TERRI DAY
- Undergraduate degree in accounting from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona; she is also a certified public accountant.
- Husband, Tim, and children, Andy and Nicole, live in Kettering.
- Joined Kettering Health Network in 2010 as executive vice president of operations; previously worked as vice president of Adventist Health in Roseville, Calif., vice president of hospital finance with financial oversight for six Adventist hospitals in central and southern California; and chief financial officer for Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center.
BY THE NUMBERS
The faith-based, nonprofit Kettering Health Network operates eight hospitals: Kettering Medical Center; Grandview in Dayton; Sycamore in Miamisburg; Southview in Centerville; Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia; Fort Hamilton in Hamilton and Soin in Beavercreek.
2,000: Physicians
10,000: Total workforce
56,182: Patient discharges
203,230: Emergency department visits
932,434: Outpatient visits
$29.9 million: Free or discounted health services
$1 billion: Annual operating revenue
SOURCE: Kettering Health Network for 2011
Terri Day, a longtime executive in the faith-based Adventist heath care system in California and Ohio, was named Monday as the first woman president to lead the four-decade old Kettering Health Network.
Day’s ascension to one of the top health care posts in the Miami Valley puts women at or near the top at Kettering, Premier Health Partners and Children’s Medical Center of Dayton.
Day, 52, served the past two years as Kettering’s executive vice president of operations and assumes the president’s title, while Fred Manchur, the president since 2010, will retain his role as the network’s chief executive officer.
Day will help manage a company with $1 billion in annual operating revenue and about 10,000 employees at eight hospitals and more than 75 outpatient facilities in Butler, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble and Warren counties. She said her new role will be to carry out the network’s patient-centered mission.
“The future requires that our operations and service lines be designed to support ease of access and coordination of care throughout our entire network,” Day said. “We are a faith-based organization that puts patients at the center of care. Operating as one network means that we will be better able to care for patients who trust us to meet their health care needs throughout their lifetime.”
Day joins these three local women health care executives: Jennifer Swenson, president of Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton and the first woman president within the Kettering Health Network; Eloise Broner, whom Premier named as president and CEO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton in May; and Deborah Feldman, president and CEO of Children’s Medical Center since July.
Manchur said Day brings strong organizational and financial skills to position Kettering to “operate as one network.”
“This strategy will help to effectively utilize the strength of our network, so that patients will continue to have the same exceptional experience at each of our hospitals and outpatient facilities,” he said.
Day said the Kettering network, founded in 1964, must grow and change to meet the patients’ needs.
“We always are looking at what care a population needs and what we need to provide that care, whether it’s outpatient, inpatient, ancillary services,” she said. “We have to look at population growth. One of the things we’re really looking at right now is what diseases we have within our direct area, how we can provide wellness and how we can help manage population and the cost of health care across Dayton.”
Day jointed the Kettering network in 2010 as executive vice president of operations. She has previously served as vice president of Adventist Health in Roseville, Calif., as vice president of hospital finance with oversight for six Adventist hospitals in central and southern California, and as the chief financial officer for the Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center.
The ranks of women executives in health-care continue to grow, though nationally only 4 percent of health care company CEOs are women and 18 percent of hospital CEOs are women, according to a 2010 Fortune 500 survey. Nationally, 73 percent of health care and medical service managers are women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Day said the steady growth of women executives in health care is a result that “companies now are probably much more familiar with balance of work life both for males and females at all ages. I think that helps make the commitment to move to the levels that we’re talking about.
“I think there will be more women as women are able to balance things more,” she added.
Bryan Bucklew, president and CEO of the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association, said the increase of women executives reflects an effort to recruit talented candidates.
“The focus here locally has always been on getting the best person into the job, and we’re lucky to have well-qualified women moving into these positions,” he said. “This is a natural fruition that these individuals reached by running major projects and major service lines at these hospitals.”
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