Valley Medical Center executive identified in Sammamish Plateau drowning
August 16, 2012
NEW — 4:35 p.m. Aug. 16, 2012
Valley Medical Center identified the woman from a recent Sammamish Plateau drowning as hospital executive Barbara Mitchell.
Barbara Mitchell
Mitchell, 66, served as senior vice president, human resources and marketing, at the Renton hospital. Police said she left for a walk and then drowned Aug. 8 in Rainbow Lake at Issaquah-Pine Lake Road Southeast and Southeast 44th Street near Klahanie.
Investigators said Mitchell lived within a mile of Rainbow Lake.
Mitchell worked at Valley Medical Center since 1999, initially as director of human resources, and then rose to vice president of human resources and, later, to senior vice president, human resources and marketing.
