Calvary Hospital chief executive Ray Dennis has resigned from his position to spend more time with his family.
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Mr Dennis will finish as Calvary Health Care ACT chief executive on Thursday after more than five years in the role.
"I've been here nearly 5½ years. There's been a lot of change and a lot of improvement over that time and I think it's time to have a bit of a break," he said.
Mr Dennis, 56, said he was looking forward to being able to spend more time with his wife Toni and their three daughters on their farm in Goulburn.
"I'll miss it [the work] but not necessarily being on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he said. "Really, the only time when I relax is when I'm overseas, because I know I can't do anything.
"It's partly my personality and it's partly the role that whenever you're here, you're always on duty, really, so for me it's an opportunity to not be on duty and be completely present with my family and do some stuff around the farm."
"My wife has got a list so long that I think I'll be running back to another job to get away from it."
Mr Dennis, whose career in healthcare spanned 38 years, said there had been many highlights during his time as chief executive, which had included overseeing some major changes.
"When I first arrived, it was not long before the government were having discussions about whether they were going to purchase Calvary or not," he said.
"There were quite few bits and pieces that went on during that period of time and that ended up with [the] signing by the chief minister ... [of] the Calvary network agreement. That provided a platform for us to really and truly establish a true collaborative partnership between ourselves and the ACT government."
Mr Dennis said some of the things which had emerged from the partnership included initiatives such as the rapid medical assessment and planning unit, a stroke service, the Calvary Continuity of Midwifery Care Service, more hospital beds and a multi-storey carpark which will be built at the hospital in the next few years.
"There's been a growth in clinical services and we've been a significant part of improving the national targets around emergency department access and surgery," he said.