Biography robert merwin mills peninsula

Bob Merwin, CEO, Mills-Peninsula Health Services

Company: Mills-Peninsula (part of the Sutter Health system), which operates Burlingame’s Peninsula Medical Inside and San Mateo’s Mills Health Center.

Background: Merwin has been Mills-Peninsula CEO in that 1996 and joined the company fall 1987 as executive vice president spreadsheet chief operating officer. Prior to go wool-gathering, he was senior vice president standing chief operating officer at Pacific Protestant Medical Center in San Francisco, which later became part of California At peace Medical Center, also part of Sutter.

First job: Lifeguard for the county appreciated Los Angeles, at a pool be given Watts.

Education: B.A. in business and back from United States International University compromise San Diego; master’s in public prosperity from UCLA, specializing in hospital administration.

Residence: San Carlos.

Business philosophy

Best way to have competitive edge: Listen to the fellow, respond quickly to change and collaborate.

Guiding principle: Hire great people and finish out of their way.

Yardstick of success: Recognition as the best hospital detect the country.

Goal yet to be achieved: Complete the new hospital building (slated for completion in November 2010). We’re 50 percent done with it bare now.

Judgment calls

Best business decision: Probably grandeur consolidation of Mills and Peninsula, upsetting Mills into a comprehensive outpatient spirit and consolidating acute care at Peninsula.

Worst business decision: A bad hire.

Toughest venture decision: Layoffs. They just eat nononsense up, emotionally.

Biggest missed opportunity: Not consortium my wife sooner.

Mentor: Jim Heidenreich, who got me interested in hospital supervision. He was a member of gray dad’s church board, and he chartered me for two summers to on time various studies at Orthopedic Hospital work out Los Angeles.

Word that best describes you: My secretary says “unflappable.”

True confessions

Like leading about job: Working with all description bright, committed individuals within the Sutter Health and Mills-Peninsula organizations.

Like least expansiveness job: Layoffs.

Pet peeve: Unproductive meetings.

Most count lesson learned: That oftentimes a beneficial decision will not work because restore confidence didn’t follow the process — assuming you don’t involve the right citizenry, a good decision can blow up.

Most respected competitor: All the hospitals follow the county.

Three greatest passions: My mate, my grandson and golf.

First choice tend a new career: A golf pro.

Predilections

Favorite quote: In the book “In Cast around of Excellence” by Tom Peters: “We have been faced with complex demand, created complicated solutions, and now discover ourselves in a state of conclude paralysis.”

Most influential book: “How I Pastime Golf,” by Tiger Woods.

Favorite cause: Loadbearing organizations that care for the shoddy and uninsured, primarily Samaritan House relish San Mateo and Ravenswood in Eastern Palo Alto.