Article: KATEN-BAHENSKY NEW UW HOSPITAL CEO DECIDING HOW TO USE 42 ACRES THE HOSPITAL BOUGHT ON THE FAR EAST SIDE IS AMONG THE TASKS FACING HER.(FRONT)

Byline: DAVID WAHLBERG dwahlberg@madison.com 608-252-6125

Improving the quality and safety of health care is the top priority of Donna Katen-Bahensky, who Wednesday was named chief executive officer of UW Hospital.

"We have to prove to the external world that we can be trusted to take care of people," said Katen-Bahensky, the current CEO at University of Iowa Hospital. She will begin her Madison job Feb. 4.

Deciding how UW Hospital should grow - including how to use 42 acres the hospital purchased two years ago on the Far East Side - also will be front and center, Katen-Bahensky said.

"The hospital is pretty land locked," she said. ...

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