20 recent hospital, health system executive moves
The following hospital and health system executive moves have been shared with or reported by Becker’s since Dec. 24:
Editor’s Note: This live webpage was created on Jan. 24 and updated on Aug. 15.
Aug. 9-15
1. Christy Maraone was appointed vice president of marketing and communications at Owensboro (Ky.) Health.
2. Paulette Woodard, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at North Richland Hills, Texas-based Medical City North Hills.
3. Valerie Helms was appointed assistant CFO of Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz.
4. Nick Arledge was appointed CEO of Merit Health River Region in Vicksburg, Miss.
5. Brian Zimmerman was appointed CFO of Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System.
6. John Outrakis was appointed associate vice president of revenue cycle applications at Philadelphia-based Jefferson.
7. Elizabeth Wise, MSN, was appointed executive vice president and COO of Lincoln, Neb.-based Bryan Health.
8. Scott Avery was appointed CEO of Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
9. Kevin Zachary was appointed CEO of Jerseyville, Ill.-based JCH HealthCare.
10. Monte Wilson, CEO of Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, La., assumed an expanded role, overseeing two additional hospitals.
11. Vanessa Roshell-Stacks was appointed vice president and COO of Indianapolis-based Riley Children’s Health.
12. Bernard Leger, CEO of Victoria, Texas-based DeTar Healthcare System, shared plans to step down from his role.
13. Alison Madden, MD, was named chief medical officer of Greenport, N.Y.-based Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital.
14. Laura Wiess was appointed CFO of Austin, Texas-based St. David’s Medical Center.
15. Eric Rinard was appointed CFO of Houston Methodist’s Cypress (Texas) Hospital and Willowbrook Hospital in Houston.
16. Jose Padron was appointed assistant CFO of Plantation-based HCA Florida Westside Hospital.
17. Tracy Griffin was appointed chief information security officer at Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health.
18. Mark Gregson was appointed interim CEO of Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, Wash.
19. Travis Battagler, BSN, was appointed CEO of Girard (Kan.) Medical Center.
20. Elisabeth King, DNP, was appointed vice president of operations for Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute and COO for Cancer Centers of South Florida.
Aug. 2-8
1. Brian DeBooth was appointed associate CFO of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health Medical Center.
2. Joseph Manopella was appointed president of St. Joseph Hospital in Bethpage, N.Y., expanding his current role within Rockville Centre, N.Y.-based Catholic Health.
3. Michael Hasselberg, PhD, RN, was appointed the inaugural chief transformation and digital officer of Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine.
4. Kenny Shafer was appointed CEO of UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham (Ala.).
5. Robert Nesselbush was appointed senior vice president and CFO of Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph’s Health.
6. Lauren French was appointed COO of St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center in Texas.
7. Hillary Rosenfeld, MSN, RN, was appointed COO of Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz.
8. Judy Young, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Bradenton, Fla.-based Manatee Memorial Hospital.
9. Lany Wahab, MD, was appointed vice president of revenue cycle at Lake Charles (La.) Memorial Health System.
10. Jeff Graham, president and CEO of Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health, plans to retire Sept. 30. COO Katherine Edrington, DNP, was appointed to succeed him.
11. Archie Drake, BSN, will join Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Sept. 8 as president of Methodist University Hospital.
12. William Van Noy was appointed CFO of Reedsport, Ore.-based Lower Umpqua Hospital District.
13. Rishi Singh, MD, accepted a new role as chair of ophthalmology at Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham.
14. Rachelle Capps was appointed vice president of managed care contracting at Hampton Roads, Va.-based Sentara Health.
15. Jerry Grannan was appointed president of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Regional Medical Center and its affiliate locations in Allen County.
16. Mike Yurkanin, MD, will serve as chief physician executive of Parkview Regional Medical Center and its affiliate locations in Allen County.
17. Nicholas O’Dell, MD, was appointed chief clinical officer of Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky., and Mercy Health-Marcum and Wallace Hospital, both in Irvine, Ky.
18. Robert Brown, MD, was appointed physician executive of Novant Health’s Greenville, S.C., area.
19. Jennifer Opsut was appointed CEO of Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz.
20. Oscar Marroquin, MD, was appointed chief administrative and operating officer at Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare.
21. David Heckman was appointed CFO of Methodist Hospital – Metropolitan in San Antonio.
22. Tiffany Means, DNP, RN, was appointed CEO of Eureka Springs (Ark.) Hospital.
23. Kim Williams was appointed CFO of Decatur (Ala.) Morgan Hospital.
24. Jonelle Thomas, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center in Texas.
25. Eric Neal was appointed CEO of Morton, Wash.-based Arbor Health.
26. Kevin Barron was appointed vice president of payer relations at San Antonio-based University Health.
27. Jim McGonnell, CFO of Los Alamos (N.M.) Medical Center, retired.
28. Tony Blair, MD, was appointed chief medical officer at Montrose (Colo.) Regional Health.
29. Stephanie Schmittou, MSN, RN, was appointed COO of Magnolia (Ark.) Regional Medical Center.
30. Ted Clark, MD, was appointed senior vice president and chief clinical officer of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health.
31. Mandy Richards, DNP, RN, was appointed president of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Children’s Health.
32. Dustin Lipson, president of Primary Children’s Hospital’s Salt Lake Campus, will serve in an expanded role as children’s market president for the Canyons Region.
33. Scott Herndon was appointed executive vice president and CFO of Beth Israel Lahey Health in Cambridge, Mass.
July 26 to Aug. 1
1. Darryl Wolfe stepped down as CEO of Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles, Wash.
2. Kent Johnson was named CFO of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth’s Central Florida division.
3. Ryan Gerds was appointed vice president of strategy and growth for the Northwest market within AdventHealth’s Central Florida division.
4. Patty Jo Toor, MSN, was named vice president and chief nursing officer for care innovations within AdventHealth’s Central Florida division.
5. Melissa Leonard, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of AdventHealth Celebration (Fla.).
6. Leah Blackwell, MSN, RN, was appointed president of nursing and patient services and chief nursing officer at UF Health Shands in Gainesville, Fla.
7. Kathy Martin was appointed CFO of Russellville (Ala.) Hospital.
8. Ellen Pollack, MSN, RN, retired as CIO of Los Angeles-based UCLA Health. Jeanne Markland was named interim CIO.
9. Landon Hise was appointed chief hospital executive at Integris Health Woodward (Okla.) Hospital.
10. Christopher Alvarez was appointed CFO of Melissa Memorial Hospital in Holyoke, Colo.
11. David Was was appointed CEO of HCA Florida Highlands Hospital in Sebring.
12. Mary Williams was appointed vice president of marketing and communications for the Central region of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health.
13. Tanya Andreadis was appointed senior vice president and chief marketing, communications and digital officer of University of Miami.
14. Alistair Erskine, MD, was appointed CIO of Pittsburgh-based Highmark Health.
15. Chase Tikker was appointed CEO of AdventHealth Lake Nona (Fla.).
16. Amar Nagaram was appointed CIO of the Medical University of South Carolina and MUSC Health.
17. Jason Barrett was appointed CEO of The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
18. Guy Hudson, MD, was appointed president and CEO of Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health.
19. Andrew McDonald was appointed Region 3 vice president of finance for Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems.
20. Noah Knisely was appointed president of Intermountain Health Platte Valley Hospital in Brighton, Colo.
21. Eric Fletcher was appointed executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Baptist Health of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville.
22. Cory Guy was appointed vice president of finance operations and analytics at Cincinnati-based UC Health.
23. Rachael Kincaid, DNP, APRN, was appointed COO of Homer, Alaska-based South Peninsula Hospital.
24. Amber Gall, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of South Peninsula Hospital.
25. Kim Barker, BSN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Heart Hospital of Austin (Texas).
26. Catherine Maloney was appointed executive vice president and COO of Annapolis, Md.-based Luminis Health.
27. R. Hal Baker, MD, the longtime CIO of York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health, retired. Alexander Petron, DO, was named interim CIO.
28. Christine Woolsey was appointed chief communication and marketing officer of Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine.
29. Chad Richard was appointed vice president of supply chain for Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
30. Jessica Lee-Hansen was appointed CFO of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health.
31. Heather King-Semple, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer for Hardeeville, S.C.-based Novant Health Coastal Carolina Medical Center and Novant Health Hilton Head (S.C.) Medical Center.
