St. Luke's Health System, based in Boise, announced Wednesday that President and CEO Ed Dahlberg intends to retire by March 2010. Dahlberg, 60, is a 23-year veteran with the nonprofit health-care organization. The St. Luke's Health System board of directors has formed a committee to assist with transition planning and facilitate the recruitment of his replacement.
St. Luke's Health System includes the main hospital in Boise, one in Meridian, Magic Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls and the Wood River Medical Center just south of Ketchum, as well as two breast cancer detection centers and the Mountain States Tumor Institutes in Nampa and Fruitland. As well there is St. Luke's Eagle Medical Plaza.
The process of selecting a new president and CEO for the 800-bed health system is expected to take at least a year. St. Luke's stated that Dahlberg will assist the new CEO with his or her transition.
"Ed Dahlberg has been an exceptional leader for St. Luke's and for this community, providing decades of service and stability to our organization," said St. Luke's board Chairman Skip Oppenheimer. "While it will be difficult to fill his shoes, Ed has graciously given us a generous timeline to plan this transition, and we have enlisted the help of a broad range of individuals to assist us with the important process of identifying his successor."
St. Luke's stated that it will name an executive search firm to screen potential candidates. Input will be gathered from the various St. Luke's boards of directors, physicians, administrative staff and community representatives who serve on advisory committees in the organization.
