VISN 12 - VA Great Lakes Health Care System
VA Great Lakes Health Care System Announces New Network Director: Daniel S. Zomchek, Ph.D., FACHE
October 5, 2022
RimaAnn Nelson, VA Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Operations, is pleased to announce that Daniel S. Zomchek, Ph.D., has been selected as the new Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 12 Network Director, effective September 25, 2022.
Zomchek has served as the VISN 12 Acting Network Director for the last five months. Prior to this detail, he served as the Director of the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2016 to April of 2022. Zomchek previously served as the Associate Director of the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois, and Associate Director at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Medical Center in Bedford, Massachusetts. Additionally, he served as a Health Systems Specialist for VISN 10, where he managed various programs and initiatives across a network of five medical centers. While in his position at VISN 10, Zomchek served as Acting Associate Director of Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan and as Acting Sub-Initiative Lead for one of the Secretary’s Major Transformation Initiatives.
Zomchek is a Certified Mentor and is board certified in Healthcare Management as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Loyola University Chicago.
The VA Great Lakes Health Care System, VISN 12, with its eight medical centers, 40 outpatient clinics, eight community living centers, and seven mental health residential rehabilitation treatment centers offers health care services to almost 800,000 Veterans who reside within its four-state (Illinois, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana) area. VISN 12 also has the country’s first fully-integrated Veterans Administration and Department of Defense medical facility, the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center.
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