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| December 2007 |
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Colusa Regional Medical Center, Caring for Our Community |
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CEO RECEIVES STATE AWARD Dale A. Kirby, Chief Executive Officer of Colusa Regional Medical Center in Colusa, California, is the 2007 recipient of the Rural Community Leadership Award of the California State Rural Health Association. “The Rural Community Leader Award is given each year to an individual who has made a significant contribution to advancing rural health at the local or regional level,” explained Kiki Nocella, President Elect of CSRHA.
The award also sighted Kirby’s contributions to several local and regional health organizations, including as a founding director of Healthy Kids/Health Future, a non-profit organization that provides low cost health insurance to underprivileged children within the four-county region of Colusa, El Dorado, Sacramento and Yuba counties. He serves on the board of directors of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, which represents 190 hospitals in our region, and was appointed to serve as a delegate to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Health Information Technology Forum held in Los Angeles.
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Kirby was
selected as this year’s award recipient for his leadership in
guiding Colusa Regional Medical Center through one of the most
difficult periods in its 130 year history. Following a 1999
bankruptcy filing and 2001 change of ownership, Kirby lead CRMC to
become one of northern California’s most successful rural hospital
and health systems.