Tri-City Healthcare District president and CEO Steve Dietlin will retire at the end of March after spending more than a decade in leadership at the hospital. Tri-City board chairman Rocky Chavez accepted Dietlin’s letter of retirement “with deep regret” on Dec. 30, praising his leadership over the last 10 years.
“Steve has been an outstanding, transformational leader for our hospital and community,” Chavez stated in an official announcement of Dietlin’s retirement. “He will be sorely missed.”
Steve Dietlin joined Tri-City Medical Center as the Chief Financial Officer in February 2013 and was then promoted to Chief Executive Officer in March of 2016. Since his arrival at Tri-City, he has navigated the financial pressures created by federal health care reform as well as those he inherited when he stepped into his role and led the fiscal ’14 financial turnaround. Steve previously served as an executive and a consultant to multiple public, private and not for profit healthcare systems and facilities, and has over 25 years of healthcare financial and operational management experience. As a healthcare executive, Steve has extensive experience leading strategic planning and operations, acquisitions, expansions, affiliations, feasibility studies, turnarounds and community involvement. He began his career as a healthcare audit specialist with Ernst & Young and is a CA Licensed Certified Public Accountant.
