Sandra Otterbein joins Owatonna Hospital as diagnostic services manager
OWATONNA, Minn. 01/24/2008--Sandra Otterbein has been named diagnostic services manager at Owatonna Hospital where she will be responsible for the overall operations and financial management of the hospital laboratory. With more than 12 years of experience as a medical technologist, she will provide technical oversight on all lab tests and regulatory requirements; develop strategic business plans; and manage a staff of 12 medical technologists and medical lab technicians.
Prior to joining Owatonna Hospital as the diagnostics services manager, Otterbein was the supervisor of the Immunology Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic-Rochester, as well as a medical technologist at Owatonna Hospital on a limited part-time basis. Other past experience includes serving as a medical technologist at the Olmsted Medical Center, Rochester.
Otterbein’s educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in medical technology from Winona State University; a master’s degree in clinical laboratory science from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; and a certificate in medical technology from the Myron E. Rubnitz School of Medical Technology, Chicago.
She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science. Otterbein lives in Dodge Center with her husband, Jeremy, and two sons, Ethan and Dalton. She is an active volunteer with her church and the Special Olympics.
Owatonna Hospital provides a full range of health care services including a birth center, emergency care, mental health, cardiac care, orthopedics, rehabilitation, medical imaging and surgery.
About Owatonna Hospital
The new Owatonna Hospital will be connected to the current Owatonna Clinic-Mayo Health System 26th Street location, off Interstate 35, creating a health care campus. The facility will be designed to create an environment for providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care for residents in the region.
Owatonna Hospital and Allina Hospitals & Clinics are taking a leadership role to promote healthy eating and physical activity through their heart healthy living and obesity initiatives with an emphasis on childhood obesity. Over the next five years, Allina and Owatonna Hospital will be working with community organizations to improve nutrition and increase physical activity to decrease obesity and improve heart health.
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