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St. Joseph Hospital has named a new chief executive.
Dawn Rudolph, chief operating officer of Dupont Hospital, will take the reins at St. Joseph on Dec. 1. St. Joseph and Dupont are part of the Lutheran Health Network.
Rudolph will replace Kirk Ray, who left St. Joseph in October to become CEO at DeKalb Memorial Hospital.
A native of the area, Rudolph is a 1989 graduate of Indiana University and got her master’s degree in business administration from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2007. She’s been COO at Dupont since 2006.
“Dawn exemplifies the traits of the network’s senior leadership and has distinguished herself in progressively more complex roles,” Mike Schatzlein, CEO of Lutheran Health Network and Dupont, said in a statement.
“She’s an expert in customer service and lean engineering. I have great confidence in St. Joe’s future under her leadership.”
Rudolph started her career at St. Joseph and worked her way from patient registration to administrator of the ambulatory surgery center at the downtown Fort Wayne hospital.
She moved to Dupont in 2000 and helped hire more than 200 employees before the hospital’s opening in 2001.
“To return to St. Joseph Hospital is a wonderful homecoming for me,” Rudolph said in a statement. “I am excited to serve as the CEO, to continue the hospital’s strong mission and grow its services for our patients.
“Because of its central location, St. Joe remains in a great position to be the hospital of choice for patients in and around the heart of the city who are in need of specialized care,” she said.
