Daughters of Charity Health System

Collis was elected to the State Board of Equalization, California's umbrella tax and revenue agency, in 1982. Re-elected in 1986, he served as Chairman of the Equalization Board, overseeing an agency with over 1500 employees in 57 offices. He wrote and successfully sponsored a number of new laws and regulations, including the State Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, tax credits for employer-sponsored childcare and the elimination of tax benefits for discriminatory private clubs. He also implemented a broad modernization and reform of the state tax bureaucracy. While on the Board, Collis chaired a major 1986 statewide voter registration drive, registering nearly 300,000 voters, and was the proponent of a 1988 statewide initiative to address housing and homelessness through a coordinated, cost-effective program. In 2001, he served as Chairman of the California State Senate Bipartisan Task Force on Homelessness. Collis graduated with honors from Occidental College in 1970 and Stanford Law School in 1974.

Mr. Hutsell's professional healthcare and technology career began 30 years ago with the Consulting Division of Arthur Andersen (now Accenture). He was part of the development team of an early budgeting and decision support system, had extensive experience with first generation clinical systems and moving hospitals from shared to in-house technologies. Mr. Hutsell was called on numerous times to review clinical system designs and project approaches. In addition to healthcare, he gained experience in process manufacturing, education, local and state government, and transportation/logistics. From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Hutsell was with the Daughters of Charity National Health System - West as VP of Information Systems, during the formation of that health system, and its subsequent merge into Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). With CHW, he was a corporate Vice President, acting at times as a Regional CIO, Technology Director for System-wide Reengineering, and managing the multi-million dollar Y2K project covering all technologies within CHW. Prior to joining the team that developed the Daughters of Charity Health System, Mr. Hutsell was Director of Information Technology Application Services for Blue Shield of California. At Blue Shield, he had responsibility for developing a program management organization and methodology, establishing a web development QA team, and re-establishing an effective IT delivery strategy to individual business units. During the development of DCHS, Mr. Hutsell established the initial strategy for Quality Improvement and developed work groups for marketing, nursing, supply chain management, imaging and other ancillary support areas. Currently, he has responsibility for Supply Chain Management in addition to traditional CIO duties.

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Mr. Walter joins the Daughters of Charity Health System as VP of Facilities Planning and Management from the University of California Irvine Hospital replacement project. His tenure with the Daughters spans nearly 20 years. Mr. Walter first joined the Daughters of Charity in 1987, working on the St. Francis Hospital replacement project. Following the Catholic Healthcare West merger, he transitioned to the CHW Southern California Regional Office as Director of Facility Planning. With the formation of the Daughters of Charity Ministry Services Corporation, he became the VP of Facility Planning and Development. Prior to joining the Daughters, Mr. Walter spent 21 years in the USAF in base engineering and maintenance. He was also the Facility Manager for its 1000-bed worldwide referral hospital, Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. He is a registered civil engineer and has a Masters from the Air Force School of Systems and Logistics. Mr. Walter has been married to Kathryn for 32 years and they have a daughter, Megan.