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Sherman successfully tackled challenges at West Hills.

Publication: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Publication Date: 08-DEC-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sherman successfully tackled challenges at West Hills.(Special report: Valley''s health care leaders)

Article Excerpt
JIM Sherman took a shining to the field of hospital management practically fresh out of high school.

While working as a glassware washer in the lab at a local hospital back in the 1970s, he says he began to notice that it "was just not being run very well at the time."

"There was some sort of spark for me there and I knew that I could manage a hospital better than they were and so I started looking into hospital administration programs at various schools," said Sherman, a Van Nuys native.

Sherman went on to earn both a bachelor's and master's degree from Cal State Northridge in, you guessed it, health care administration.

In 1998, while working as a top-level manager at Northridge Hospital, then a UniHealth facility, Sherman, 43, got a call from a recruiter looking to fill the post of chief financial officer at West Hills....

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