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Vice President, Leadership Development Appointed at Catholic Health East

June 22, 2007

Anita K. Jensen

Catholic Health East (CHE), one of the nation's leading Catholic health care systems, announced the recent appointment of Anita K. Jensen as vice president, leadership development.

In this position, Jensen will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive approach for leadership development at CHE and regional health corporation/ joint operating agreement (RHC/JOA) levels that leverages leadership initiatives within the RHCs/JOAs themselves and is fully integrated with mission formation and board governance. This will include competency based assessment, selection and development of CHE executives, planning of CHE's governance and management leadership conferences, development of a leadership curriculum and other best-practices resources, and executive orientation.

"Anita has an outstanding track record of building and enhancing the leadership skills of executive teams," said Bob Stanek, president and CEO of Catholic Health East. "With the critical and complex challenges faced by all of us in the health care industry, the quality of successful leadership has never been more essential to the future of our ministry. We look forward to Anita's expertise, guidance and creativity as we move to the next level of leadership formation at CHE."

Before joining CHE, Jensen most recently served as first vice president, head of executive leadership and development, at Merrill Lynch, where she designed, developed and managed the first firm-wide talent management process for key executives, and developed the Leadership 360 process and leadership education and development for the firm's top 1400 senior executives. Prior to that, she held similar positions at JPMorgan Chase, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Citigroup.

"I am thrilled to be given the opportunity to be part of a mission-based organization like CHE. I look forward to bringing my experience to bear on enhancing the leadership capabilities of CHE in order to ensure our ongoing success and growth as one of the nations' leading Catholic health care systems," said Jensen.

Jensen holds a PhD in human and organizational systems, from Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California. In addition, she holds degrees in organizational development, social work and psychology.

Jensen replaces Peter Giammalvo, Ph.D., who is currently the chief learning officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Catholic Health East is a multi-institutional Catholic health system, which is co-sponsored by 12 religious congregations and Hope Ministries, a Public Juridic Person within Catholic Health East. Based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, the system provides the means to ensure the continuation of the Catholic identity and operational strength of the Sponsors' health ministries, which are located within 11 eastern states from Maine to Florida. The System includes acute care hospitals, free-standing and hospital-based skilled nursing facilities, residential facilities, free-standing behavioral health and rehabilitation facilities, and numerous ambulatory and community based health services. Catholic Health East facilities employs approximately 50,000 full time employees as partners in ministry.

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