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Colleen Koski, MSN, RN

Chief Administrative Officer

HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital

Oconto Falls, WI

Ms. Koski leads HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital, drawing on a 36-year nursing career that began at the bedside and progressed through successive clinical and operational leadership roles at HSHS since 2008. A longstanding resident of the county, Ms. Koski brings deep community ties to her leadership, having witnessed the hospital’s growth firsthand and fostered a cross-trained, mission-driven workforce that she credits as central to the hospital’s sustained success. Under her tenure, HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital was recognized as a “Top 100 Critical Access Hospital” by the Chartis Center for Rural Health and received the Chartis “Performance Leadership Award” in 2023 for quality, outcomes and patient experience. The hospital also earned a Press Ganey “Human Experience Guardian of Excellence” award in 2023 and received American Heart Association “Get With the Guidelines” recognitions in 2025 for its care of patients experiencing severe heart attacks. Ms. Koski served as nursing director at the hospital from 2008 to 2024 before being appointed CAO, and previously held clinical manager roles in medical-surgical, surgical and oncology units at other healthcare organizations dating back to 1993.

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