OMC Announces New Chief Financial Officer

PORT ANGELES  (April 27, 2020) – Lorraine Cannon joined Olympic Medical Center as the new chief financial officer on April 20.

“Lorraine is an excellent addition to the leadership team, and she will do really well as our CFO.  The experience and patient focus she brings to Olympic Medical Center will be very valuable in this challenging health care environment,” says Eric Lewis, chief executive officer.

Cannon will serve as internal auditor and oversee all finance staff, including accounts payable and payroll. She will also lead the materials management staff and the revenue cycle team which includes patient access services, health information management and patient financial services.

“I was very impressed while researching this facility, and I’m really excited to be joining Olympic Medical Center,” says Cannon.

Most recently, Cannon was the chief financial officer at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a 383-bed hospital where she worked to expand a live donor kidney program. She also served as Assistant Chief Financial Officer/Senior Controller for a medical center in Denver, Colorado. Cannon was assistant controller at HealthOne in Colorado during the development and construction of the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.

Cannon joins the executive team at OMC, which includes Eric Lewis, chief executive officer; Darryl Wolfe, chief operating officer; Scott Kennedy, MD, chief medical officer; Josh Jones, MD, chief physician officer; Ralph Parker, RN, chief nursing officer; Jennifer Burkhardt, chief human resources officer and general counsel; and Donna Davison, risk and compliance officer.

Olympic Medical Center (Clallam County Public Hospital District No. 2) is a comprehensive, award-winning health care provider for more than 70,000 residents of Clallam County. It has served the community since its establishment on Nov. 1, 1951, and is governed by a seven-member, publicly elected board. Olympic Medical is a sole community hospital and rural referral center, and a charter member of both the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (2003) and the Swedish Health Network (2011). Olympic Medical provides inpatient services at its 67-bed acute-care facility in Port Angeles, including a level-three trauma designated emergency department, surgical services, and labor and delivery. OMC’s outpatient services include cardiac, imaging, physical therapy and rehabilitation, laboratory, sleep medicine, surgical services, home health, physician clinics and comprehensive regional cancer care at locations in Port Angeles and Sequim.