32. Matt Conrad was appointed president of Coastal Carolina Medical Center.
33. Andy Dreesen, CEO of St. Vincent Health in Leadville, Colo., shared plans to step down in mid-September. CFO Kelly Johnston, senior leaders at the hospital and Cypress Health — the hospital’s management company — will provide guidance during the transition,
34. Toni Green-Cheatwood, DO, was appointed chief clinical officer of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health’s Toledo market.
35. Angela Sklenka was appointed executive vice president and chief people officer Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University.
36. Paul Gaden was appointed CEO of Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.
37. Barbara “Barb” Martin, CEO of St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., stepped down from her role. Colleen Pawlik, MSN, was named interim CEO and will continue serving as Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare’s regional vice president of nursing operations.
38. Brian Barta, CEO of William Newton Hospital in Winfield, Kan., resigned. G.F. (Gigi) Fergus, BSN, RN, was appointed interim CEO.
July 18-25
1. Parker Pridgen, CEO of AdventHealth Apopka (Fla.), shared plans to step down from his role.
2. Emily Moorhead was appointed president of Clinton Township, Mich.-based Henry Ford Macomb Hospital.
3. Jeffrey Geoghegan, who has served as executive vice president for both Storrs-based University of Connecticut and Farmington-based UConn Health since 2022, will be return to the health system as its full-time finance chief.
4. Ganesh Persad was named vice president and CIO of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health.
5. Chris Rogerson was appointed CFO of HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress (Texas).
6. Loren Rials was named senior vice president and CFO of Thomasville, Ga.-based Archbold.
7. Greg Hembree is retiring as senior vice president and CFO of Thomasville, Ga.-based Archbold.
8. Latonya McCoy, BSN, RN, was named chief nursing officer of AdventHealth Apopka (Fla.).
9. Autum Shingler-Nace, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J.
10. Rachel Beasley was named vice president of revenue cycle at Houston-based Nexus Health Systems.
11. Ben Patel was named vice president and chief technology officer of Cincinnati-based UC Health.
12. Scott Hawig was named executive vice president and CFO of St. Louis-based BJC Health System.
13. Tim Hingtgen plans to retire as CEO of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, effective Sept. 30.
14. Kevin Hammons, president and CFO of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, was named interim CEO.
15. Jason Johnson, senior vice president and chief account officer of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, was named interim CFO.
16. David Butler, CEO of McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., was dismissed from his role.
17. Desi Shubin, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer of McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., was dismissed from her role.
18. Michael Clark was named CEO of Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital.
19. Scott Endsley was named CFO of Marysville, Ohio-based Memorial Health, effective Oct. 13.
20. Wendy Wilcox, MD, was named chief of OB-GYN at New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull.
21. Patrick Milord, MD, was named chief of anesthesia at New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull.
22. Celeste Brizzee, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Summerville (S.C.) Medical Center.
23. Tina Citro was named vice president of York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and president of WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pa.
24. Roberto Machado, MD, was appointed physician-in-chief at Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical Center.
25. Haley Biggers was named CFO of HCA New England Healthcare’s Seacoast Market, which includes Rochester, N.H.-based Frisbie Memorial Hospital and Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital.
26. Roger Rhodes was named COO of WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals, part of Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine.
27. Tom Keller was appointed president and CEO of Bay City, Mich.-based McLaren Bay Region.
28. Joel Klein, MD, was named chief digital information officer at Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health, effective Sept. 15.
29. Kevin Manemann was appointed COO of Sutter Health, effective Sept. 15.
30. Nathaniel Beers, MD, was named president and CEO of Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, N.Y.
31. Brian Moore resigned as CEO of Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Ore.
32. Scott Crawford was named CFO of Wyandot Memorial Hospital in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
33. Paul Adeogun was named COO of AdventHealth Minneola (Fla.).
34. Miles Bennett, DO, was named chief medical officer of AdventHealth Minneola (Fla.).
35. Liann Breyer was named CFO of AdventHealth Minneola (Fla.).
36. Kandy Medlen, MSN, RN, was named chief nursing officer of AdventHealth Minneola (Fla.).
37. Austin Manning was named president and CEO of Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif.
38. Michele Saysana, MD, was appointed president of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health’s metro region.
39. Kevin Flanigan, MD, CEO of Warm Springs-based Montana State Hospital, is stepping down.
40. Michelle Franklin, RN, was named chief nursing officer of Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic.
41. Zach Bork was named chief strategy and transformation officer of St. Cloud, Minn.-based CentraCare.
42. Phillip Chang, MD, was appointed system senior vice president and chief medical and quality officer at Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health.
43. Aaron Rabinowitz, PhD, was named president of University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health in Bel Air.
44. Scott Lichtenberger, MD, was named COO of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health.
July 12-18
1. Shamiq Syed was appointed CFO of Secaucus, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Hospital.
2. Wendy Horton, PharmD, was appointed senior vice president and president of adult care services at San Francisco-based UCSF Health.
3. Melina Kibbe, MD, was named the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
4. Destiney Deschenes was appointed COO of Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset, Ky.
5. David Cook was appointed chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center Health System.
6. Jason Sanders, MD, was appointed chief clinical officer at Boston Medical Center Health System.
7. Tom Patrias was appointed CEO of University Medical Center New Orleans.
8. Steve Febus, CFO of Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital, shared plans to retire in January 2026.
9. Dawn Nichols, DNP, RN, was appointed vice president of women’s and children’s services at Austin, Texas-based St. David’s HealthCare.
10. Andrew Bedi was appointed COO of Doctors Hospital of Augusta (Ga.).
11. Noah Knisely was appointed president of Intermountain Health’s Platte Valley Hospital in Brighton, Colo.
12. Stephen East was appointed CFO of Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center.
13. Callen Weispfennig was appointed CEO of Audubon (Iowa) County Memorial Hospital and Clinics.
14. Brian Craven was appointed CFO of Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Ky.
15. Tenny Thomas, MD, was appointed president and chief medical officer at Newport (R.I.) Hospital.
16. Jeff Comer, PsyD, is stepping down as CEO of Show Low, Ariz.-based Summit Healthcare due to personal health reasons. Billy Gardner, MSN, RN, the system’s chief clinical officer, was appointed interim CEO.
17. Matt Morgan was appointed senior vice president and CFO of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health.
18. Laura Magstadt, PhD, RN, became chief nursing officer at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage in February.
19. Serene Perkins, MD, joined Alaska Regional Hospital as chief medical officer in June.
20. Mark Roberts was named CEO of Alaska Regional Hospital in June.
21. Paul Durkee was named CFO of Alaska Regional Hospital in May.
22. Todd Gilbert, RN, was promoted to assistant CNO at Alaska Regional Hospital in April.
23. Bela Nand, MD, was selected as the first regional chief medical officer for Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth’s mid-America region.
24. Kathleen Healy was appointed chief legal officer of Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health.
25. Emily Chapman, MD, was appointed president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota.
26. Karey Powers was appointed chief human resources officer of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.
27. Ed Callahan was appointed chief human resources officer of Doylestown (Pa.) Hospital.
28. Al Campbell, RN, was appointed president and market leader of Silver Spring-based Holy Cross Health Maryland.
29. Pete Long-Innes was appointed CEO of TriStar NorthCrest Medical Center, a 109-bed facility in Springfield, Tenn.
30. Craig Moore was appointed CEO of AdventHealth Kissimmee (Fla.).
31. Salonia Brown was appointed system vice president of revenue cycle at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System.
32. John Stanton was appointed interim CFO of Brunswick, Ga.-based Southeast Georgia Health System following the departure of Stephen “Jan” Grigsby Jr.
33. Lukas Iwanski was appointed CFO of Port St. Lucie-based Florida Coast Medical Center.
34. Todd Bennett, DO, was appointed vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich.
35. Chris Rees was appointed senior vice president and chief quality officer at Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Bronson Healthcare.
36. Jon Sherwood was promoted to vice president of finance at Bronson Healthcare.
37. Troy Shirley, PharmD, was promoted to vice president of pharmacy at Bronson Healthcare.
38. Jeff Bross was appointed chief managed care officer at Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health.
39. Kristopher Kitz joined Tucson, Ariz.-based Carondelet Health Network as market chief strategy officer.
40. Andrew Gross, MD, was appointed chief medical officer at Mooresville, N.C.-based Duke Health Lake Norman Hospital.
July 4-11
1. John Chidsey III was named independent director at Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.
2. Duke Walker was appointed COO of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health.
3. Heather Fagan, MD, was named chair of the department of pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief at Orlando, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Hospital.
