Peaks & Valleys

After weathering storm, Poudre Valley determines role in health mix

“The current health-care systems are broken, damaged. They aren’t working effectively.”
That’s the word from Poudre Valley Hospital’s new CEO, Michael Marini, who, in taking the helm, has inherited an organization recently battered by lawsuits, layoffs and labor disputes.
But that wave, at least, has crested. By the time Marini took over as CEO June 17, a lawsuit concerning the hospital’s privatization had been decided in PVH’s favor. (In the second part of the lawsuit, the board of directors of the Poudre Health Services District is appealing a ruling concerning whether…