[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E501]
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   IN RECOGNITION OF DR. GLENN D. STEELE, JR., PRESIDENT AND CEO OF 
                        GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM

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                          HON. MATT CARTWRIGHT

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 15, 2015

  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Dr. Glenn Steele, 
Jr., who will be retiring in June after a stellar, fourteen-year tenure 
as President and CEO of Geisinger Health System. Under his leadership, 
Geisinger grew and gained national recognition for its innovative 
approach to health care. Today, the company serves 2.6 million 
residents across 44 counties in Pennsylvania and employs almost 21,000 
people. For his groundbreaking and imaginative leadership, Dr. Steele 
has been recognized as one of the most influential physician executives 
our nation has ever seen.
  During his remarkable company leadership stint, Dr. Steele also 
served on the panel of health advisers for the Congressional Budget 
Office and contributed significantly to a host of prominent medical 
societies and organizations, including the American Surgical 
Association, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of 
Sciences, and the Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare. He 
is an appointee to the Committee on the Governance and Financing of 
Graduate Medical Education, and, in February this year, Dr. Steele 
joined the ranks of the Millennium Health Advisory Board. He has also 
served as Chairman of the American Board of Surgery and President of 
the Society of Surgical Oncology.
  Dr. Steele's work has earned him several national awards, including 
the CEO IT Achievement Award in 2005, the American Hospital 
Association's (AHA) Grassroots Champion Award in 2007, the 8th Annual 
(2010) AHA Health Research & Education Trust Award, and the Healthcare 
Financial Management Association Board of Directors' Award in 2011. He 
has been recognized in the Modern Healthcare's ``50 Most Powerful 
Physician Executives'' numerous times and has made other health care 
industry ``most influential'' lists repeatedly. Dr. Steele has 
additionally served on the editorial board of many medical journals and 
has authored or co-authored more than 480 scientific and professional 
articles--quite a career record!
  It is an honor to recognize Dr. Glenn Steele for his many and ongoing 
accomplishments. I commend him for his innovative leadership in the 
field of health care and for his indispensable contributions to the 
high quality of life we enjoy in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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