UCHealth taps Schock to lead new hospital in Greeley

GREELEY — Aurora-based UCHealth announced Thursday that Marilyn Schock, the health-care organization’s chief operating officer for Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland and Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, will be president of UCHealth Greeley Hospital when it opens in late 2018.

Schock, who has 25 years of health-care leadership experience in Northern Colorado, was hired by UCHealth in August 2015. Prior to that, Schock was the CEO of Banner Health’s McKee Medical Center in Loveland.

Schock’s new position is effective Oct. 24, but she will continue as chief operating officer at the two hospitals until a replacement is hired.

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The UCHealth Greeley Hospital will provide 53 inpatient beds with room to grow and will include an intensive-care unit, an emergency department, operating rooms, advanced cardiology services and a birth center.

The new hospital will be the anchor of a $185 million health campus project that will be built on approximately 22 acres southeast of U.S. Highway 34 and 71st Avenue.

The campus also will feature a health center with outpatient services. Schock will work closely with leaders from UCHealth’s medical group – Colorado Health Medical Group – as that project gets underway.

“Marilyn is a talented and proven leader who never loses sight of what matters most — the patients,” Kevin Unger, the CEO and president of MCR and PVH, said in a prepared statement. “She is an absolutely perfect fit for this position and the tasks that lie ahead, and I am thrilled to work with her.”

“It’s all about providing excellent care close to home,” Schock said. “We have a lot of people from Greeley and throughout Weld County, including the eastern plains, who currently utilize our services. Through the new hospital and health center, we will be able to provide a higher level of services in Greeley, closer to patients’ homes and families.”

Schock earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy and a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis on health-care strategy, both from Colorado State University.

Her career began as an occupational therapist at McKee in 1986. She was the director of rehabilitation at the hospital from 1991 to 1999. She then served in several leadership roles at Banner Health facilities leading up to her placement as chief executive officer at McKee in 2009.

UCHealth consists of Memorial Hospital, Poudre Valley Hospital, Medical Center of the Rockies, University of Colorado Hospital, Broomfield Hospital, Grandview Hospital, Colorado Health Medical Group and a network of more than 40 medical clinics serving the Rocky Mountain West.

Steadman Hawkins joins UCHealth

UCHealth also announced on Tuesday that Steadman Hawkins Clinic-Denver, a sports performance and advanced orthopedic services group, has joined UCHealth and the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Already, surgeons at Steadman Hawkins, UCHealth and the Department of Orthopedics at CU are performing procedures including stem-cell therapies, orthobiologics, innovative devices and clinical trials.

UCHealth is building a health center off Inverness Drive in Englewood to provide a sports-performance program including physical and occupational therapy, surgeries, imaging and clinic appointments. The program is designed to maximize performance and injury prevention for athletes at all levels.

The health center will consist of a 90,000-square- foot medical office building and surgery center with four operating rooms and additional treatment facilities; orthopedic clinic rooms along with advanced imaging, including MRI and radiology, and a rehabilitation and sports-performance training center that includes human-motion analytics and injury-prevention training.