4. Joseph Everette, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at Wright, Fla.-based HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital.
5. Paari Gopalakrishnan, MD, was appointed president and CEO of Towson, Md.-based GBMC HealthCare.
6. Rachel Wasserstrom was appointed senior vice president of strategy and chief strategy officer at Concord, Mass.-based Emerson Health.
7. William Giles was appointed CEO of Magnolia (Ark.) Regional Medical Center.
8. Sony Sidhu, DNP, RN, was appointed CEO of Madera (Calif.) Community Hospital.
9. Melissa Mendoza was appointed CFO of Weslaco, Texas-based Knapp Medical Center.
10. José López, MD, chief medical officer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Holy Cross Health, has assumed the expanded role of COO.
11. Mark Evard was appointed vice president of revenue cycle operations at Galveston-based University of Texas Medical Branch.
12. Richard Riter was appointed CFO of Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health’s North Coast Service Area.
13. Paul Minardi, MD, was appointed executive vice president of enterprise clinical integration and growth at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
14. Mary Beckerle, PhD, shared plans to step down as CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute, part of Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health. Brad Cairns, PhD, Huntsman’s head of academic affairs and a professor of oncological sciences at the university, will succeed Dr. Beckerle.
15. Amy Blasing, MSN, was appointed president of Intermountain Health’s St. Joseph Hospital in Denver.
16. George Hamilton was appointed chief strategy officer of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
17. Ike Anand was appointed president and CEO of the fundraising organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
18. Lou Baverso was named Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network’s new COO, and president of AHN hospitals.
19. Ezz-Eldin “Dean” Moukamal, MD, was appointed chief quality officer of AHN.
20. Sean Barden, executive vice president and CFO of Fredericksburg, Va.-based Mary Washington Healthcare, shared plans to retire. Thomas Mathews was appointed as his successor.
21. John Nickens was appointed president and CEO of Phoenix Children’s.
22. Liz Dunne, president and CEO of Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth, will retire after a decade of service to the organization. PeaceHealth Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Sarah Ness will succeed her, effective Jan.
23. Ron Belfont was appointed interim vice president and CIO of Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth.
24. Ketul Patel was appointed president and CEO of Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System.
25. Aimee Keller-Pickford was appointed CEO of AdventHealth Winter Garden (Fla.).
26. Sheila Rankin was appointed CEO of AdventHealth Winter Park (Fla.).
27. Cliff Wilson was appointed market president and CEO of Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Health System.
28. Melissa Smith was appointed system vice president of finance at Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
29. Theresa Kloewer, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at Las Vegas-based MountainView Hospital.
30. Brian Roland was appointed CEO of Elkview General Hospital in Hobart, Okla.
31. Emily Emery-Shea was appointed CFO of King City, Calif.-based Mee Memorial Healthcare System.
32. Wyatt Chocklett was appointed CEO of Dickson, Tenn.-based TriStar Horizon Medical Center.
33. Elizabeth McNulty, DNP, RN, was promoted to chief nursing officer at Catholic Health’s St. Catherine of Siena Hospital in Smithtown, N.Y.
34. Christopher Nelson was appointed president at Catholic Health’s St. Catherine of Siena Hospital.
35. Christopher Clark was appointed assistant CFO of Richmond, Va.-based Henrico, Parham and Retreat Doctors’ Hospital.
36. Shannon Duval was appointed chief philanthropy officer of Charlotte, N.C.-based Advocate Health.
37. Patty West retired June 30 as executive CFO of the Pleasanton, Calif.-based The Permanente Medical Group.
38. Anne Gunther, DNP, RN, was appointed CEO of Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg, Ohio.
39. Lia Lansky was appointed chief well-being officer at Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care’s BestHealth Employee Well-being Program.
40. Elliot Brown was appointed senior vice president of finance at Brentwood-based Ardent Health.
June 28 to July 3
1. Wyatt Brieser was appointed CEO of Hammond-Henry Hospital, a critical access hospital in Geneseo, Ill.
2. Jeff St. Clair, president and CEO of Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., will retire in August after 17 years at the helm.
3. Dave Ressler, CEO of Aspen (Colo.) Valley Health, plans to retire in 2026.
4. Charmaine Patel, MD, was appointed senior physician executive at Bangor, Maine-based Northern Light Acadia Hospital.
5. Derek Schaff was appointed CFO of Jamestown (N.D.) Regional Medical Center.
6. Gerald Maloney, DO, was appointed chief medical officer at Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance.
7. Michael Englehart was appointed senior vice president for Franciscan Physician Network, Specialty Physicians of Illinois and Franciscan Post-Acute Services.
8. Joseph Schnecker, MD, was appointed chief medical information officer at Franciscan Alliance.
9. Tim Murphy was appointed vice president of strategy at Franciscan Alliance.
10. Debra Jaeger, MSN, RN, was appointed inaugural chief revenue officer at New York City-based Mount Sinai.
11. Bryan Mills, president and CEO of Indianapolis-based Community Health Network, plans to retire at year’s end after 40 years with the organization.
12. Ryan Lown was appointed chief administrative officer of Aspirus Wisconsin Rapids Hospital.
13. Jorge Franco was appointed CFO of West Oaks Hospital in Houston.
14. Jason Ickert was appointed CIO of Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare.
15. Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, RN, was appointed president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
16. Joel Nelson was named interim vice president and CFO of Huron (S.D.) Regional Medical Center following the planned retirement of longtime CFO Marcia Zwanziger.
17. Cliff Wilson shared plans to step down as Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health’s Central Kentucky market president and CEO of Georgetown (Ky.) Community Hospital.
18. Patrick Brown, MD, was appointed vice president and chief medical information officer at Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System.
19. Philip Karp was appointed vice president and chief technology officer at BayCare Health System.
20. Michael Owen was appointed vice president of construction, facilities and real estate at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
21. Abel Biri was appointed CEO of AdventHealth Orlando (Fla.), the flagship facility of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.
22. Ella Goss, MSN, RN, plans to retire Aug. 1 as chief executive of Anchorage-based Providence Alaska.
23. Jita Pandya Buño appointed CEO of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
24. Jean Bryll was appointed senior vice president and chief revenue cycle officer at West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health.
25. Michele Wingate was appointed CFO of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine Medical Group.
June 21-27
1. Gene Gutierrez IV was appointed CFO of San Bernadino and St. Bernadine Medical Center, both based in San Bernardino, Calif.
2. Joon Lee, MD, CEO of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, is expanding his role to become executive vice president for health affairs of Emory University and vice chair of the Emory Healthcare board of directors. The expanded role is part of Emory Healthcare’s leadership structural changes to become a more unified team. Read more about the changes here.
3. Matt Morgan, vice president and CFO of Monterey, Calif.-based Montage Health, will depart the system for a role at an unnamed health system in California.
4. Ralph Porpora was appointed vice president of information services and CIO of Browns Mills, N.J.-based Deborah Heart and Lung Center.
5. Lita Kapuscinski was appointed senior vice president of strategy and development at Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare.
6. Rick Allen retired as CEO of Warren (Pa.) General Hospital after more than a decade of leadership.
7. Don Kline, COO of Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, shared plans to retire at the end of 2025 after serving 30 years in healthcare. Wael Haidar, MD, was appointed president of clinical operations prior to Mr. Kline’s retirement to oversee all BSMH domestic market clinical and operational functions.
8. Andrew Pickens, MD, was appointed executive director of Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Health Network’s western region hospitals.
9. David Geckle, MD, was appointed assistant chief medical officer of TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center in Smyrna, Tenn.
10. John Whitlock was appointed CFO of Lawrence, Mass.-based Lawrence General Hospital and Mathuen, Mass.-based Holy Family Hospital.
11. David Schultz exited his role as president of hospital operations for Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health.
12. Yauheni Solad, MD, was appointed system vice president of clinical artificial intelligence at HCA Healthcare, based in Nashville, Tenn.
13. James Gervasoni Jr., MD, PhD, was named chair of the department of surgery at St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.
14. Siva Jonna, MD, was named chair of the department of pediatrics and physician-in-chief of The Children’s Hospital at St. Peter’s University Hospital.
15. Bessant Parker, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Fresno, Calif.-based Saint Agnes Medical Center.
16. Tom Miller, the inaugural CEO of Louisville, Ky.-based UofL Health, stepped down, effective immediately. Jason Smith, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of UofL Health, was named interim CEO.
