It’s been a long, exciting, fulfilling career but Sue McLean is all done and retiring from her role as Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital Foundation CEO after 35 years in the hospital field. myFM caught up with McLean to talk career and retirement and she says it was simply the time.
McLean was asked for her opinion on where the Foundation sits at this moment in time.
She told myFm there have been plenty of highlights over her career but one element stands above the rest.
She says she has had some great opportunities to build some professional bridges.
Every year the Foundation sends out a fundraising appeal at Christmas time and this year’s letter will be her last one she will write. She says she is very excited about a path that was started two years ago which she hopes the current board will continue to follow.
McLean says she has met some wonderful local people all beginning when the hospital board’s Albert Soares hired her 35 years ago, all the way to a lady who was very influential in McLean’s career.
As far as what’s on the retirement bucket list, McLean has a few plans.
myFM reached out to Foundation Chairman Mike McGuire who had this to say of McLean’s retirement.
Currently the foundation averages about $1.5 million dollars a year in patient care equipment and McLean says the eventual plan was to double that. She added a heartfelt thank you to everyone in the community she has met along the way and had the pleasure of working alongside.
Written by: C. Soares