UCHealth Greeley Hospital President to retire after four decades of service
Marilyn Schock will leave lasting legacy throughout northern Colorado
Greeley, Colo. (Nov. 5, 2025) – UCHealth Greeley Hospital President Marilyn Schock announced this week that she will retire in February after serving northern Colorado for 40 years.
“I often say that northern Colorado has some of the best health care in the country, and it has been an honor to be part of it for all these years,” Schock said. “While I will miss working with the phenomenal people at UCHealth and Greeley Hospital and their passion for improving lives, the time feels right to retire and begin discovering my next purpose.”
Schock is a well-respected leader who is known for her integrity, putting patients first, a commitment to quality improvement and a love for serving the community, according to Kevin Unger, CEO of UCHealth’s Northern Colorado region.
“Marilyn has built an incredible legacy in northern Colorado,” Unger said. “Thanks to her leadership, more people in our region now have access to the high-quality care they need to live healthier lives. She also has fostered a strong, patient-centered culture that supports staff members, physicians and advanced practice providers alike.”
A graduate of Colorado State University, Marilyn began her health care career as an occupational therapist in Loveland in 1985. She served in leadership roles at Banner Health facilities, including chief executive officer at McKee Medical Center in Loveland, before joining UCHealth in 2014 as the chief operating officer of Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland and Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins.
Two years later, she was tapped to lead the design, construction and development of Greeley Hospital and the adjoining medical center. When the hospital opened in July 2019, approximately 400 employees were on staff, joined by hundreds of physicians and advanced practice professionals to bring a high level of care closer to home for UCHealth patients living in Greeley and Weld County.
Since the doors opened, the hospital has seen notable growth as well. Staff and providers on the UCHealth Greeley Campus cared for patients during almost 9,000 admissions and observation visits, 43,000 emergency room visits, almost 200,000 outpatient visits and 764 births in fiscal year 2025.
To meet the growing health care needs of the community, Schock has overseen several projects at the hospital that have increased access to care. The inpatient bed capacity has grown by more than 70 percent, from 51 to 88 licensed beds. This includes the opening of a 12-bed progressive care unit, a 20-bed acute care unit, three intensive care unit beds, and two additional labor, recovery and postpartum beds in the birth center. Other projects added operating rooms and a second emergency trauma bay and expanded the hospital’s kitchen and cafeteria. The hospital also recently launched a construction project that will expand the emergency department by nine exam rooms and three intake rooms by summer 2026.
UCHealth will soon begin a search for the next president of Greeley Hospital.
About UCHealth
UCHealth is a nationally recognized nonprofit health system that pushes the boundaries of medicine through advanced treatments and clinical trials, improving health through innovation and providing unmatched patient care in the Rocky Mountain West. Investing $1.3 billion in community benefits including $570 million in uncompensated care each year, UCHealth is Colorado’s largest Medicaid provider and dedicated to the communities it serves. With the region’s only adult academic medical center, University of Colorado Hospital on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, UCHealth includes 35,000 employees, 14 acute-care hospitals and hundreds of physicians across Colorado, Wyoming and western Nebraska.
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