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Ann Arbor, MI-based University of Michigan Health System has Retired Deborah Childs as Chief Human Resources Officer
About the Company
The University of Michigan Health System, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is part of one of the world’s leading universities. UMHS is a premier, highly ranked academic medical center and award-winning health care system with state-of-the-art facilities. Our vision is to create the future of health care through scientific discovery, innovations in education, and the most effective and compassionate care. We want to be the leader in health care, health care reform, and biomedical innovation. UMHS includes the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers; the U-M Medical School and its Faculty Group Practice; one of the nation`s largest biomedical research communities; and education programs that train thousands of future health professionals and scientists each year. We were formerly known as the University of Michigan Medical Center; today that term applies generally to the collection of buildings on our main medical campus in Ann Arbor. We have a close partnership with the U-M School of Nursing and other health sciences schools at U-M. Through the Michigan Health Corporation, we are able to form partnerships outside of our University.
About the Person
Deborah Childs worked in the Health System for 30 years, beginning as a secretary in the Department of Psychiatry in 1974. She came to Human Resources in 1981, where she served in many leadership roles, including director of labor relations, chief spokesperson for nursing and house officers in contract negotiations, and co-lead for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees bargaining team and human resources policy leadership. After serving as the U-M Health System's interim human resources administrator since April 2004, Deborah Childs was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer on April 19, 2005. During her time as interim HR administrator, Childs' responsibilities included directing health system human resources, occupational and health promotion programs and the Program for Multicultural Health. Childs holds a bachelor's degree from Trinity University and has extensive expertise in the field of interest-based problem solving techniques, also known as mutual gains. She has spoken nationally and internationally on the application of mutual gains in the collective bargaining process and was published in the National Institute for Dispute Resolution Forum in 1996.
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