// February 2, 2015//
Carol Y. Koenecke-Grant has been named vice president of strategic services at Winchester-based Valley Health.
She is responsible for strategic planning, marketing and public relations, communications and physician relations for the nonprofit health system.
Koenecke-Grant was the chief strategy officer for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, charged with developing and executing strategic and business development for the organization.
She also has served as senior vice president of strategic planning and marketing at Guthrie Health in Sayre, Pa., and vice president of planning and marketing at Carle Clinic Association in Urbana, Ill.
Koenecke-Grant earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology at Louisiana State University and a master’s in counseling at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.
The Valley Health system includes six hospitals: Winchester Medical Center; Warren Memorial Hospital in Front Royal; Shenandoah Memorial Hospital in Woodstock; Page Memorial Hospital in Luray; Hampshire Memorial Hospital in Romney, W.Va.; and War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs, W.Va.