(Radio Iowa) – A woman who’s a top administrator at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic will become interim C-E-O of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Current University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics C-E-O Suresh Gunasekaran is leaving at the end of February, to become chief the University of California San Fransisco Health. Kimberly Hunter will take over at the Iowa City health system March 1st. She’s currently serving as a chief nursing executive at the Cleveland Clinic. Hunter has previous experience at Mayo Clinic as well.

Kimberly Hunter (2021 photo via UIHC

Nearly eight-thousand people are employed at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, putting it among the state’s 15 largest employers. The outgoing University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics was featured in a video, along with Governor Kim Reynolds, that was released in November of 2020 that encouraged Iowans to get vaccinated against Covid.