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Olson Keeps Top Job On Health Review Board

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board will keep its current chairman.

Kathryn Jean Olson has been Chair of the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board since 2013. She joined the board in 2011. Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office announced the reappointment.

Olson is Dental Director at Crusader Community Health in Rockford, where she was previously the Director of Pediatric Dental and Outreach Programs.

She also spent 12 years as Clinic Administrator at Milestone Dental Clinic in Rockford, nine years coordinating various programs in the SwedishAmerican Health System, and nearly two decades in private practice as a dental hygienist.

A Rochelle resident, she also has served on a number of professional boards and associations.

Olson earned her diploma in Dental Hygiene from Marquette University and her bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University. She also has done Speech Pathology coursework at Northern Illinois University.