The Boss: Jana Skewes, Keeping Track for Millions of Patients
March 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
MY father owned several furniture stores, including one in Hollidaysburg, Pa., our hometown. He worked seven days a week, but my two brothers and sister and I always knew that we were the most important thing to him.
Jana Skewes
Chief executive, Shared Health, Chattanooga, Tenn.
AGE 46
FAVORITE ACTIVITY Playing piano, boating and golfing
RECENTLY READ “Everyday Grace,” by Marianne Williamson
My father gave me my first job — dusting his showroom — when I was 12. My mother raised the four of us, then went back into the work force.
I went to college at Penn State, where initially I wanted to follow my father’s example and major in business. But when I found myself in an accounting class of 800, I sat down with my oldest brother to figure out other possibilities.
I took his advice and enrolled in the health planning program. After graduating in 1985, I worked at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. I shadowed the hospital’s head to learn all I could, and I was promoted to administrator for pediatric medicine. While I was …
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