Arnie Kimmel was hired earlier this month as Franciscan St. James Health’s new chief executive officer to turn around the struggling south suburban health care network.
After all, Kimmel, 67, has experience returning underperforming hospitals to profitability.
Under his watch, he said, MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island — where he was CEO from 2006 to 2009 — went from losing $12 million annually to breaking even within a year…Please click here to read Casey Toner’s story in the Southtown Star.