[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 69 (Friday, April 27, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




TRIBUTE TO CHRISTOPHER G. DAWES ON HIS RETIREMENT AS PRESIDENT AND CEO 
                 OF LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 27, 2018

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my deepest gratitude 
to Christopher Dawes for his extraordinary leadership as President and 
Chief Executive Officer of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at 
Stanford and to congratulate him on his well-earned retirement.
   Christopher Dawes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public 
Administration from San Diego State University and an MBA from the 
McLaren School of Business at the University of San Francisco. While 
his first job was delivering newspapers at the age of 12, Chris has had 
a long and distinguished career in hospital management and held senior 
management positions at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Pacific 
Presbyterian Medical Center and Stanford Hospital. He joined the 
Packard team in 1991 and was named its President and CEO in 1999.
   Chris Dawes is a nationally recognized leader having served as Board 
Chair of the Children's Health Corporation of America (CHCA), a 
national purchasing organization for medical supplies for children's 
hospitals. He was Chair of the Board of the National Association of 
Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), a public policy 
organization, and he was deeply involved in the development of national 
policies for America's children as Chair of NACHRI during the 
development of the Affordable Care Act. It was his vision to 
consolidate CHCA and NACHRI into one organization, persuading his 
colleagues of the benefit of consolidation, which is now the Children's 
Hospital Association based in Washington, D.C.
   During Chris's tenure Packard has been consistently ranked as one of 
the nation's best Children's Hospitals by U.S. News and World Report. 
Under his leadership, excellent nationally ranked clinical services 
were created and investments were made in the Children's Health 
Research Initiative. A network known as the Packard Children's Health 
Alliance was built to provide 60 Bay Area locations with access to the 
care the Hospital provides, and a new, $1.2 billion, 521,000 square 
foot main building, a multi-year undertaking, was completed. Chris was 
an engaged executive who led the Hospital through a transition to the 
lean management approach known as the Toyota Production System, and he 
imparted his values of serving all who need care, regardless of ability 
to pay, to everyone who served with him.
   Mr. Speaker, I am exceedingly proud to have worked closely with 
Chris Dawes from my first day in Congress to his retirement, spanning 
over 25 years. He has led with distinction, purpose and integrity, and 
transformed Lucile Packard Children's Hospital into the gold standard 
of care for children in our country. For all this and more, I ask the 
entire House of Representatives to join me in honoring this good and 
great man, and wishing him and his wife Beth every blessing in his 
retirement. We are a better, stronger country because of Chris Dawes's 
unparalleled leadership.

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