Doll Receives ISHE President's Award

The Iowa Society for Healthcare Engineering (ISHE) awarded Mark Doll, director of Facilities Management at Grinnell Regional Medical Center (GRMC), the ISHE President’s Award.

The President’s Award is given annually at the discretion of the chapter president to an active chapter member based upon excellence of leadership, service, and contributions to Iowa healthcare engineering.

“Mark has been a steadfast and ardent supporter of healthcare engineering in Iowa and the region,” says Phillip Nelson, 2015 ISHE president. “Mark’s leadership style has motivated me personally to be a better healthcare engineer.”

Doll is no stranger to leadership roles both in Iowa and nationally. He was awarded the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) 2012 Region 6 Emerging Leader Award and served as the ISHE president in 2013. Nationally Doll served on the ASHE Chapter Relations Advisory Committee Taskforce in 2013 and was a member of the ASHE Conference Leadership Forum Committee Taskforce in 2014.

“Mark is very deserving of this award. He is a great leader at GRMC and every day sets a positive example for all of us,” says David Ness, GRMC vice-president of operations. “His strong engagement and leadership at a state and national level keeps him abreast of changes and improvements that benefit our medical center and the patients we serve. We certainly applaud this recognition.”

ISHE is affiliated with the Iowa Hospital Association as a personal membership group whose purpose is healthcare engineering education in Iowa. ISHE’s objectives are to promote quality patient care through improved engineering practices. Doll believes his involvement in ISHE and ASHE has enabled him to implement the knowledge and expertise he has gained through those organizations to the benefit of GRMC.

“ISHE and ASHE have been huge assets to my career and have brought tangible benefits to the medical center,” says Doll. “Personally, I have had access to an incredible amount of resources to increase my knowledge in the healthcare setting and leadership abilities. With the knowledge gained changes implemented, the medical center has realized tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of savings per year through energy savings and some of the most successful state surveys in recent years,”

“Code compliance, networking, legislative opportunities, and a respected platform to work from can give small hospitals in Iowa the same voice as the largest hospitals in the country. We are a group of individuals striving to make the safest and most comfortable healing environment possible for our patients,” says Doll.

For more information regarding ISHE, please visit www.ihaonline.org/Members-Groups/Personal-Membership-Groups/ISHE.