C. Duane Dauner (California Hospital Association)
The healthcare neighborhood is mourning the decline of C. Duane Dauner, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association for a few decades ahead of his retirement in 2017, who died in a automobile crash on Monday at the age of eighty.
In accordance to Desert Sunlight, Duaner was driving eastbound alongside Freeway 74 South of Palm Desert when the 1957 Ford he was driving veered off the edge of the highway. Officers who have been dispatched to the scene identified the car overturned down a steep embankment for “unknown explanations.” Duaner was not putting on a seatbelt and died at the scene.
Dauner helmed the CHA, which signifies about four hundred hospitals and well being programs, from 1985 to 2017. Ahead of that, he served as president and CEO of the Missouri Hospital Association from 1975-1985, and was CEO of the Kansas Hospital Association from 1965 to 1975.
An obituary posted by the American Hospital Association described Dauner as a “consensus builder” who played a pivotal position in the enhancement of the Inexpensive Care Act. He also took aspect in the enhancement of the California Medicaid reform plan choice, and aided to make an arrangement among CHA and the state’s a few regional healthcare facility associations.
In 2018, he obtained AHA’s Distinguished Service Award “for his devotion to the well being and effectively-becoming of all People and the institution of a high-good quality, effective, affected individual- and neighborhood-centric healthcare facility area.”
His involvement with the AHA dates back to 1979, when he served on the Council on Federal Relations and then the AHA Basic Council. During his tenure he served on quite a few committees and process forces.
The AHA credited Dauner’s management with improving upon care good quality for people in California’s hospitals, as effectively as a gradual amount of well being expenditure advancement. In 2013, CHA and its affiliated regional associations developed the statewide Hospital Excellent Institute, the goa lof which is to advance the condition as a nationwide leader in protection and good quality advancement.
In addition to the CHA and many other condition healthcare facility associations, he served on quite a few AHA and American University of Health care Executives boards and committees, together with the board of the Coalition to Defend America’s Wellness Care. He was a receiver of the Gold Medal Award, the ACHE’s greatest honor, as effectively as awards from the Associates in Care Foundation, Nationwide Wellness Foundation, UCLA and Wellness Care Executives of Southern California.
Dauner is survived by his spouse, Diane, a son and daughter, and a number of grandchildren.
ON THE History
“California’s hospitals have misplaced a accurate winner with the tragic and premature passing of C. Duane Dauner,” stated CHA President and CEO Carmela Coyle. “For additional than a few decades, Duane steered California’s hospitals as a result of some of the most pivotal moments in our state’s well being care evolution.
“Duane’s unwavering devotion to hospitals was in his DNA,” she stated. “Even in retirement, he chose to spend his time serving on the boards of a number of healthcare facility programs across the condition. For those of us who had the good fortune to know and get the job done with Duane, he will often be remembered as a type and thoughtful person who never ever failed to request about your relatives, and often remembered the smallest details.”
“Number of people today have carried out as considerably as Duane Dauner in supporting hospitals and well being programs have out their sacred mission in caring for people and the communities they serve,” stated AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack. “And, couple of people today have aided mentor and produce the subsequent era of healthcare leaders, together with me, as Duane has carried out.”
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