Career administrator to head FGH

By Mary Wade Burnside
Times West Virginian

FAIRMONT June 05, 2009 02:23 am

— Robert C. Marquardt, a career hospital administrator with nearly 21 years of experience at a Michigan hospital and a master’s degree from Yale University, has been selected the new president and chief executive officer of Fairmont General Hospital.
Marquardt, 56, currently CEO of Saint Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs in Ashland, Pa., will begin his new job July 21, more than half a year after the resignation of his predecessor, Albert Pilkington III, who took a job as director of West Virginia University Hospitals-East in Martinsburg.
“We’re excited by the opportunity to come be there to be part of the community and help the hospital grow and prosper,” Marquardt said Thursday.
Mike Sengewalt, the hospital’s chief financial officer, said the hospital’s board of directors met Monday to decide between two candidates and settled on Marquardt, who accepted Wednesday. Sengewalt, interim CEO who also had thrown his hat in the ring for the permanent job, said he was pleased with the decision.
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