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Notes from the President
Hospital leadership in today’s world is always challenging, particularly in California. A leader’s influence and legacy lasts long into the future. Ruthita Fike has served Loma Linda University Medical Center well as the CEO of our hospital system for 10 years. As she now prepares to step down from that role, I want to recognize her significant contribution in helping establish what we know as Loma Linda University Health System today. This hospital network has grown to six individual hospitals under her guidance, each with a carefully focused purpose and strategy. Let me comment on each of these institutions and the legacy Ruthita will leave with us.
Our current Medical Center, the clover-leaf towers completed in 1967, was designated some years ago as the University Hospital, serving primarily adult patients. At that time the adjoining Children’s Hospital was given an identity of its own. Ruthita is now leading the effort to obtain a se Biography of william shakespeare.