Hospital hires Macy as chief financial officer

Mike Macy

Mike Macy, an executive with Columbia Bank for the last 10 years, has been named Chief Financial Officer for Whitman Hospital and Medical Center. Macy has moved here from Sunnyside to start the new job.

Macy Monday said he learned about the opening at the Colfax hospital when he made visits here every two weeks while working for Columbia Bank.

He noted he and his wife, Pat, have always had an interest in residing in a small town next to a major university, and that added to the appeal of the hospital CFO position.

Macy has already moved to Colfax, and Pat, who serves as a Methodist pastor in Sunnyside, will move here after she concludes her obligation to the church there.

The other member of the family is Xena, their English Springer Spaniel. One of Macy's hobbies is entering Xena in dog shows.

Raised in the Tacoma area, Macy graduated from high school in Fife. He served as a page for U.S. Sen. Warren Magnusson during his junior year.

Macy made his first stop in the Palouse country when he attended Washington State University. He earned bachelors and master's degrees in business administration with special studies in finance and economics in Pullman.

At Columbia Bank he was a treasury management specialist assigned to eastern Washington and the Columbia Basin. He headed the bank's team on working with government entities.

His career in financial management includes work with public entities, including three years as CFO of Klickitat Public Utility in Goldendale. He has also worked with Migrant Head Start in Wilsonville, Ore., a suburb of Portland, and as CFO for Southwest Area Agency on Aging, based in Vancouver. The agency serves 10,000 people in three counties

Macy fills the hospital position which was vacated by the resignation of Jim Heilsberg.