Tom Doolan saved a debt-ridden Southampton Hospital from dying during a career in which he headed at least seven hospitals, operating on inefficiencies and injecting a bit of Irish music by booking world class musicians for concerts, family and friends said.

Best known as chief executive of Peconic Health Corp., a three-hospital consortium on the East End, Doolan was a "stabilizing force" at a time when many hospitals were in trouble, those who knew him said.

But more than a hospital helmsman in his 44 years of work, he was at times a homebuilder, record producer, concert booker, college professor, Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipient, painter, board member at the Peconic Landing retirement community, co-founder of an eating disorder center in Colorado, consultant at family practice cen

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