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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Brooke Tyson Hynes
Vice President, Public Affairs
617-636-0205, btysonhynes@tufts-nemc.org
Tufts Medical Center Announces New
Chief Operating Officer
Boston – November 14, 2007- Tufts Medical Center announced today that Margaret Vosburgh will join the organization as chief operating officer. Vosburgh has extensive leadership experience, including more than 30 years in health care operations, academic medicine and nursing.
Margaret most recently led the daily operations for Long Island Jewish Hospital, part of the Northshore-LIJ Health System, the nation’s third largest not-for-profit secular health care system. Margaret has also served as executive director for the Swedish Health System in Seattle, Wash. and as vice president of center operations at Albany Medical Center in Albany, N.Y.
“Margaret is an exceptional leader,” said Ellen Zane, president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center. “Her energy is contagious and her talent for coordinating the operations of complex health systems is first rate. We are so pleased she is bringing her talents to Tufts Medical Center. Her drive will allow the organization to further improve upon patient care, operational efficiency, physician and patient satisfaction and increased growth and profitability.”
Vosburgh has an MBA from the University of Southern California and was a Wharton Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. In addition, she has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Nursing and worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in critical care.
Vosburgh has been honored in Two Thousand Notable American Women since 1990 and Who’s Who in American Nursing since 1989. She has lectured both nationally and internationally and published numerous articled on organizational design, management techniques and outcomes quantification.
About Tufts Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children:
Tufts Medical Center is an exceptional, not-for-profit, 451-bed academic medical center that is home to both a full-service hospital for adults and the Floating Hospital for Children. Conveniently located in downtown Boston, the Medical Center is the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. Founded in 1796 as the Boston Dispensary, Tufts Medical Center is the oldest permanent medical facility in New England and one of the first hospitals in the nation. For more than 200 years, Tufts Medical Center has pioneered innovative programs in clinical care and research and is a recognized leader in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, organ transplantation and pediatrics.
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