17. Patrick Gallagher was appointed deputy executive vice chancellor of people strategy at Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Chan Medical School.
18. Rich Liekweg, CEO of St. Louis-based BJC Health System, is retiring, effective Oct. 1. BJC President Nick Barto will succeed Mr. Liekweg as president and CEO.
19. Garrett Colglazier, COO of Sabetha (Kan.) Community Hospital, was appointed CEO.
20. Sonya Boulware was appointed executive director of revenue cycle, back-end operations, at Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health.
21. William “Bill” Alley, BSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Twin County Regional Healthcare, a Duke LifePoint facility in Galax, Va.
22. John Herman was appointed president of Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
23. Steven Dorris was appointed CFO of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio.
24. Joseph Impicciche, CEO of St. Louis-based Ascension, will retire at the end of the year. Ascension President Eduardo Conrado will assume the role of CEO, effective Jan. 1.
25. C. Todd Jones‘ role at Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System was expanded to include chief strategy officer, in addition to chief ambulatory services officer.
26. Jeff Johnston was appointed president and CEO of Tulsa, Okla.-based Hillcrest HealthCare System.
27. Preston Hammock was appointed senior vice president of business and partnership development at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
28. David Theroux was appointed CEO of Hendry Regional Medical Center in Clewiston, Fla.
29. Jane Russell, PharmD, was appointed president and CEO of Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs, Va.
30. Troy Greer resigned as president and CEO of Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Health System. Michael Kueker, CEO of Lovelace Medical Group, was named interim CEO.
31. Michael Fiorina, DO, was appointed chief medical officer of Greensburg, Pa.-based Independence Health System.
32. Paul Chausse Jr. was appointed senior vice president of revenue cycle at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital.
33. Alejandro “Alex” Paya, DO, was appointed chief medical officer of the West Florida Division at HCA Florida Healthcare.
June 14-20
1. Suresh Krishnan was appointed CIO of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health.
2. Dave Henriksen will serve as the inaugural executive vice president and chief transformation officer at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
3. Heather Ambrose, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Pittsburgh-based AHN Allegheny General Hospital.
4. Jill Muir, DNP, RN, was appointed CNO of Erie, Pa.-based AHN Saint Vincent Hospital and AHN Grove City (Pa.) Hospital.
5. Michael McLaughlin, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Orlando Health’s East Florida Region.
6. Joe Nocie was appointed CFO of Palmdale (Calif.) Regional Medical Center.
7. Margaret Bollmeier was appointed president of the UNC Health Foundation and chief philanthropy officer for Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
8. Cyndee McGuire, president and CEO of Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, N.H., plans to retire next year.
9. Elizabeth Early was appointed president of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill.
10. Melanee Tiura was appointed chief administrative officer of Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital and Clinics in Laurium, Mich.
11. Kieran Harper was appointed CFO of Draper, Utah-based Lone Peak Hospital.
12. Nicole Tucker, RN, was appointed CEO of LewisGale Hospital Alleghany in Low Moor, Va.
13. Angela Davis was appointed CFO of Juneau, Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital.
14. Cynthia Dold was appointed president of Kaiser Permanente’s Washington market.
15. Jeffrey Drebin, MD, PhD, was appointed chief physician executive at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
16. Mike Angelidis, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of two hospitals in Oklahoma: SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital-Midwest and SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital-Shawnee.
17. Chris Pizzi was appointed COO and CFO of Medford, Ore.-based Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
18. Anthony Crerand was appointed associate CHRO of Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health.
19. Janette Townsend was appointed CFO of Wenatchee, Wash.-based Confluence Health.
20. Gary Herbst, CEO of Visalia, Calif.-based Kaweah Health, will retire June 30, 2026.
21. Randolph “Randy” Howard Jr. was appointed COO of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital–Needham (Mass.).
22. Omayra Mansfield, MD, was appointed vice president and chief medical officer at AdventHealth Celebration in Kissimmee, Fla.
23. Max Baumgarder, DO, will succeed Dr. Mansfield as chief medical officer of AdventHealth Apopka (Fla.).
24. Richard “Ric” Magnuson was appointed interim executive vice president and CFO of Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth.
25. Minka Schofield, MD, was appointed chief quality and patient safety officer at Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health.
26. Alice Kim, MD, was appointed vice president and chief medical officer at Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
27. Diana Glasser, MD, was appointed chief medical officer at Dignity Health–Northridge Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles.
28. Shereef Elnahal, MD, former undersecretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs and former CEO of University Hospital in Newark, N.J., was appointed president of Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University.
June 7-13
1. Kara Rother, BSN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Mercy’s Oklahoma City market.
2. Chris Allen was appointed executive vice president and health system CFO at the University of Chicago Medicine.
3. Angela Sonon, DNP, CRNP, was appointed senior vice president and COO of Penn State Health Lancaster (Pa.) Medical Center.
4. Valerie Ritter, MSN, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer of Penn State Health Lancaster.
5. Heather Coleman, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health’s Northwest Region.
6. Chris Akeroyd was appointed CIO of Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health.
7. Daniel Morissette, senior executive vice president and CFO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, will retire at the end of October.
8. Michael Fiorina, DO, was appointed chief medical officer of Butler, Pa.-based Independence Health System.
9. Andrew Knust was appointed interim CEO of Gothenburg (Neb.) Health after two executives were placed on administrative leave.
10. Cam Patterson, MD, chancellor of Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and CEO of UAMS Health, shared plans to step down due to medical and personal reasons.
11. Tonya Smith, PharmD, was appointed COO of Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health.
12. Chris Rucker was appointed chief administrative officer of Valley Health.
13. Molly Luton was appointed chief strategic communications officer at Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health.
14. Armando Llechu was appointed COO of Broward Health Coral Springs (Fla.).
15. John Bowles, PhD, RN, joined HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center in Phoenix as chief nursing officer.
16. Richard Becker, MD, was named interim president and CEO of Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, N.Y.
17. Jim McCann was appointed director of employer solutions business development at Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health.
18. Lynn Detterman was appointed president of Milwaukee-based Froedtert ThedaCare Health’s north region.
19. Allison Viramontes was appointed vice president and CFO of Jupiter (Fla.) Medical Center.
20. Charles McCoy, MSN, was appointed chief nursing officer at Austin, Texas-based St. David’s Medical Center.
21. Igho Ofotokun, MD, was selected as chair of the department of medicine and physician-in-chief at University Hospitals in Cleveland.
22. Joseph Gleason was named CEO of HCA Florida University Hospital in Davie.
23. Henrietta Skeens was appointed CFO of Reston (Va.) Hospital Center.
24. Shannon Scaturro, MSN, was appointed COO of Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
25. Andre Harvin, PharmD, was selected as the first chief pharmacy officer of Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System.
26. David Masterson was appointed president of Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital in South Boston, Va.
27. Kimberly Haverly was appointed administrator at Abilene, Kan.-based Memorial Health System.
28. Kristen Taylor, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of St. Luke’s Health-The Woodlands Hospital in Texas.
29. Tim Miner was appointed senior vice president of reimbursement at Louisville, Ky.-based ScionHealth.
30. Jason Paret shared plans to step down as CEO of Avalon, Calif.-based Catalina Island Health. Chief Strategy Officer Tim Kielpinski will succeed him.
31. Lisa Foo was appointed Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare’s first COO.
May 31 to June 6
1. Justin Birmele was appointed president and CEO of AdventHealth Gordon in Calhoun, Ga., and AdventHealth Murray in Chatsworth, Ga.
2. Abdul Khan, MD, was appointed CEO of Ochsner River Region, part of New Orleans-based Ochsner Health.
3. Jim Kelly was appointed vice president of revenue cycle for Atlanta-based Shepherd Center.
4. Clara Guixa was appointed CIO and digital officer for Baystate, Mass.-based Baystate Health.
5. Chip Kahn, longtime president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, plans to retire on Dec. 31.
6. Saad Ehtisham was appointed president and CEO of Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System.
7. Meg McConnell, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer for UP Health System – Marquette (Mich.).
8. Blair Kent, CEO of MemorialCare’s Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Long Beach, retired from the organization following a leave of absence. Frank Beirne was appointed interim CEO.
9. Anisha Sheth, MSN, APRN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Port Huron, Mich.-based Lake Huron Medical Center.
10. Amy Wimpey Knight was appointed chief administrative officer of Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children’s Health Care System.
