The following CEOs of hospitals, health systems and healthcare companies have participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, helping raise awareness and research funds to help battle Lou Gehrig's disease.
1. Northwest Community Hospital CEO Stephen Scogna and dozen of his colleagues held a simultaneous dousing in Arlington Heights, Ill.
2. The executive team of Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla., was challenged by members of the Miami Dolphins. In turn, Doctors' Hospital's CEO, CNO and others nominated the teams from Baptist Hospital, South Miami Hospital and West Kendall Baptist Hospital, all in Miami, to douse themselves with ice water.
3. Robert Granger, president and CEO of St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Ga., had ice water poured over his head along with other members of the hospital's leadership team earlier this week. Mr. Granger then challenged Earl Rogers, president of the Georgia Hospital Association, to do the same.
4. Reuven Pasternak, MD, CEO of Stony Brook (N.Y.) University Hospital, was challenged by Chris Pendergast, a 65-year-old former teacher who was diagnosed with ALS in 1993.
5. Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak completed the challenge last weekend. He accepted the challenge from Agnes Berzesenyi at GE Healthcare. One person Mr. Ishrak challenged is Geoff Martha, senior vice president at Medtronic.
6. Anthony Ferreri, president and CEO of Staten Island (N.Y.) University Hospital accepted the challenge from Robert Scamardella, West Brighton attorney and former chief of the Staten Island Republican Party. Mr. Ferreri then challenged Dan Messina, CEO of Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, N.Y.
7. Quint Studer, founder of Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Studer Group completed the challenge.
8. Flemington, N.J.-based Hunterdon Healthcare System's CEO Robert Wise participated in the ice bucket challenge along with members of 55 Hunterdon Medical Center employees. Mr. Wise extended the challenge to the staff of three more hospitals.
9. Brad Griffin, CEO of Colleton Medical Center in Walterboro, S.C., and the rest of the administrative team gathered for a group challenge. Mr. Griffin was challenged by former CMC CEO Mitch Mongell.
10. Jim Ulrich, CEO of Community Hospital in McCook, Neb., dumped ice water on his head to support the ice bucket challenge.
11. Omaha-based Nebraska Methodist Hospital CEO Steve Goeser took the ice bucket challenge and in turn nominated the hospital's service leaders.
12. Charles Gressle, CEO of The Medical Center of Plano (Texas) accepted the challenge from his team. Due to recent construction at the hospital, Mr. Gressle's ice bucket challenge was more of an ice front-end loader challenge.
13. Cerner CEO Neal Patterson doused himself with ice water after being challenged by Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure. He nominated John Bluford III, former president and CEO of Kansas City, Mo.-based Truman Medical Centers; John Glaser, PhD, CEO of Siemens Healthcare's Health Services business unit; and business magnate T. Boone Pickens to take on the challenge.
14. An employee in Wilmington, N.C.-based New Hanover Regional Medical Center's central sterile processing department challenged NHRMC CEO Jack Barto to complete the ice bucket challenge. Mr. Barto accepted and then nominated Lori Feezor, the hospital's vice president of legal affairs; Sheri Albertson, Employee Fitness Center trainer; and Martha Harlan, director of marketing and public relations.
15. Randy Oostra, president and CEO of Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica, took the ice bucket challenge after being nominated by ProMedica Bay Park Hospital in Oregon, Ohio. Mr. Oostra passed on the nomination to Robert LeClair, president of Fifth Third Bank, and Jeff Kuhn, ProMedica's chief legal officer and general counsel.
16. David Scott, president and CEO of Ohio Valley Hospital in McKees Rocks, Pa., accepted the ice bucket challenge from the hospital's medical staff director. Mr. Scott completed the challenge with some members from the marketing department at a local 5K race and nominated several other hospitals employees to do the same.
17. New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System president and CEO Warner Thomas participated in the ice bucket challenge at an employee meeting. In turn, Mr. Thomas challenged the Jefferson Parish president John Young, New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis and all the CEOs of Ochsner's ten facilities.
18. Chris Van Gorder, CEO of San Diego-based Scripps Health, completed the ice bucket challenge along with John Boucher, a former Scripps Health colleague who was diagnosed with ALS three years ago. Mr. Van Gorder forwarded the nomination to Mike Murphy, president and CEO of San Diego-based Sharp Healthcare; Paul Viviano, CEO of UC San Diego Health System; and Donald Kearns, MD, president of Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.
19. Upon being nominated by Mr. Van Gorder, Dr. Kearns accepted and completed the challenge. Dr. Kearns took the opportunity to nominate CEOs of other California children's hospitals, including Kimberly Cripe of Orange-based Children's HealthCare of California, Richard Cordova of Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Christopher Dawes of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto.
20. Fifteen senior leaders and physicians, including CEO Bill Keaton and the leadership team and board of managers at Baylor Medical Center at Frisco (Texas) took on the challenge. They then challenged the leadership team at Baylor Medical Center at McKinney (Texas) to do the same.
Note: The article is being consistently updated as we learn of more CEOs completing the challenge.
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