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Trinity Health President of Health Networks Mike Slubowski is one of only 50 health care executives nationwide to be honored with the American College of Healthcare Executives’ Distinguished Service Award.

This award recognizes contributions to health care management excellence, including volunteer activities that demonstrate leadership and contributions to furthering the health care management profession. Recipients were notified of the award in June. The American College of Healthcare Executives is an international professional society of more than 30,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations.

“This award is well deserved. We’re proud of Mike’s many accomplishments at Trinity Health and in the health care industry overall,” said Joseph R. Swedish, president and CEO of Trinity Health. “Mike’s an innovator. Many health care executives are talking about creating health networks that put patients at the center of care, but Mike is making that happen in Trinity Health communities across the country.”

Slubowski was named President of Health Networks in 2009 as part of Trinity Health’s strategy to position itself for the expected changes under health reform. In this role, he provides executive leadership to ambulatory care services, physician practices, home care, and senior services/long-term care for Trinity Health, which represent 50% of the organization’s revenues. He leads the development of market-based Accountable Health Networks by aligning and integrating Trinity Health’s continuum of services to position the organization for pay-for-performance. He also leads initiatives to align physicians and hospitals through clinical integration to deliver the best care in the most effective and efficient manner possible.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health is the fourth-largest Catholic health care system in the country. Based in Novi, Mich., Trinity Health operates 47 acute-care hospitals, 379 outpatient facilities, 33 long-term care facilities, 20 Medicare-certified home health agencies and 15 Medicare-certified hospice programs in nine states. Employing more than 47,000 full-time staff, Trinity Health reported $7.0 billion in unrestricted revenue in fiscal year 2009. As a not-for-profit health system, Trinity Health reinvests its profits back into the community through programs to serve the poor and uninsured, manage chronic conditions like diabetes, health education and promotion initiatives, and outreach for the elderly. In fiscal 2009, this included nearly $400 million in such community benefits. For more information about Trinity Health, visit www.trinity-health.org or become a fan of the Trinity Health Facebook page at http://tinyurl.com/ylpm3np.