System Vice President of Facilities Announcement

I am pleased to announce that Dean Kroll has agreed to serve as HSHS System Vice President of Facilities, effective Oct. 13. Dean is currently System Director of Project Design and Construction and has been serving as interim Chief Facilities Officer since July. In this new role, he is responsible for all HSHS facilities, design and construction, real estate and joint leadership of security and clinical engineering. Dean will continue to report to me in this new role.

Since rejoining HSHS in 2022 as System Director of Project Design and Construction, Dean has overseen several HSHS projects, such as master planning for Green Bay hospitals and HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in O’Fallon, as well as HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Decatur’s modernization construction project. He has led special projects including Energy as Service Phase 1 and the Trimedex rollout and continues to take initiative on setting system standards for fiscal stewardship, sustainability and efficiency improvements.

A registered Wisconsin licensed architect, Dean’s career with HSHS began in 2002 at HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay, where he served as a construction specialist/supervisor, before advancing to Director of Plant Operations. He also served as a construction consultant for HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan and, from 2011-2017, served as Divisional Director of Facility Management for the Eastern Wisconsin Division. After spending time in the private sector in an industrial construction company and as a construction consultant, Dean returned to HSHS in 2022.

Dean is a strong leader whose knowledge, experience and problem-solving nature lends itself to positive collaboration between construction companies and department representatives to mutually beneficial outcomes.

Please join me in congratulating Dean on his new leadership role.