Mechanicsburg, Pa., USA - March 26, 2010, Mechanicsburg, Pa., USA - MAGNET (The Mid-Atlantic Group Network of Shared Services) announed that it has named a new president and a new chief operations officer.
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Steve Duke, the company's vice president has been named chief operations officer, but he will also continue serving as vice president.
Christopher Moore, who served as MAGNET's chairman will now work as both the company's chairman and president.
Mr. Duke has served as Vice President of the Mid Atlantic Group Network of Shared Services (MAGNET) since 1989. A graduate of Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania, Mr. Duke is a Fellow and a Certified Materials Resource Professional (CMRP) in the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), a Member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and a Fellow in the Society for Healthcare Group Purchasing (PSHGP) and currently serves as its Immediate Past President.
Mr. Duke also has served as president of the Healthcare Executives Forum of Central Pennsylvania, an ACHE Affiliate Chapter, and as chairman of the Pennsylvania Statewide Seminar for hospital material managers. He also has served as the President of the Central PA Chapter of AHRMM.
From January 1974 through September 1987, Mr. Duke served in a variety of positions with Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania from buyer/expediter for plant operations to Director of Materiels Management. From 1987 to 1989, he was Corporate Director of Materials Management for AmeriHealth, Inc., a proprietary hospital company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mr. Duke was the 1980 recipient of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania's Cost Containment Award, and in 1991 of the Samuel M. Reese Memorial Award, given by the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Healthcare Resource and Materials Management for "outstanding contributions and achievements in healthcare purchasing." In 2000 Mr. Duke received The Stan Costello Achievement Award. ■