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Published on: 3/6/2007
Last Visited: 3/6/2007
After five years as CEO of the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis (IHB), Dr. Terril Hart is retiring next month, to be succeeded by Dr. Patrick Rock.
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Hart became CEO of the IHB in 2002, after Interim Director Penny Scheffler left amid protests and controversy surrounding the firings of three prominent IHB doctors.
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According to Hart, the organization is ready for a much smoother change in leadership this time around.
"The responsibility of a CEO or Executive Director is to plan for their own succession, and I think I've done that well… you can do it in a way that doesn't set the organization back.I think IHB has a history of making crisis transitions, and we wanted to avoid that," Hart said
Hart considers the turnaround in the IHB's image over the last five years to be his most satisfying memory as CEO.
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Rock has many supporters within the Minneapolis Native community, not the least of whom is Hart himself.
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Hart described IHB's current vision as being born out of a retreat in the Spring of 2006, with over half of the IHB staff in attendance.