Krista Touros, MBA, named PeaceHealth Northwest Chief Financial Officer

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December 18, 2019

PeaceHealth announced that Krista Touros, MBA, has been named chief financial officer of the PeaceHealth Northwest network.
 
Touros will be responsible for all aspects of financial management for PeaceHealth’s medical centers in Bellingham, Sedro-Woolley, and Friday Harbor, Washington, and Ketchikan, Alaska.
Touros comes to PeaceHealth with a proven track record in financial performance and operations management, including Lean process improvement. For the last two plus years she was at Banner Health as Western Division CFO with responsibilities for 13 hospitals in a six-state area. Prior to her time at Banner, Touros was with Sutter Health for 19 years, working at a number of its facilities in northern California and the Bay Area in increasing roles of responsibility within its finance division. Her last position at Sutter was as CFO for Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, a multi-campus hospital system.
Touros earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and an MBA degree from the University of Phoenix, in Sacramento, California. Additionally, she received certification as a Lean Leader and Kaizen Facilitator from Rona Consulting. 
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About PeaceHealth
PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Wash., is a not-for-profit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a medical group practice with more than 900 providers and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest. In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. The Sisters shared expertise and transferred wisdom from one medical center to another, always finding the best way to serve the unmet need for healthcare in their communities. Today, PeaceHealth is the legacy of the founding Sisters and continues with a spirit of respect, stewardship, collaboration and social justice in fulfilling its Mission. Visit us online at peacehealth.org.