Charles F. Johnson

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Charles Johnson, president and CEO of Hallmark Health Corporation, the parent organization of Hallmark Health System (Melrose), announced last week that he would retire June 21.Johnson was CEO of Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford from 1967 to 1997.

Dr. Lindsey spoke to the large gathering then Mr. Charles Johnson, Administrator/CEO of the hospital surprised Dr. Lindsey with a plaque bearing the picture of the three Lindsey physicians and signifying the naming of the hospital surgery area as the Lindsey Surgery Department.

Charles Johnson, Lawrence Memorial CEO for 34 Years, Retires

July 19, 1999

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CHARLES JOHNSON, LAWRENCE MEMORIAL CEO FOR 34 YEARS, RETIRES

Medford, MA (July 19, 1999) - Charles F. Johnson, who led the Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford as president and CEO for nearly 35 years and Hallmark Health Corporation for the past two, was recently honored upon his retirement.

Trustees, physicians and employees joined in honoring Johnson's lifetime achievements in health care management with a series of tributes and receptions.Hallmark trustees and management hosted festivities at Boston's Harvard Club, where among the evening's many highlights was the naming of a conference room for Johnson at Hallmark Health's Lawrence Memorial Campus.

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Hundreds of employees attended a reception at the Lawrence to honor Johnson.As part of the many tributes, Johnson was presented with an inscribed chair and a memory quilt.
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Johnson has left all of us here better people for having learned from and worked under his wisdom and guidance."

The Johnson years will also be commemorated by a series of annual lectures named for Johnson, the first of which was held at the LMH School of Nursing.
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In his 30 years as the Lawrence president and CEO, Johnson led the development of several major projects that helped to establish the Lawrence as a premier community hospital: its first formal educational affiliation with Tufts University School of Medicine; its leadership role in founding the Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization; the development of the Courtyard Nursing Care Center, a 224-bed-post-acute facility on the Lawrence campus; and the recent conversion of the Lawrence Memorial School of Nursing to a joint associate degree program with Regis College in Weston.

Johnson's foresight regarding the effects of increases in managed care and cuts in Medicare reimbursement led him to join with the heads of three local hospitals – Malden, Melrose-Wakefield, and Whidden Memorial – to form Hallmark Health System, the largest independent health care system in Massachusetts and the first to integrate services across four campuses.

Johnson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1958 with a degree in business administration, and completed a Master's Degree in Hospital and Health Care Administration from his alma mater in 1960.After a few years of hospital management experience in his home state of Minnesota, Johnson moved to Massachusetts in 1965, where he signed on as assistant administrator at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.He was made CEO two years later, becoming the third president in the Lawrence's 75-year history.

Hallmark Health is a not-for-profit health system of more than 1200 physicians and 4,600 employees serving an estimated 400,000 residents of 15 communities north of Boston.In addition to its three hospital campuses in Everett, Medford and Melrose, and the Malden Medical Center in Malden, Hallmark includes three home health agencies and hospice care services, a family medicine residency program, a school of nursing, multiple physician group practices and two nursing care centers.More information on Hallmark Health can be found on the World Wide Web at www.hallmarkhealth.org.

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Charles Johnson, Lawrence Memorial CEO for 34 Years, Retires

July 19, 1999

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CHARLES JOHNSON, LAWRENCE MEMORIAL CEO FOR 34 YEARS, RETIRES

Medford, MA (July 19, 1999) - Charles F. Johnson, who led the Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford as president and CEO for nearly 35 years and Hallmark Health Corporation for the past two, was recently honored upon his retirement.

Trustees, physicians and employees joined in honoring Johnson's lifetime achievements in health care management with a series of tributes and receptions.Hallmark trustees and management hosted festivities at Boston's Harvard Club, where among the evening's many highlights was the naming of a conference room for Johnson at Hallmark Health's Lawrence Memorial Campus.

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Hundreds of employees attended a reception at the Lawrence to honor Johnson.As part of the many tributes, Johnson was presented with an inscribed chair and a memory quilt.
...
Johnson has left all of us here better people for having learned from and worked under his wisdom and guidance."

The Johnson years will also be commemorated by a series of annual lectures named for Johnson, the first of which was held at the LMH School of Nursing.
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In his 30 years as the Lawrence president and CEO, Johnson led the development of several major projects that helped to establish the Lawrence as a premier community hospital: its first formal educational affiliation with Tufts University School of Medicine; its leadership role in founding the Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization; the development of the Courtyard Nursing Care Center, a 224-bed-post-acute facility on the Lawrence campus; and the recent conversion of the Lawrence Memorial School of Nursing to a joint associate degree program with Regis College in Weston.

Johnson's foresight regarding the effects of increases in managed care and cuts in Medicare reimbursement led him to join with the heads of three local hospitals - Malden, Melrose-Wakefield, and Whidden Memorial - to form Hallmark Health System, the largest independent health care system in Massachusetts and the first to integrate services across four campuses.

Johnson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1958 with a degree in business administration, and completed a Master's Degree in Hospital and Health Care Administration from his alma mater in 1960.After a few years of hospital management experience in his home state of Minnesota, Johnson moved to Massachusetts in 1965, where he signed on as assistant administrator at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.He was made CEO two years later, becoming the third president in the Lawrence's 75-year history.

Hallmark Health is a not-for-profit health system of more than 1200 physicians and 4,600 employees serving an estimated 400,000 residents of 15 communities north of Boston.In addition to its three hospital campuses in Everett, Medford and Melrose, and the Malden Medical Center in Malden, Hallmark includes three home health agencies and hospice care services, a family medicine residency program, a school of nursing, multiple physician group practices and two nursing care centers.More information on Hallmark Health can be found on the World Wide Web at www.hallmarkhealth.org.

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Carl Johnson, Administrator of US DOT and PHMSA (Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration) gave a keynote address and spoke of the impressive safety record of the more than 1-million hazmat shipments per day in the US.