March 29, 2024
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New Penobscot Valley Hospital CEO starts job

LINCOLN – Penobscot Valley Hospital’s new chief executive officer starts his new job today, hoping to continue the hospital’s ambitious renovation program while strengthening its community ties.

“We are a community asset,” David Shannon said Thursday. “The community actually owns the hospital, and the board of directors is really the hospital’s initial connection to the community. During our interview process, they [members of the hospital board of directors] really expressed an interest in the community becoming more aware of what our hospital is all about.”

Board members voted unanimously Monday to have Shannon, 49, of Lincoln succeed outgoing CEO Ronald Victory, who is retiring after 21 years. Salary figures were not immediately available.

Board Chairman Fred Woodman, who is also the SAD 30 superintendent, said that as the hospital’s chief financial officer for the past 13 years, Shannon is a good choice to lead the hospital into its next phase of growth.

Shannon “already knows the organization well,” Woodman said in a statement. “He will continue to develop and grow all that Ron Victory has established during his long and successful CEO tenure.”

Prior to coming to Lincoln, Shannon worked as a chief financial officer for several hospitals and health services in Pennsylvania. He is a native of Harrisburg, Pa.

Shannon’s most immediate priorities include reviewing initial plans to renovate the emergency room and reorganizing the ambulance service as part of assembling a master facilities plan for the board to consider, he said. PVH is the area’s sole ambulance service provider.

An expansion doubling the size of PVH’s surgical suites is almost finished, while renovated waiting rooms, labor and delivery suites, switchboard and patient registration and laboratory workroom areas have been completed over the last two years or are being planned. The total price tag is almost $5 million.

Shannon hopes to join an organization of state hospitals that is pushing the state for late Medicaid payments while rebuilding the hospital’s administrative staff. PVH is owed about $2.5 million, he said.

Work force recruitment and retention will be another area on which he will focus while meeting with hospital staff to gather their input, he said.

“I am excited about the job,” he said. “I have a lot I’d like to try to do.”


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