New chief takes over at KHMH
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has recently received a new board of directors, with Norman Moore as chairman. But the man of the hour, who is expected to lead the hospital staff along the path of better health care service, is Doctor Alvaro Rosado. Rosado, who resigned last year from the University of Belize, now takes up the unenviable task of being the new chief executive officer of the KHMH.
Dr. Alvaro Rosado, CEO KHMH
“Well I think I bring with me a vast knowledge of administration and management. That is my training, I spent three years doing a Ph.D. in administration. I have been an administrator for the last twenty-three years, I have also had experience in this sort of thing. I will not pretend to know anything about medicine or about nursing, I might be more cognizant of the financial areas, I was vice president for financial affairs at the University of Belize and for human resources.”
“But the literature will tell you and in fact I did do my research before I decided to take this job that being a medical person is not a prerequisite for being a administrator at a hospital. My job us to administer, my job is to lead, my job is to manage. I believe that we have put a team together, and the members of the team will be the one who will supply the expertise in the different areas. We have heard Mr. Waight talking about the medical services, Mr. Hemmans talking about nursing services and so on. My job, my contribution will be to bring together this vast amount of resources that we have here, to tap all these skills that are currently here. We are not doing anything new, I said in my opening remarks that I think we have all the expertise we need right here to do a good job.”
The KHMH, Belize’s largest hospital, is expected to admit over eight thousand patients and treat close to twenty-four thousand people in its emergency unit this year. The Ministry of Health is currently making repairs to the facility, and plans are also underway to invest five million dollars to construct a new wing to the hospital.
