HCA/HealthONE’s Swedish Medical Center Welcomes New Chief Medical

Officer

Monique Butler, MD, MBA, brings extensive experience creating hospital operational and quality
improvements.

Englewood, CO, August 23, 2018 --(PR.com)-- After a national search, Monique Butler, MD, MBA, has
been selected as the Chief Medical Officer for Swedish Medical Center, a 408 bed level 1 trauma center
located in Englewood, Colorado. Dr. Butler has extensive experience creating hospital operational and
quality improvements; and is very committed to the delivery of providing excellent care with every
patient (and family) with every encounter.

Dr. Butler joins Swedish from the Children's Hospital of Michigan/Detroit Medical Center, where she
was the Chief Operating Officer. Previously she held positions as the Chief Medical Officer at Detroit
Receiving Hospital and Sinai-Grace Hospital.

Highlights of Dr. Butler's achievements include reducing readmission rates by 14%, reducing hospital
acquired infection rates by 31% and improving the use of ED sepsis bundles resulting in a 13% reduction
in sepsis excess days. Additionally at Sinai-Grace Hospital she created a high reliability organization and
implemented a Just Culture, while receiving a Tenet Top Hospital award for Most Improved Physician
Satisfaction. Under Dr. Butler's leadership at the Children's Hospital of Michigan the team was able to
achieve significant improvement in operational efficiency and performance excellence metrics in
operating room turn-around-time, emergency department throughput and patient satisfaction.

Dr. Butler was voted A Woman of Excellence in STEM careers in Michigan, was recognized as one of
Michigan Chronicle's 40 under 40, and most recently was identified in Becker's Hospital Review as one
of the 50 great African American leaders in healthcare to know in the nation. “I'm excited to join the
leadership team at Swedish Medical Center,” said Dr. Butler. “It is an honor to be working alongside a
team who provides the highest level of quality and the best care possible.”

A board-certified internist, Dr. Butler graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and
received her medical training at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed her
residency training at the Detroit Medical Center where she was chief medical resident of internal
medicine, and president of the resident council at Sinai-Grace Hospital. Dr. Butler also completed a
Master's in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee Physician Executive MBA
program and holds a clinical assistant professorship appointment at Michigan State University's College
of Osteopathic Medicine. She is Lean Six Sigma certified in Health Care, a member of the American
College of Healthcare Executives, the American College of Physicians and the American Medical
Association.

Dr. Butler is very active in the community. Her volunteer work includes serving on the Advisory Board
for the American Heart Association, Metro Detroit Chapter; as Vice President for the Benjamin Carson
High School of Sciences and Medicine Advisory Board; on the Neighborhood Services Organization

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Board of Governors; the University of Michigan's School of Kinesiology Board of Governors; and the
Detroit Medical Society Board of Governors. She is the co-founder of the Young Doctors of Detroit
program, the founder of The Women Physicians Network, and was the Executive Chair for the Greater
Detroit Area Health Council and Cardiac Prevention Program. In her spare time, Dr. Butler enjoys
traveling, watching movies and spending time with her husband, Steven and their daughter, Brooke.

About Swedish

Swedish Medical Center, part of HCA's HealthONE, is located in the south metro Denver area where it
has been a proud member of the community for more than 110 years. An acute care hospital with 408
licensed beds, annually Swedish cares for more than 200,000 patients with a team of approximately 2,000
dedicated employees, 300 volunteers and 1,400 physicians.

With stroke door to treatment times averaging just 20 minutes, Swedish serves as the Rocky Mountain
Region's referral center for the most advanced stroke treatment, and was the state's first Joint Commission
certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. Swedish also serves as the region's neurotrauma and orthopedic
trauma provider and is the area's only level I trauma facility with a dedicated burn and reconstructive
center. Over 150 facilities regularly transfer highly complex cases to Swedish.

Swedish Medical Center offers patients the highest quality care and the most advanced technologies and
treatments in nearly every medical specialty including adult and pediatric emergency, heart care,
neurology/neurosurgery, pregnancy and childbirth, orthopedics and joint replacement, cancer care,
gastroenterology and liver care, gynecology and urology. Additional information about the hospital is
available at www.SwedishHospital.com.

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Contact Information:
Swedish Medical Center
Kara Hamersky
(303) 817-5708
Contact via Email
www.SwedishHospital.com

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