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Dan Slipkovich co-founded Capella Healthcare with Tom Anderson in April 2005 and serves as Chief Executive Officer for the Company. In his role as Chief Executive Officer of Capella, Dan oversees all facets of the Company�s strategies, operations, finances and corporate governance.Because of his track record in running hospitals and hospital companies, Dan was instrumental in securing $200 million of initial equity funding from GTCR to establish Capella as a financially strong start-up company. This equity funding, along with the solid backing of GTCR and Dan�s reasoned and calculated approach to business decisions, allowed Capella to acquire its first four hospitals from HCA in a transaction that started Capella off with a strong balance sheet while preserving adequate capital, both for hospital capital needs and future acquisitions.Prior to co-founding Capella, Dan was President and Chief Operating Officer for Province Healthcare, a rural hospital company which was acquired in April 2005 by LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. At Province, Dan oversaw the operations of 21 non-urban hospitals in markets ranging from rural California to rural Pennsylvania. Dan was brought into Province from LifePoint to replace its retiring Chief Operating Officer.While at LifePoint, Dan was Senior Vice President and Division President in charge of about one-half of LifePoint�s system of 29 hospitals. He was instrumental in improving LifePoint�s operating results by careful management of internal resources and careful strategic planning to improve operations and expand healthcare services to the communityDan began his career with HCA as a hospital Chief Financial Officer. After several promotions within HCA, Dan became Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for HCA�s Florida group, which was comprised of 5 divisions including hospitals, surgery centers, employed physicians and risk-based provider networks comprising $6 billion in annual revenue. In 1997, Dan was promoted to Corporate Senior Vice President based in HCA�s Nashville headquarters. In this role he was directly involved in managing the spin-off of LifePoint from HCA. The spin-off was completed in 1999. As a result of the spin-off, Dan joined LifePoint as Division President.Dan holds an undergraduate degree in accounting from West Virginia University and has masters-level education in business administration at the University of Miami. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Dan is married to Lisa and has two children. He is active on local boards and councils, including Middle Tennessee Council of Boy Scouts, Association of Retarded Citizens, American Heart Association and Nashville Ballet. | 