A message from JR Robert, Swedish COO
Swedish,
We have concluded the Swedish Ballard COO search. Kasia Konieczny will become the permanent chief operating officer of the Ballard campus, effective May 13.
Kasia comes to Swedish from St. Peter Hospital in the Southwest Washington Region of Providence St. Joseph Health where she has been leading Strategy, as well as operations for Oncology (the service area’s largest service line), Digestive Health, Women’s and Children’s, and Accountable Health. During her tenure, she has developed the region’s surgical robotics, advance care planning and accountable community health programs, and orchestrated the purchase and integration of multispecialty clinics and an ambulatory surgery center. Her experience includes strategic business development, and management of process improvement and operational improvement initiatives.
Kasia says she is thrilled to have the opportunity to join the Swedish team and Ballard community. She has worked with Swedish caregivers and physicians while collaborating on projects, and feels a natural connection to our mission of improving the health and well-being of everyone we serve. “The mission calls us to create an exceptional experience for our patients and also to provide a great work environment for our caregivers,” Kasia says. “That’s what’s exciting to me about Swedish.”
In her more than two decades in the healthcare field, she has worked with acute care service lines, ambulatory surgery, and specialty and primary care clinics. She also has partnered with employed and community physicians, and hospital and community boards.
Prior to her strategic and operations roles at PSJH, she served as director of Finance for the Southwest Region of Providence Health & Services and as director of Planning, Quality Improvement and Decision Support at Mason General Hospital in Shelton. Kasia’s strong background in finance and decision support extends to more than a decade at PHS, MultiCare Health System and Franciscan Health System.
Kasia earned both a master’s degree in Health Administration and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington. She also earned a Process Improvement Advisor certificate and completed a Managing Hospital Operations program at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.
Please welcome Kasia to her new role at Swedish.
On behalf of the Swedish executive team, I would like to sincerely thank Dylan Carroll for his leadership since January as Ballard’s interim COO. He will continue to have operational responsibility for our Swedish Mill Creek and Swedish Redmond ambulatory care centers. He also will retain his operational leadership position for acute imaging services (excluding interventional radiology) across Swedish.
Best,
JR
Jeffery “JR” Robert, MHA
Chief Operating Officer
Swedish Health Services