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Piedmont Healthcare Names Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer

Michele M. Molden is the executive vice president and chief administrative officer for Piedmont Healthcare. In her role, Molden is responsible for development, human resources, information systems and materials management, as well as areas of marketing and public relations, business development and outreach services. Previously, she was executive vice president of planning and business development for PHC.

Before joining the Piedmont team in 2002, Molden served as senior vice president of outreach services for Olympic Health Management in Bellingham, Wash. She also was vice president of planning and marketing at Atlanta’s Saint Joseph’s Hospital.

Molden is a graduate of MiamiUniversity in Oxford, Ohio, and received a master’s degree in business administration from KennesawStateUniversity. She and her husband, Jack, live in Sandy Springs.

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About Piedmont Healthcare

Piedmont Healthcare, a not-for-profit organization, is the parent company of Piedmont Hospital – named in the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®list in 2005 and 2002, and in the 100 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Studyin 2005 and 2004 – a 500-bed acute tertiary care facility in the north Atlanta community of Buckhead, offering all major medical, surgical and diagnostic services; Piedmont Fayette Hospital, a 100-bed acute care community hospital in Fayetteville, also named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals®for the second year in a row and one of the nation’s Most Wired hospitals; Piedmont Mountainside Hospital, a 35-bed community hospital in Jasper; the Piedmont Hospital Foundation; Piedmont Physicians Group, with more than 70 primary care physicians in a network of 18 offices throughout metro Atlanta; and the Piedmont Clinic, a 469-member physician network. Piedmont and PiedmontFayetteHospitals were the only two Georgia hospitals on the 2005 list of 100 Top Hospitals. For more information, visit

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