11. Rob Rose, DNP, RN, was appointed senior vice president and chief nursing officer of St. Louis-based Ascension.
12. Frederick Garcia was appointed CFO of Edgerton (Wis.) Hospital and Health Services.
13. Jennifer Liter, DNP, RN, was appointed CEO of Carroll County Memorial Hospital in Carrollton, Ky.
14. Ryan Smith, MSN, RN, was appointed president and COO of Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial Hospital.
15. Andrew Starr, who joined Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare in 2020 as vice president and chief health operations officer, will advance to the position of president of the West Market.
16. Minal Vahora was appointed assistant CFO of Mequon, Wis.-based Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital – Ozaukee.
17. Daniel McCormick, MD, was appointed as chief clinical officer for Chicago-based Cook County Health.
18. Lauren Smith, MD was selected to serve as chief medical officer for Cook County Health.
19. Thomas Rogers, MD, was appointed vice president and chief medical officer of Cleveland Clinic Medina (Ohio) Hospital.
20. Dan Olivier was appointed CFO of Birmingham, Ala.-based American Family Care.
21. Donna Fortson was appointed senior vice president and chief revenue officer for York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health.
22. Andrew Walker was appointed senior vice president of finance and treasury at WellSpan Health.
23. Marci Cancic-Frey was appointed chief administrative officer at The University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center.
24. Russ Smith, PharmD, was appointed COO at The University of Toledo Medical Center.
25. Todd Czartoski, MD, was appointed chief physician officer of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System.
26. Christy Jordan, BSN, RN, was appointed president and CEO of Brunswick, Ga.-based Southeast Georgia Health System.
27. Dipen Parekh, MD, was appointed CEO of the University of Miami Health System and executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Miami.
28. Shaun Phillips, PharmD, resigned as CEO of Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista, Ariz., for a new role at another organization.
29. Brian Rayme was appointed executive vice president and CFO of West Reading, Pa.-based Tower Health.
30. Megan Ryan, president and CEO of Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, N.Y., shared plans to resign. Ms. Ryan is among 10 leaders who have recently left the organization or announced plans to do so, following a state-approved restructuring of the hospital’s governing board.
31. John Bowen was appointed senior vice president and president of the Triad Region at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health.
32. Chris Brown, RN, joined Novant as facility president and COO of Novant Health Thomasville (N.C.) Medical Center.
33. Jon Mercer was appointed president and COO of Novant Health Clemmons (N.C.) Medical Center.
34. Rosey Barrera, MSN, RN, was appointed interim CEO of Prime Healthcare’s Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., in addition to her role as chief nursing officer.
May 24-30
1. Lori Morgan, MD, president and CEO of Pasadena, Calif.-based Huntington Health, plans to step down from the role.
2. James Robinson was appointed executive director of revenue cycle technology and innovation at Cleveland Clinic.
3. James Leonard, DO, is leaving his position as CEO of Northwest Health-Porter in Valparaiso, Ind. Thomas Rohs, MD, current chief medical officer at Northwest Health, will serve as interim CEO.
4. Margaret Fontana was appointed CFO of Lakin, Kan.-based Kearny County Hospital.
5. Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, was selected as the inaugural chief medical officer at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
6. Mark Brady, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of AdventHealth Lenexa (Kan.) City Center.
7. Frank Vittimberga, MD, was appointed executive medical director of revenue cycle at Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.
8. Jon Dingledine, COO and CFO of Coldwater, Ohio-based Mercer Health, was appointed CEO.
9. Kari Snyder, executive director of nursing at Elkhart (Ind.) General Hospital, will become vice president of nursing at Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich.
10. Carl Risk, president of Elkhart General, will become president of Borgess Hospital and integration executive for the Ascension Michigan facilities.
11. Michael Johnson, vice president of operations at Elkhart General, will serve as the hospital’s interim president.
12. Justin Davis was appointed CFO of Fredericksburg, Texas-based Methodist Hospital Hill Country.
13. Michael Kupferman, MD, was appointed CEO of Hershey, Pa.-based Penn State Health.
14. Julie Kline was appointed chief human resources officer of Erie County Medical Center Corp., a Buffalo, N.Y.-based organization that operates a 573-bed advanced academic medical center.
15. Hollie Seeley was named CEO of Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
16. Anup Singh, MD, was appointed chief medical executive at Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center.
17. Mitch Watson was appointed CFO of Jackson Hole, Wyo.-based St. John’s Health.
18. Timothy McGahen, CFO of LECOM Health Corry (Pa.) Memorial Hospital, was appointed administrator of the hospital.
19. Sudandra Ratnasamy, BSN, was appointed CEO of Rutherford Regional Health System, a Duke LifePoint facility in Rutherfordton, N.C.
20. Anitha Srinivasan, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Metropolitan Hospital in New York City.
21. Sean Dhabalt was appointed CFO of Knoxville (Iowa) Hospital & Clinics.
22. Janelle Christie, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Onamia, Minn.-based Mille Lacs Health System.
23. Joy Coulston stepped down as CEO of Powell (Wyo.) Valley Healthcare. Her exit follows CFO Coby LaBlue’s departure. Ms. LaBlue was appointed CFO of Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health.
24. Letitia Bridges, MD, was appointed executive vice president and chief quality officer of the Permanente Federation, based in Oakland, Calif.
May 17-23
1. Mary Marshman, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Va.
2. David Brash was appointed CEO of Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, W.Va.
3. Kim Hodgkinson was appointed executive vice president and CFO of Fort Worth, Texas-based JPS Health Network.
4. Kathy Griffis, RN, chief nursing officer of Mount Pleasant, Texas-based Titus Regional Medical Center, was selected to also serve as COO in a dual role.
5. Sarah Gaskell was appointed senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
6. Dave Ramsey, president and CEO of Charleston, W.Va.-based Vandalia Health, will retire in July 2026.
7. Pat Samples, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer at Estes Park (Colo.) Health, is retiring after five years in the position.
8. Lee Montgomery, MSN, RN, was appointed clinical adult nursing director at Kaiser Permanente’s Antioch (Calif.) Medical Center.
9. Bart Carter, MD, was appointed interim CEO and administrator in charge at Mount Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford, Ariz.
10. Kriel Ramcharitar, MD, joined Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare as vice president and chief medical officer for value-based care.
11. Stephan Lillie was appointed CFO of Houston-based St. Luke’s Health’s Houston market.
12. Heather Bomstad, MSN, RN, was appointed president of OSF HealthCare Saint Clare Medical Center in Princeton, Ill., and OSF HealthCare Saint Paul Medical Center in Mendota, Ill.
13. Sarah Johnson Conway, MD, was appointed senior vice president for the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians and Physician Group Practice.
14. Kerin Da Cruz, MSN, RN, was appointed vice president and COO of UF Health Jacksonville (Fla.).
15. James Roundtree, BSN, RN, was appointed COO of PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield, Ore.
16. Jamie Youssef was appointed CEO of Ascension Texas.
17. Scott Robertson, MD, was appointed system senior vice president of the Physician Enterprise, California Region, for Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and CEO of Dignity Health Medical Foundation.
18. Gordon Wesley was appointed chief strategy and clinical integration officer at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth. See other recent leadership changes at AdventHealth here.
19. Jason Carter was appointed president and COO of Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, N.C.
20. John LaPorta was appointed CFO of Summit (N.J.) Oaks Hospital.
21. Linda Walker was appointed CEO of Llano (Texas) Regional Hospital.
22. Josh Kooistra, DO, was appointed president of Corewell Health in West Michigan.
23. Tamar Kutz was appointed interim president and CEO of Decatur (Ill.) Memorial Hospital.
24. Kimberley Allsbrook was appointed CFO of Southeastern Virginia Health System at Hampton (Va.).
25. Michele Morrison, RN, was appointed president and chief hospital executive of JFK University Medical Center in Edison, N.J.
May 10-16
1. Christian Wallis was appointed interim CEO of the Northern Inyo Healthcare District, which operates a 25-bed critical access hospital in Bishop, Calif.
2. Adrian Larson was appointed COO of Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, N.M.
3. Paula Bell, PharmD, was appointed CEO of West Tennessee Healthcare’s Henry County Hospital in Paris.
4. Sara Grambling was appointed CFO of Perry, Fla.-based Doctors’ Memorial Hospital.
5. Edmund Siy was appointed chief information and technology officer of Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health.
