CPC Names President of Key Psychiatric Facilities Division : Mental health: Kay E. Seim will head a company unit that has 38 hospitals in 17 states and Puerto Rico.

LAGUNA HILLS â€”  Kay E. Seim has been promoted to president in charge of U.S. psychiatric facilities for Community Psychiatric Centers.

She previously served as executive vice president of the same division.

Seim, 47, has spent the past six months managing the division’s newly consolidated structure and management team. She will now focus on making the system more responsive to the standards of managed care, which often seek patient care within a shorter period of time. Seim will also oversee the division’s new product development and marketing.

Seim’s division spans 38 hospitals in 17 states and Puerto Rico.

“This promotion recognizes Kay Seim’s invaluable contribution to the reorganization and revitalization of CPC’s U.S. psychiatric operations,� Richard L. Conte, chairman and chief executive officer, said in a prepared statement. He also said Seim has helped turn around the company’s California hospital operations.

Seim, who was not available Monday for comment, assumed control of the company’s psychiatric hospital division in September, 1993. Before that, she was an executive vice president with overall responsibility for 15 California hospitals.

She came to Community Psychiatric from Ramsay Health Care Inc., where she was the senior vice president and chief operating officer in charge of 17 psychiatric and chemical dependency hospitals nationwide.

Seim had previously spent 20 years with CPC, moving up through the ranks from hospital-level management positions to a regional vice president post overseeing seven facilities in seven Northwest states.

A resident of Kirkland, Wash., Seim earned her bachelor’s degree from Central Washington University, majoring in psychology and business administration. She has a master’s degree from Seattle University, with a concentration in counseling psychology.