Lewis County Hospital District 1, which does business as Arbor Health in East Lewis County, has announced the appointment of a new chief executive officer.
Robert Mach, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was selected for the role of CEO.
Mach, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, initially went into the medical field as a radiology technologist. He worked his way up the ranks in hospital-based radiology management roles first in Tennessee and then Vermont before moving into senior-level hospital administration positions, according to a news release from Arbor Health. .
He served as the chief operating officer at the Littleton Regional Healthcare Hospital in Littleton, New Hampshire, the CEO for Select Specialty Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, and most recently the CEO for the Ascension Borgess medical system’s Borgess Allegan Hospital and Borgess Pipp Hospital, both in Allegan County, Michigan.
Mach will start as Arbor Health CEO on June 19. He and his wife, Amy, are currently in the process of moving their households across the country.
“Amy and I are excited to become part of the East Lewis County community, with its rural lifestyle, natural beauty and down-to-earth good people,” Mach state in the news release. “I am grateful to be joining an outstanding healthcare organization and team that treats every patient and each other as family members. Amy and I are drawn to a community with a culture where you know all your neighbors and East Lewis County truly offers us that.”
Arbor Health is the parent organization of Morton Hospital, the Rapid Care Clinic in Morton and primary care clinics in Morton, Mossyrock, Randle and Packwood. The organization has been operating under the administration of Interim CEO Michael Lieb, of Dallas, Texas, since Feb. 24 when former CEO Leianne Everett moved out of the area.
