Health System to Lose Two Leaders This Fall

DAYTON – Leadership changes are in the works for the Columbia County Health System. Board Chair Ted Paterson and interim CEO Jon Smiley will both leave the organization at the end of September.

The resignations were announced at the July CCHS board meeting last Thursday after a lengthy meeting discussing the future of the hospital district and planned remodel of Dayton General Hospital.

"Jon has done a great job, but it's time to get someone else in here," Paterson told the board. Both stressed that getting a new CEO on the ground at the start of major renovations to the hospital would be in t...