New administrator to start at Whitman Hospital next month

Debbie Glass was approved as CEO in the October meeting of the hospital board and will start in the first week of December.

She arrives here From Newberg, Ore. where she was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer for Providence Newberg Medical Center for five years. She was also interim chief executive in 2009. From 2008 to 2010, Glass served as interim regional chief nursing officer for Providence.

All told, she brings 25 years of health care leadership to her new position.

“We’re very excited about her coming,” said Whitman Hospital board chairman John Perry. “She’s got a ton of e...