The Children’s Hospital CEO announces retirement
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| Dori Biester, PhD, RN |
The Children’s Hospital board of directors will begin the process of selecting a new president and CEO of Colorado’s only hospital exclusively dedicated to pediatrics. Their goal is to have the new CEO in place by the year’s end. Biester will remain in her current role until her successor begins.
“ I arrived at this difficult decision after much reflection about how to balance the best interests of our great organization and the children entrusted to our care with what I know to be important in my own life,” said Biester. “At the conclusion of that process, I realized the need to step aside so that my successor will be afforded the time to get to know who we are before navigating us into our future on the Fitzsimons campus in October of 2007.”
During her tenure as Children’s President and CEO, Biester led the organization successfully through a sustained period of unprecedented programmatic growth while enhancing the strength of The Children’s Hospital’s many community partnerships. In addition, she presided over consistently strong financial performance and increasingly strong national rankings and helped Children’s achieve standard-setting staff retention rates.
This strong record culminated with her successful collaboration with the board of directors on the decision to relocate and build a world-class pediatric hospital as the centerpiece of The Children’s Hospital’s ever-expanding regional network of pediatric care.
“Dr. Biester has served The Children’s Hospital with distinction,” said Don Elliman, chairman of The Children’s Hospital board of directors. “She has truly improved the lives of countless children and put The Children’s Hospital on an exciting path to the future. We offer her our profound thanks and warm wishes for a fulfilling next chapter in her life.”