6. Seleem Choudhury, DNP, RN, was appointed president and CEO of UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks in Glendale Heights, Ill.
7. Carolyn Jackson was appointed CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Braintree (Mass.).
8. Shawn Reynolds was appointed CFO of the department of surgery at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
9. Jonathan Ma was appointed CFO of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health.
10. John Whitlock resigned as CEO of MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, Mass., part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. George Rizzuto was appointed interim CEO.
11. Leslie Beining, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital.
12. Christopher Strear, MD, joined Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health as chief medical officer of St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, Mont.
13. Bevan Yueh, MD, was appointed inaugural chief physician executive at Iowa City-based UI Health Care.
14. Stephanie Schnittger was appointed CFO of Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health.
15. Roberto de la Cruz, MD, was appointed chief medical officer at Medical City Forth Worth and Medical City Weatherford.
16. Ilene Moore was appointed executive vice president and chief legal officer of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.
17. Sean Lally, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of Bayside, N.Y.-based St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, was appointed president and CEO.
18. Owen Bailey, CEO of Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health, shared plans to retire. Natalie Fox, DNP, chief physician enterprise officer for the organization, was appointed interim CEO.
19. Richard Rico, vice president and CFO of Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls, Ore., shared plans to retire.
20. Michael Dowling, president and CEO of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, plans to step down in October. John D’Angelo, MD, currently executive vice president of Northwell’s central region and a 25-year veteran of the organization, will succeed him.
21. Audrey Gregory, PhD, MSN, RN, was appointed senior executive vice president and CEO of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth’s multi-division delivery network.
22. Todd Roberts was appointed CFO of Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H.
23. Michael Skehan was appointed COO of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash.
24. Traci Morris, CFO of Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health, will retire July 18. Melanie Wilson, Essentia’s senior vice president of revenue services, is serving as interim CFO.
25. Dan Barbee, BSN, who had returned to University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio as interim CEO in November, was appointed to the role permanently.
26. Mark Sparta will succeed Mark Stauder as COO of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health.
27. Kenneth Sable, MD, will serve as president of the acute care hospital division at Hackensack Meridian Health.
28. Regina Foley, PhD, was appointed president of specialty hospitals and clinical services at Hackensack Meridian Health.
29. Benjamin Mansalis, MD, was appointed chief information and digital officer of Milwaukee-based Children’s Wisconsin.
30. Alyson Cole was appointed COO of Penn Medicine Doylestown (Pa.) Health.
31. Jessica Graham was appointed CFO of Banner–University Medical Center Tucson (Ariz.).
32. Brittany J. was appointed CFO of CenterPointe Hospital of Columbia (Mo.).
33. Eric Hilmoe was appointed COO of Sanford Health’s Sioux Falls, S.D., market.
34. Megan Gray, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and COO of Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass.
35. Andrew Popelka Jr., MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Anna Jaques Hospital.
36. Allison Viramontes plans to exit her role as CFO of Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
37. S. Alan Phelps was appointed CFO of Ascension Saint Thomas River Park Hospital in McMinnville and Highlands Hospital in Sparta, Tenn.
May 3-9
1. Lori Tackett, MSN, RN, was appointed president of Via Christi St. Teresa Hospital in Wichita, Kan.
2. Drew Early was appointed inaugural COO of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health.
3. Tamara Moores Todd, MD, was appointed chief health informatics officer for Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health.
4. Jason McClellan was appointed chief clinical informatics officer for Intermountain Health.
5. Sanjeev Kumar was appointed CFO of Stockton, Calif.-based Dameron Hospital.
6. Sandra Scott, MD, was appointed CEO of New York City-based One Brooklyn Health.
7. Misty Robertson, DNP, RN, was appointed CEO of Blue Mountain Hospital District, consisting of a 25-bed hospital located in John Day, Ore., and a 40-bed care center in Prairie City, Ore.
8. Cameron Hernandez, MD, was appointed president and COO of Mount Sinai Queens in New York City.
9. Marianna Vazquez, RN, chief nursing officer and associate executive director of patient care services at Northwell Health Plainview and Syosset Hospitals in New York, will retire after a 51-year career in healthcare. Theresa Dillman, DNP, MSN, RN, will succeed Ms. Vazquez.
10. Tameka Wallace, MSN-RN, CCRN, was appointed CNO and associate executive director of patient care and perioperative services at Northwell Health’s Glen Cove Hospital in New York.
11. Ronald Sloan will retire as president of Nags Head, N.C.-based Outer Banks Health at year’s end.
12. Paige Dworak was appointed system COO of New Jersey-based Hudson Regional.
13. Michael Hochberg, MD, was appointed chief hospital executive for Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center.
14. Anna Schoenbaum, DNP, RN, was appointed chief applications officer for Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine.
15. Julian Mihai was appointed chief technology officer overseeing Penn Medicine’s technology platforms, cybersecurity, and technology implementation and delivery.
16. Ken Stevens was appointed CEO of Medical City Frisco (Texas).
17. Cheryl Cioffi, DNP, RN, was appointed president and CEO of Frederick (Md.) Health.
18. Sumeet Chugh, MD, was promoted to vice dean and chief artificial intelligence health research officer at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai.
19. Olivia Mislankar was appointed executive director of revenue cycle optimization for University of Miami Health System.
20. Rachael Prather, BSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Ferrell Hospital in Eldorado, Ill.
21. Tanner White was appointed CEO of the hospital Grand Forks, N.D.-based Altru Health System is in the process of acquiring from Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health.
22. Keri Eisenbeis was promoted to chief of staff and chief communications and marketing officer for Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System.
23. Todd Hofheins was appointed CFO of Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth.
24. Alicia Bolton was promoted to vice president of corporate accounting for Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
25. Brandon Okezie was appointed president and COO of Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield, Mass.
26. Brian Brennan was appointed president and CEO of the Hospital Sisters Health System Central Illinois Market. Mr. Brennan will also serve as president and CEO of HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill.
27. Bonnie Panlasigui was appointed senior vice president and area manager for the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Service Area.
28. Wesley (Wes) Taylor was appointed CEO of Memorial Health Meadows Hospital in Vidalia, Ga.
29. Deirdre Salanger was appointed COO of Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
30. Melissa Armstead, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer for Florence-based North Alabama Medical Center.
31. Julie Keese was appointed regional vice president of finance and CFO of Philadelphia-based Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic and Silver Spring, Md.-based Holy Cross Health.
32. Cindy Bergmeier was appointed CEO of TriStar Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tenn.
33. Lauren Cooksey, MD, was appointed department chair and physician executive of emergency medicine at Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare.
34. Megan Mickley, MD, was appointed department chair and physician executive of the pediatric service line for ChristianaCare.
35. Aimee Sznewajs, MD, will succeed Susan Sencer, MD, as clinical vice president of specialty pediatrics at Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota.
36. Tim Lander, MD, will oversee critical care services at Children’s Minnesota.
37. Robert Miller was appointed regional vice president of marketing and communications for California at Dignity Health.
38. Steven Webb was appointed president and CEO of Batesville, Ark.-based White River Health.
39. Jeff Cook was appointed president and CEO of Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Forrest Health.
40. Maitreya Coffey, MD, was appointed chief quality officer of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
41. Stephen “Jan” Grigsby Jr. was appointed executive vice president and CFO of Anderson, S.C.-based AnMed Health.
April 26 to May 2
1. Dale Gold, MD, is stepping down as chief medical informatics officer for CommonSpirit Health’s Mountain Region to serve in the same role for Kaiser Permanente Medical Foundation.
2. Tony Esposito, former CEO of Crozer Health, was appointed CEO of one of Philadelphia-based Temple Health’s physician groups and the CFO of another.
3. Christopher Goode, MD, was appointed executive vice president and chief clinical integration officer at Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine.
4. Michael Harrington was appointed executive vice president and CFO of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health.
5. Jeff Alvarez, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at UPMC Washington and UPMC Greene, both part of Pittsburgh-based UPMC Health System.
6. Jenny Way, BSN, RN, was appointed president of affiliated networks at Wichita, Kan.-based Ascension Via Christi.
7. Jon Hirsch was appointed director of marketing at Zachary, La.-based Lane Regional Medical Center.
8. Elwood Bernard “Bernie” Boone III was appointed president of Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Va.
9. Brittany Mooney was appointed CFO of Pilot Knob, Mo.-based Iron County Medical Center.
10. Collier Douglas “Doug” Long was appointed CEO of CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles.
11. Dale Neely was appointed CEO of HCA Florida Capital Hospital in Tallahassee.
12. Michelle Savoie, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and vice president of acute care services of Exeter (N.H.) Hospital.
