Greg Van Pelt, 55; Class of '90 Notable.(Supplement)(chief executive officer at Providence Health and Services)(Brief article)

Modern Healthcare,  September, 2007  

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Some computer problems just can't be remedied by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Delete as Greg Van Pelt, 55, found out. The executive vice president and chief regional operations officer of Providence Health & Services, a 26-hospital Catholic system headquartered in Seattle, was caught in the middle of a public relations nightmare after the system was hit twice within several months by data theft.

On Dec. 31, 2005, data on 365,000 home health patients of Providence Home Services in Portland, Ore., were stolen from the back seat of a Providence employee's vehicle. The system changed its ...

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