McGinty
Sr. Wolf
Sr. Laura Wolf, OSF, plans to step down June 1 as president of Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity Sponsored Ministries, a role she has held since 1985. The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity's congregational leadership named Daniel McGinty as Sr. Wolf's successor.
McGinty, 53, will become the first lay president of FSCCM. Sr. Wolf, 69, will continue as senior executive advisor to the president of FSCCM.
Sr. Wolf is the founding president of FSCCM, said Scott McConnaha, the system's vice president of mission.
FSCCM is based in Manitowoc, Wis. It includes three acute care hospitals: St. Francis Memorial Hospital in West Point, Neb.; Holy Family Memorial in Manitowoc; and Genesis Hospital in Zanesville, Ohio. It provides skilled nursing, intermediate care and assisted living through St. Paul Elder Services in Kaukauna, Wis., and has an assisted living facility, St. Joseph's Retirement Community, located on the same campus as St. Francis Memorial Hospital. The ministry also includes Silver Lake College of the Holy Family in Manitowoc.
Sr. Wolf said the ministry is small compared to some other Catholic health care systems, and she said it has done well by listening to and meeting the local needs in the markets it serves. Sr. Wolf said FSCCM is financially healthy, with a net revenue of about $750 million in fiscal year 2015.
She also said she's proud of the ministry's commitment to keep its Catholic mission at the heart of its work, including through ongoing educational training for employees and board members.
Sr. Wolf is one of a very few woman religious currently in a president or chief executive role at a CHA-member system. Sr. Wolf indicated that another Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity could rise to senior leadership of FSCCM in the future. The congregation has about 250 members, and some of those women could be cultivated for leadership roles in its sponsored ministries.
McGinty has served on the FSCCM board since 2009. He most recently was executive vice president of hospital and specialty services at Allina Health, an integrated health system based in Minneapolis.
From 1995 to 2001, he was president and chief executive of Holy Family Memorial hospital in Manitowoc, part of the FSCCM system.
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