Most Admired CEO honoree: James Whipple of Marshall Medical Center

We're introducing you to our Most Admired CEOs. James Whipple is a Distinguished Career honoree. His job title may have said James Whipple was the CEO of Marshall Medical Center for the past 16 of his 38 years at the Placerville-based hospital, but in reality, Whipple headed up a professional rebellion. Neither his board of directors nor he ever allowed the independent hospital to get absorbed by a megalithic health care system, “like Sutter Health or Adventist Health. We frankly never saw…