13. Amber Deardorff, BSN, RN, was appointed president and CEO of Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa.
14. Kevin Shorten was appointed vice president and chief information and technology officer of Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, based in Santa Clarita, Calif.
15. Noel Sousa was appointed CFO of Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System.
16. Jim Bacon was appointed vice president of revenue cycle for Houston-based Nexus Health Systems.
17. Nicki Gamet, BSN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Mercy Springfield (Mo.) Communities.
18. Mike Ditoro, PharmD, was appointed CEO of Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif.
19. Justin Harris was appointed CEO of Daviess Community Hospital in Washington, Ind.
20. Bruce Eady, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Milwaukee Rehabilitation Hospital at Greenfield (Wis.).
21. Jackie Wilkerson, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Benton, Ark.-based Saline Health System.
22. Julie Covault, COO of Sidney, Ohio-based Wilson Health, was appointed acting CEO.
23. Wesley Goforth was appointed CFO of Belleville, Kan.-based Republic County Hospital.
24. Ryan Nelson was appointed senior executive adviser to the CEO at Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health.
25. Nathan Peterson returned to Sanford Health as executive vice president and chief strategy officer.
26. Nanette Wilcox, MSN, RN, was appointed president of BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel (Fla.).
27. Chris Lewis was appointed CFO of Chicago-based Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital.
28. H. John Pounardjian was appointed chief financial and administrative officer of Rutgers Cancer Institute in New Brunswick, N.J.
29. Drew Mahone was appointed executive director of revenue cycle and billing operations for Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine.
30. Kelli Yancey, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Rock Springs, Wyo.-based Aspen Mountain Medical Center.
April 19-25
1. Derek Drake, DNP, RN, was appointed president of Mercy Hospital of Buffalo (N.Y.), part of Buffalo-based Catholic Health.
2. Julie Lacy was appointed CEO of Crete (Neb.) Area Medical Center, part of Lincoln, Neb.-based Bryan Health.
3. Patrick Tuer was appointed COO of Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health.
4. Barret Rhoads was appointed CFO of Madison, Ga.-based Morgan Medical Center.
5. Divya Pathak was appointed vice president and chief data and artificial intelligence officer for New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals.
6. Kenra Ford was appointed senior vice president of clinical services operations for NYC Health + Hospitals.
7. Neil Cowles was appointed chief information and technology officer for Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
8. Chad Tuttle was appointed COO of Corewell Health in Michigan.
9. Garett May was appointed CEO and president of West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, La.
10. Kolaleh Eskandanian, PhD, the former chief innovation officer of Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital, was appointed chief strategy and innovation officer of Compremium AG.
11. Purav Modi was appointed COO of South Texas Health System’s flagship facility, South Texas Health System McAllen.
12. Sue Shugart was appointed CEO of Haywood Regional Medical Center in Clyde, N.C., and market president of two other Duke LifePoint hospitals in the state.
13. Kim Henrichsen, MSN, RN, was appointed president of SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital and SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital-St. Louis.
14. Victoria Woodrow will step down as CEO of Hamilton Memorial Hospital District in McLeansboro, Ill. CFO Justin Epperson was appointed interim CEO.
15. Brian Dieter will retire in August as president and CEO of Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa.
16. John Hennelly stepped down as CEO of Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital. Ben Armfield, the hospital’s CFO, was appointed interim CEO.
17. Brian Fong was appointed assistant vice president of revenue cycle management for Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health.
18. Jiapeng Huang, MD, PhD, was appointed chief scientific officer and associate dean for clinical research at the University of Louisville (Ky.) School of Medicine and UofL Health.
19. Krista Hatley, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of HCA Florida Lake City Hospital.
20. Wesley Burks, MD, will step down from his roles as UNC Health CEO and UNC School of Medicine dean, effective Sept. 1. Cristy Page, MD, president of UNC Health Enterprises and chief academic officer of UNC Health, was selected to serve as interim CEO and dean.
21. Kaitlan Baston, MD, was appointed interim CEO of University Hospital in Newark, N.J.
22. Cam Stockdale was appointed CFO of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health-West Hospital.
23. Cathy Bukowski was appointed CFO of Black River Falls, Wis.-based Black River Health.
24. Jennifer Crabtree was appointed president of the Tampa (Fla.) Medical & Research District. Ms. Crabtree was also named senior vice president of Tampa General.
25. Rob Anderson was appointed CEO of Lakewood Ranch (Fla.) Medical Center.
26. Steve Smoot was appointed president of Advocate Health’s North Carolina and Georgia division.
27. Lillian Montoya was appointed senior vice president for Christus Health’s New Mexico region.
28. Jodi Coombs, BSN, RN, was appointed interim president and CEO of St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.
29. Wayne Laramie, BSN, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer for McDonough District Hospital in Macomb, Ill.
30. Christine Searight was appointed vice president and chief marketing and communications officer for Fairfield, Calif.-based NorthBay Health.
31. Cheryl Cornwell was appointed CFO of Elma, Wash.-based Summit Pacific Medical Center.
32. Victor Radina was appointed chief corporate development officer of St. Louis-based SSM Health.
33. Pankaj Jandwani, MD, was appointed CIO of Midland, Mich.-based MyMichigan Health.
34. Jeanne McKerrigan departed from her role as CFO at Regional West Health Services, based in Scottsbluff, Neb.
35. Craig Krentz departed from his role as chief network officer at Regional West Health Services.
36. LaTasha Barnes was appointed CFO of Orlando (Fla.) Health’s ambulatory and post-acute care division.
37. Kenneth Matsis was appointed senior vice president and CFO of Southern New Hampshire Health in Nashua.
38. Michelle McGuire joined Morehouse School of Medicine as executive vice president of business affairs and COO.
April 12-18
1. Brian Hatfield was appointed CFO of Mesa-based Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital.
2. Andy Munce, MSN, RN, was appointed president and CEO of Sanford Health’s Sioux Falls, S.D., region.
3. Hasnain Naqvi was appointed director of revenue cycle for Warsaw, Ind.-based Bowen Health.
4. Malissa Dupree was appointed associate director of billing for Bowen Health.
5. Emily Smith was appointed associate director of patient access for Bowen Health.
6. Joseph MacDonald, DO, was appointed chief medical officer of Penn State Health Lancaster (Pa.) Medical Center.
7. Hank Grinold was appointed COO of HCA Florida Blake Hospital in Bradenton.
8. Robert Parker, CEO of Columbus, Ga.-based St. Francis-Emory Healthcare, exited the role. Bill Little was appointed to the helm.
9. Brian Canfield stepped down as CEO of Quincy, Ill.-based Blessing Health System. Tim Tranor, DNP, RN, BSN, who serves as chief nursing officer, was appointed COO and interim CEO.
10. Misty Jones, MSN, RN, was appointed president and CEO of Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley in Pleasanton, Calif.
11. Christopher Wyatt was appointed COO of Johnstown, Pa.-based Conemaugh Health System.
12. Carey Roach was appointed vice president of mid-revenue cycle for Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health.
13. Elva Sipin was appointed COO of PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Wash.
14. Hatch Smith Jr. resigned as CEO of Llano (Texas) Regional Hospital on April 15 to take another job.
15. Mairilise Pothin-Owen was appointed senior vice president and CFO of AdventHealth DeLand (Fla.), Orange City, Fla.-based AdventHealth Fish Memorial and Tavares, Fla.-based AdventHealth Waterman.
16. Brett Kinman will resign as CEO of Magnolia (Ark.) Regional Medical Center, effective July 9.
17. Kerry Ashment was appointed CEO of Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawlins, Wyo.
18. Mark Esser, PhD, was appointed the inaugural chief scientific officer and head of the upcoming Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology at Charlottesville-based University of Virginia.
19. Christopher Ward, MD, joined St. Mary’s Health Care System in Athens, Ga., as chief medical officer.
20. Luis Pacheco was appointed vice president of operations for HCA Florida West Marion Hospital in Ocala.
21. Gabe Bullaro was appointed CEO of HCA Florida North Florida Hospital in Gainesville.
22. Tony Esposito will step down as CEO of Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health, effective April 18. Greg Williams, president of Prospect Medical Holdings’ East Coast operations, will serve as interim CEO.
