By Mary Wade Burnside
FAIRMONT — After a weekend self-piloted trip, Robert C. Marquardt, a career hospital administrator, will settle into his new job as president and chief executive officer at Fairmont General Hospital on Tuesday.
Most recently, Marquardt served as CEO of St. Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs in Ashland, Pa.
A native of St. Joseph, Mich., Marquardt was CEO of Memorial Medical Center of West Michigan for nearly 21 years. He left that position to head up Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii, where he spent eight months before taking the job in Pennsylvania.
Marquardt took on the job at St. Catherine when it had a debt of nearly $3.5 million; by the end of the year, a positive bottom line is projected.
At Fairmont General, Marquardt will be taking on a hospital with more than twice as many beds — 207 — than at his previous one.
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