New CEO at hospital

Mr Steve Atkins has been appointed new chief executive officer of Brisbane Waters Private Hospital.

Mr Atkins' career has been in health care management, initially in Newcastle.

Prior to joining Nova Health, owners of the hospital, he worked for nine years in senior management for Health Care of Australia, a Mayne Nickless company in Melbourne.

Mr Atkins succeeds Mr Graham McGuinness who retired as CEO of the hospital for over 10 years.

Mr McGuinness was involved with the public float of Nova Health in 2002 that purchased Brisbane Waters Private Hospital, which had been locally owned and operated.

The company purchased three other NSW hospitals and five in Victoria at the time.

Mr McGuinness subsequently became responsible for the operations of the company's NSW hospitals.

Newsletter, February 27 Central Coast Business Review