Becker's Healthcare December 5, 2024
During his six years as president and CEO of Manitowoc, Wis.-based Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Sponsored Ministries, Scott McConnaha has overseen significant strides in systemizing the organization.
The health system was, as he describes it, “a very strict holding company,” with a hospital and nursing home in Nebraska, a hospital and nursing home in Wisconsin and its largest acute-care facility in Zanesville, Ohio.
“As a system office we tended to watch them [the facilities] operate individually, and really only involve ourselves when there were big issues on the line,” Mr. McConnaha told Becker’s.
Today, employees in most of the system are on a single payroll system. Additionally, Franciscan has formed a capital project committee — comprising the CEO and...