Mid Coast–Parkview Health president to retire in 2023 after 11 years of leadership
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Lois Skillings will retire in 2023 as president of Mid Coast–Parkview Health.
Mid Coast–Parkview Health President Lois Skillings, who helped oversee a series of mergers and expansions at the Brunswick hospital system, will retire in early 2023.
Skillings has worked for Mid Coast–Parkview Health in numerous nursing and leadership capacities since 1979, serving as president for the past 11 years. She began her career at Brunswick Regional Hospital as a medical-surgical nurse, then as an emergency nurse.
“Lois’s commitment to the health of this community — her community — has been nothing short of admirable,” Lennie Burke, chair of the Mid Coast–Parkview Health’s board, and Kelly Elkins, chief operating officer of MaineHealth, said in a joint statement. “She has made an extraordinary mark on local health care, and her efforts have helped to make our communities among the healthiest in Maine.”
After the merger of the Bath Memorial and Brunswick Regional Hospitals to form Mid Coast Hospital in 1991, Skillings was instrumental in the planning for a new hospital building that opened on Medical Center Drive in 2001. That was followed by a $21.3 million expansion in 2009.
In 2015, Skillings also oversaw the merger between Mid Coast Health Services and Parkview Adventist Medical Center to form Mid Coast–Parkview Health. In 2020, she led Mid Coast–Parkview’s merger with MaineHealth. That helped pave the way for a comprehensive strategy to adopt MaineHealth’s shared electronic health record system, Epic.
Skillings also oversaw the growth of Mid Coast Medical Group, including the construction of new buildings for primary care practices in Bath and Topsham, as well as the establishment of Mid Coast Medical Group-Brunswick Primary Care and the Mid Coast Hospital Walk-In Clinic.
She helped with the successful completion of a capital campaign that expanded wellness and cancer care offerings on the Parkview campus and significant upgrades to Mid Coast Senior Health, including construction of a new wing and numerous facility renovations.
Skillings was a 2015 Mainebiz Woman to Watch.
The Mid Coast–Parkview Health board and the MaineHealth leadership team are working to find a successor to Skillings, whose exact retirement date is still to be determined.
“She has cared for the organization and tended to its needs in such a way that empowers Mid Coast–Parkview Health to remain successful long into the future. We thank Lois for her 43 years of dedicated service caring for this organization, our care team members, and the patients and communities we serve,” Burke and Elkins said.
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