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Local News - Local News - December 20, 2012
Elaine Couture is setting course for Providence Health Care
New CEO guided by wellness background, mindset

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

Providence Health Care's new chief executive Elaine Couture says she's excited about the looming health reform changes.
Providence Health Care's new chief executive Elaine Couture says she's excited about the looming health reform changes.
—Staff photo by Kim Crompton
Elaine Couture has been spearheading wellness initiatives during much of her career in health care, so perhaps it's no surprise that she has some beliefs that census-focused hospital system executives of earlier generations might have considered disconcerting.

"If I could deliver an ideal health care system, the hospital would be empty," says Couture, who recently took over as chief executive at Providence Health Care, the Inland Northwest's largest health-care system.

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