St.LukesHealth Managing Director Colleen McGann announces retirement

Colleen McGann, Managing Director, St.LukesHealth

St.LukesHealth Chairman Chris Dockray has paid tribute to Managing Director, Colleen McGann,
who has announced she will retire from the organisation at the end of the year, after more than
50 years of dedicated service.

Mr Dockray said Ms McGann started with St.LukesHealth straight out of high school as a Junior
Office Clerk in 1962, working her way through the organisation from Section Supervisor to Head
Supervisor and then General Manager in 1995, being appointed Managing Director in 2000.

“In over 50 years, Colleen has been a true trail blazer, not only working her way up the
organisational ladder from the shop floor, but doing so at a time when men dominated business
life, which is a tribute to her strength and capacity to succeed,” Mr Dockray said.

“Not only has Colleen shown great loyalty to St.LukesHealth, but she has never forgotten who it is
that the organisation is there for – the members of St.LukesHealth.

“In her time with the organisation, St.LukesHealth has grown its membership base to be one of
the largest providers of private health insurance in Tasmania and this success is testament to
Colleen’s efforts.”

In 2002, Ms McGann won the Telstra Business Woman of the Year Award and is also a former
President of Launceston Rotary as well as District Director. She is currently on a number of
national boards for the private health industry.

Ms McGann said after so many years it would be a sad day when she left St.LukesHealth.
“While it will be a sad day for me to stop full-time work, I know the organisation is in safe hands
and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those people who have worked with me over
the years for all their support,” Ms McGann said.

“When I joined St.LukesHealth all those years ago, the former Managing Director Fred Edwards
said straight-up that he did not have any opposition to progressing women in the system.
“While I had to earn the opportunities, I held Fred to his word and it paid dividends.”

Ms McGann said while the process of private health insurance had not changed over the years, in
that premiums were received and claims paid out, what had really changed were the advances in
medical science over the years.

“Technology, the delivery of medical services and the types of conditions covered have changed
dramatically over the years,” she said.

“The important thing for those in the health system to remember is that the private health
system is complementary to the public system.

“Decision makers in government and the private sector have got to hold in mind that the systems
complement each other and they should work more together.

“Without private health insurance, the public health system would not work and vice versa.”

Ms McGann said after retiring, she would take a well-earned break before working out what to
do next.

“No doubt there will be other challenges in the future for me, I just haven’t worked them out yet,
but I doubt this is the last people will see of Colleen McGann,” she said.

Mr Dockray said an announcement regarding Ms McGann’s replacement was imminent.
St.LukesHealth Chairman Chris Dockray