Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital's president and CEO, Ron Hytoff, plans to retire.
Hytoff, 66, has served as CEO since February 2000, during which time he doubled patient volume and more than tripled net revenue at the once-financially distressed medical center, according to a news release (PDF).
The hospital said it would immediately begin a nationwide search for a CEO. Hytoff will remain at the helm through the transition or until no later than June 2013.
The news release hailed him as a turnaround architect, who stepped into the COO role at Tampa General in 1997 as it was transitioning from a public to a private not-for-profit hospital. At the time, it was losing millions of dollars each year.
