Patty Metropulos, who has served as president and chief govt officer for nonprofit hospital visitor home Kathy’s House for 11 years, introduced plans to step down from the position throughout the first quarter of 2024.

Situated in Wauwatosa on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Middle, Kathy’s Home, offers reasonably priced lodging and assist for households who have to journey to Milwaukee for medical care.

“After 11 unbelievable years because the chief of Kathy’s Home, and with the group on enviably strong floor, I’ve determined the time has come to pause, take a breath, and contemplate different endeavors at this stage of my life,” Metropulos mentioned in a put up in LinkedIn. “I’m immensely grateful for the chance to steer a company that makes a marked distinction within the lives of sufferers in want of life-saving care and their relations. I’m proud and humbled to have labored with so many devoted folks to perform a lot: collectively, we elevated visitor occupancy, considerably grew revenues, envisioned and are working towards turning into a nationwide mannequin in hospital visitor housing, carried out a profitable capital marketing campaign, stored our doorways open and relocated throughout a pandemic and financial downturn, and greater than doubled in capability. And final however removed from least, recruited and retained an distinctive crew of employees and volunteers to meet our mission.”

The Kathy’s Home board of administrators has begun a succession planning course of and has retained Milwaukee-based govt search agency Spano Pratt to help.