{"id":5295,"date":"2018-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prd-www.mccdn.io\/vitals\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:59:42","slug":"poltawsky-joins-mary-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updates-www.mccdn.io\/vitals\/poltawsky-joins-mary-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Bridge Children&#8217;s Hospital &amp; Health Network welcomes new president","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Poltawsky joined the MultiCare executive team as president and market leader of Mary Bridge Children\u2019s Hospital &amp; Health Network on July 9, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He comes to MultiCare after serving as President of American Family Children\u2019s Hospital and Senior Vice President of UW Health, Wisconsin for the past 10 years. Under his leadership, American Family Children\u2019s Hospital grew into a nationally ranked, full-service pediatric hospital that claims a competitive market share in Madison, Wisconsin and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Poltawsky developed programs in partnership with physician leadership and hospital staff including surgical services, a children\u2019s heart program, a low-dose radiation interventional suite, a level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a mother\/baby care service line. He also created regional outreach clinics with community health system partners.<\/p>\n<p>Poltawsky enhanced fundraising at the hospital as well, overseeing an award-winning $16-million capital campaign to increase inpatient capacity during an economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>Poltawsky\u2019s experience also includes Administrator at Peyton Manning Children\u2019s Hospital in Indianapolis and Director and Vice President at Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta. He began his career at Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff possesses a positive, approachable style that will be a great match for Mary Bridge and MultiCare,\u201d says Florence Chang, MultiCare\u2019s Executive Vice President &amp; Chief Operating Officer. \u201cHis vision for Mary Bridge is to solidify it as one of the best and safest children\u2019s hospitals in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Poltawsky brings a wealth of experience in children&#8217;s hospital growth and leadership to the Mary Bridge family.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mary Bridge Children&#039;s Hospital &amp; 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