Executive Profile
Thursday, January 23, 1997
Name: William O'Connor
Age: 55
Position: President, chief executive, Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific
First job: Ice cream sales
Hobbies: Reading, family
The facility is for persons with spine injuries that resulted in quadriplegia. Devices will be installed to help tenants.
"Our health-care environment is changing and evolving dramatically," O'Connor said.
He came from the Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Warren, Ohio, where he had been president since 1990 and implemented a $10 million construction program and strategic planning process.
O'Connor also was the chief executive officer at Emanuel Rehabilitation Center in Portland, Ore.; the Alaska Treatment Center in Anchorage; and at Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains, N.Y.