The Pulse | winter 2009

Meet Our New President and CEO

Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare (JHSMH) welcomes Dawn Erckenbrack, Ed.D., as the new president and CEO of Jewish Hospital Medical Center South. She will officially join the organization on April 6.

Currently, Erckenbrack serves as chief operations officer at Ireland Community Hospital in Fort Knox, Ky. Before that, she served as senior health program manager and senior health policy analyst at the Department of Defense in Arlington, Va., as an associate administrator at Ireland and as director of clinical business operations for the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command in Washington, D.C.

“Our organization and the community are lucky to have Dawn join us as we move to becoming an acute care hospital,” said Debbie Molnar, JHSMH chief operating officer.

Check back for a letter from Erckenbrack in the Spring 2009 edition of The Pulse.