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Catherine Disch
Corporate Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer, TMC
Hospital Hill
Catherine Disch serves as the executive vice president of the
Truman Medical Centers Corporation and chief operating officer of the
Hospital Hill facility. She provides system-wide
oversight for budgeting, major system integration, directs day-to-day
operations of all inpatient and outpatient services, emergency
department visits, and all ancillary and support services.
Disch has more than 30 years of healthcare experience and nearly 20
years of health care leadership experience. An accomplished corporate strategist, her expertise
includes finance, budgeting & program development.
Before joining TMC in 1999, Disch served as chief operating officer of Hennepin County
Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn., where she had
significant impact on organizational improvement and growth. She
reconfigured operations producing cost savings of $5+ million, expanded
outpatient clinic activity, developed comprehensive total quality
management system and implemented new and expanded programs.
Before her tenure at Hennepin County Medical Center, Disch served as
administrator of ambulatory services at the
University of Texas Medical Branch where she established new satellite
clinic sites for Ophthalmology and Psychiatry services, expansion of
OB/GYN services by adding an antepartum fetal testing unit, renovation
of all existing waiting rooms, and initiated renovation of the
outpatient pharmacy unit.
Disch received her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and her
master's in business administration
from the College of St. Thomas. She has received a certificate in
Medical Records Administration from Seattle University and is a
registered Medical Records Administrator. She served as adjunct
professor of Public Administration at Hamline University and has been a
National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems fellow. She is active as a
board member of the Swope Ridge Geriatric Center and
the Behavioral Health Network.