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RESOLUTION 1N HONOR OF THE
RETIREMENT OF JAMES P. SWEENEY
AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ENLOE HOSPITAL
WHEREAS, James P. Sweeney has served as Executive Director of Enloe Hospital for 28
years--more consecutive years of service at the same hospital than any administrator in Northern
California; and
WHEREAS, he has been the anly administrator Enloe has ever had as a nonprofit hospital;
and
WHEREAS, when Jim Sweeney started at Enloe, the hospital had 92 beds and less than 200
employees. There were 72 physicians on the medical staff and approximately 75 volunteers; and
WHEREAS, today, after 28 years under his direction, Enloe has 208 beds, more than 1,700
employees, a medical staff of more than 225 physicians, and more than 600 volunteers; and
WHEREAS, in 1984, Sweeney was elected to the Enloe Hospital Board of Trustees. That
same year he was appointed to the Enloe Hospital Foundation Board of Directors, Superior California
Enterprises Board of Directors, and Superior California Medical Center (Enloe Hospital's parent
corporation} Board of Directors; and
WHEREAS, during the 1990's, together with leadership from the hospital's Board of
Trustees, medical staff and department managers, Sweeney's direction has seen to the opening of the
Chico Children's Center, the new Enloe Home Care and Hospice facility and the Enloe Outpatient
Center; and
WHEREAS, Sweeney has been an active member in many service organizations, including
Chico Economic Planning Corporation, California State University, Chico, College of Business
Advisory Council, and has been a member of the Rotary Club of Chico since 1968. In 1993, Sweeney
was honored by Rotary with a Paul Harris Fellowship; and
WHEREAS, many health care improvements have been developed under Sweeney's
leadership which will improve the quality of life for the people of Northern California for many
generations to came.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that this Board, on its own behalf and on behalf
of the residents of Butte County, wish to express to Jim Sweeney sincere appreciation for his many
years of unselfish dedication and outstanding service rendered to the residents of Butte County, and
further wish him well on his retirement.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors this 14th day of
November, 1995, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
NOT VOTING: None
Meyer, Dolan, Houx, Thomas and Chair McLaughlin
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ED McLAUGALI, Chair
Butte County Boar of Supervisors
ATTEST:
JOBN S. BLACKLOCK, Chief Administrative Officer
and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
by
deputy