TAMC CEO leaving for new post in NY
Sylvia Getman
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Leaders at The Aroostook Medical Center are looking for a new chief executive officer to replace Sylvia Getman, who will be leaving for a new job this summer.
In June, Getman is set to become CEO of Adirondack Health in upstate New York, in part so she and her husband, Bill, the manager of Bigrock Mountain, can be closer to his family.
“My time with EMHS has been the most rewarding of my career,” Getman said, referring to Eastern Maine Healthcare System, which TAMC has been a part of since 1999.
Getman came to TAMC in August 2010 and presided over a number of expansions and changes, including new cancer services, the acquisition of physician practices and a switch to compressed natural gas heating at the main hospital and clinic campus in Presque Isle.
Under Getman, TAMC also used its community benefit needs assessment obligations, a requirement for nonprofit hospitals, to address northern Maine’s diabetes and obesity problems through group outdoor activities and a community garden at the site of a former hospital in Fort Fairfield.
“Sylvia quickly became an integral part of our community here in northern Maine,” said Steve St. Pierre, chair of TAMC’s board of trustees and vice president at KeyBank.
“I have enjoyed working with Sylvia for the past six years and will miss her passion and advocacy for rural health care,” said Michelle Hood, the CEO of EMHS in Bangor.
Getman, who was part of a military family from western Wisconsin, worked in hospital administration in rural Iowa and in Nantucket, Massachusetts, before coming to TAMC in 2010 and replacing Dave Peterson, who retired after 30 years.
