tulane University in New Orleans, La. (Learn more about Mr. Freudenberger)
Before joining the Texas Institute for Surgery, Ms. Hay served as adminis-trator for a surgery center and as an emergency room nurse and manager. She has initiated a number of green policies while serving as president of the Texas Institute for Surgery, including converting paper patient files to electronic. She has a psychology degree from William Woods University in Fulton, Mo., and a nursing degree from Baylor University in Dallas. (Learn more about Ms. Hay)