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January 29, 2002

Dear Colleagues,

It is with a genuine combination of congratulations for his new career opportunity and regret for Hopkins that I write to announce the resignation of Bill Kent, our highly esteemed President of the Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation (MSC), effective March 1. Bill has accepted the post of Senior Vice President for Clinical Delivery Systems at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, with both strategic and operational responsibilities at the institution.

In his more than twelve years at Hopkins, Bill has so ably served Hopkins in its long and intensely challenging efforts to build and implement effective ambulatory care services. In a managed care environment, providing such services to our community and beyond requires the kind of hard work and dedication that few can muster. Bill delivered, and did so always with professional and personal grace.

Beginning his career at Hopkins in 1989 as manager of ambulatory care operations for the departments of medicine and surgery clinics, he also served as the first director of administrative services at the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, then rose to become Vice President of Clinical Operations and later, in 1998, Executive Vice President and COO of the MSC. Promoted to President of MSC in September, 2000, he was instrumental in planning and implementing the merger of the primary care practices of MSC and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Physicians, creating the new Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) operation and, with Patty Brown, integrating managed care operations between JHCP and Johns Hopkins Health Care.

Today, we can be proud that JHCP provides ambulatory care services to 18 practices throughout Maryland, including the historic East Baltimore Medical Center, where Bill also developed the East Baltimore Medical Center Community Advisory Board to foster improved communications with residents of our neighborhoods.

Over the next several weeks, I will oversee efforts to ensure a smooth leadership transition. Meanwhile, I hope you will join me in wishing Bill every success in his new endeavor.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Peterson

President
The John Hopkins Hospital and Health System

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