Franklin Community Health Network drafts new COO
Miriam Leonard, a health care executive with over 20 years of experience, has been appointed COO of Franklin Community Health Network.
Leonard currently works for MaineHealth at the system level, where she is vice president of value improvement. In that role, she leads the organization’s performance improvement efforts and assists MaineHealth members with similar initiatives.
Prior to holding that position, Leonard worked at Maine Medical Center and since 1993 has held various executive positions there. She was named vice president of operations at the Portland-based hospital in 2001 and worked for a year in 2012 as vice president of special projects before joining MaineHealth at the system level in 2013.
“I’m excited to be stepping into this role at this time,” said Leonard in a prepared statement. “Though rural health care organizations face challenges everywhere, I see so many strengths in this organization.”
Timothy Churchill, CEO of Western Maine Health in Norway and the interim CEO at Franklin, appointed Leonard to the position and will continue in his role as interim CEO, an approach endorsed by the FCHN board of trustees.
“We have made good progress working with Tim on setting a strategic direction for the organization, and it makes sense at this stage to keep some continuity and have Tim remain in this role,” Clinton Boothby, chair of the FCHN board of trustees, said in a statement. “But there is no doubt that we need an experienced executive leading the organization day-to-day, and we get that with Miriam’s appointment.”
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