23. Micky Tripathi, PhD, former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, was appointed chief AI implementation officer at Mayo Clinic.
24. Nicole Whims, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Dignity Health St. Bernadine Medical Center in San Bernardino, Calif.
25. Gerald Cayer will retire as CEO of Lowville, N.Y.-based Lewis County Health System, effective Aug. 3, 2026.
26. Timothy Benton, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Odessa, Texas-based Medical Center Health System.
27. Julie Freischlag, MD, CEO and chief academic officer of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, will retire at year’s end.
28. Tony Morrison was appointed vice president and chief revenue cycle officer for Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health.
29. Charles Brinkley III was appointed senior vice president and CFO of Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care.
30. Cameron Howard was appointed CEO of Oviedo (Fla.) Medical Center.
April 5-11
1. Peter DiDio was appointed senior vice president and CFO of Concord, Mass.-based Emerson Health.
2. Kim Needham was appointed CEO of Waukegan, Ill.-based Vista Health System.
3. Ruth Kain, PhD, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer for HCA Mission Health in North Carolina.
4. Kent LaCroix was appointed interim CEO of Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital in Manistique, Mich.
5. DeAnn Bullock, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Nashville General Hospital in Tennessee.
6. Trey Wicke was appointed CFO of Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital – Plano (Texas).
7. Ryan Caldwell was appointed CFO of Springfield (Ill.) Clinic.
8. Joshua Champion was appointed COO of AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach (Fla.).
9. Ann Marie Creed was appointed president of University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Lansing.
10. Kimberly Russo was appointed CEO of the central region for Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare.
11. John McDonald was appointed president and CEO of Kerrville, Texas-based Peterson Health.
12. Victoria Hanson, PhD, was appointed regional president and CEO of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, S.D.
13. Mitch Leckelt, CEO of UP Health System-Bell in Ishpeming, Mich., will retire in June. Following his departure, Tonya Darner, CEO of UP Health System-Marquette (Mich.), will assume an expanded role as market CEO for both Marquette and Bell hospitals. Alyson Sundberg, vice president of operations at Maquette, will assume the COO role at Bell.
14. Timothy Dentry, president and CEO of Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health, plans to retire this calendar year.
15. Amy Chatterton was appointed CFO of Aiken (S.C.) Regional Medical Centers.
16. Ricky Yates, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Williamson Health in Williamson County, Tenn.
17. Greg Jackson was appointed president and COO of Spaulding Rehabilitation, part of Somerville-based Mass General Brigham.
18. Richard Allen will retire June 30 as CEO of Warren General Hospital in Erie, Pa. Dan Grolemund will succeed Mr. Allen.
19. Joe Perry was appointed CFO of AdventHealth Littleton (Colo.).
20. Doug Shirley was appointed CFO of Louisville, Ky.-based ScionHealth.
21. Casey Batten, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games by Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai.
22. Hannah McRae, CFO of Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health, was appointed CEO.
23. Harry Wiggins was appointed CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Petersburg, Va.
24. Catherine LoPresti was appointed vice president of professional revenue cycle operations for Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health.
25. Mallik Chowdary Yenigella was appointed CEO of Scenic Mountain Medical Center in Big Spring, Texas.
26. Karen Pinsky, MD, was appointed permanent CEO of Penn Medicine’s Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa.
27. Thea Campbell was appointed vice president of mid-revenue cycle for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care.
28. Brenda Cadorette, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing executive for Pittsfield, Mass.-based Berkshire Health Systems.
29. Charles Briscoe submitted his resignation as president and CEO of Warner Robins, Ga.-based Houston Healthcare. The resignation is effective at the close of the merger between Houston Healthcare and Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare.
March 29 to April 4
1. Pierre Monice was appointed president and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Holy Cross Health.
2. Gina Melby was appointed CEO of Alan B. Miller Medical Center, a 156-bed hospital slated to open in spring 2026 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
3. Dr. Devendranath Reddy Mannuru was appointed chief medical officer of Essentia Health’s West market, which includes the health system’s operations in Western Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota.
4. Robert Kopec, MD, was appointed chief medical officer and vice president for Clearwater, Fla.-based Morton Plant Hospital.
5. Deirdre Blaus was appointed chief administrative officer at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville, N.J.
6. Jeanette Foulk was appointed chief revenue officer for Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health.
7. Brad Griffin was appointed CEO of Fairview Park Hospital in Dublin, Ga.
8. Shannon Fernandez was appointed CFO of Anacortes, Wash.-based Island Health.
9. Thomas Klemond, MD, was appointed interim CEO of Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare.
10. Mark Marhon Jr. was appointed CFO of Winter Garden, Fla.-based Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital.
11. David Banks was appointed president and CEO of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.
12. Amanda Lowry was appointed senior vice president of revenue cycle for Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare.
13. Gregory LaFrancois was appointed senior vice president of Andover, Mass.-based Covenant Health and president of Bangor, Maine-based St. Joseph Healthcare.
14. Julie Eastman was appointed CIO of Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth.
15. Heather Dunn was appointed chief revenue officer for Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health.
16. Alec Grabowski was appointed president of OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Ill.
17. Michelle Waller, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Granite City, Ill.-based Gateway Regional Medical Center.
18. Anthony Sunzeri was appointed CFO of Gateway Regional Medical Center.
19. Benjamin Hughes was appointed CEO of Moberly (Mo.) Regional Medical Center.
20. Sean Patterson was appointed CEO of Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital.
21. Nicholas Smyrnios, MD, was appointed associate vice president and chief quality officer of UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Memorial Medical Group in Worcester, Mass.
22. Monica Cintado was appointed senior vice president of development for Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.
23. James Longabaugh, DO, CEO of Sabetha (Kan.) Community Hospital, shared plans to step down in mid-summer.
24. Dave Caspers was appointed COO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health.
25. Alec Kimmelman, MD, PhD, was appointed CEO of New York City-based NYU Langone Health and dean of NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
26. Brandon Barrett was appointed assistant CFO for Atlantis, Fla.-based HCA Florida JFK Hospital.
27. Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, has been appointed clinical service chief of emergency medicine at Oklahoma City-based OU Health and founding chair of the new department of emergency medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.
28. Kristi Baker was appointed senior executive for AdventHealth for Children in Orlando, Fla.
29. Kathy Vancampen was appointed CEO and market president of Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg, Ky., and Meadowview Regional Medical Center in Maysville, Ky.
30. Cecil Miller III was appointed president and CEO of UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital in Norwich, N.Y.
31. Melanie Wetmore, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer of HCA Healthcare’s Mission Health in Asheville, N.C., will depart her role, with plans to take on another nursing leadership role within HCA.
32. Matt Schnur, PharmD, was appointed president of Butler Memorial and Clarion hospitals in Pennsylvania.
33. Michael Sekhon, PharmD, is being promoted to system vice president of ancillary services for Butler, Pa.-based Independence Health System — an expansion of his current role.
34. Elizabeth Albaugh, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Port Charlotte-based HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital.
35. James Tita, MD, is retiring as chief clinical officer at Toledo, Ohio-based Mercy Health–St. Vincent Medical Center.
March 22-28
1. Bill Waechter was appointed market CEO of San Antonio-based Baptist Health System.
2. Kelly Jo Golson was appointed executive vice president and chief brand and external affairs officer for Houston-based Texas Children’s.
3. Corey Jackson was appointed chief human resources officer for Texas Children’s.
4. Heather Masters, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Va.
5. Ross Kemp was appointed COO of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H.
6. Jessica Bartell, MD, was appointed chief medical information officer for Risant Health, the nonprofit formed by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente.
7. Tina Eden, RN, was appointed CEO of Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, Iowa.
8. Lawrence Barnard was appointed president of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health’s planned children’s hospital in Las Vegas.
9. Marissa Kiefer was appointed president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s and UH MacDonald Women’s hospitals, both in Cleveland.
10. Stefanie Gefroh, MD, was appointed president of Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health’s west market.
11. Lynnette Focht was appointed assistant vice president of human resources for Marysville, Ohio-based Memorial Health.
12. Travis Francis was appointed administrator of Ascension Via Christi Rehabilitation Hospital in Wichita, Kan.
13. Joshua Champion was appointed COO of AdventHealth New Smyrna Beach (Fla.).
14. Jennifer DeCubellis will step down May 10 as CEO of Minneapolis-based Hennepin Healthcare System.
15. Reba Celsor, RN, was appointed CEO of Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray, Ky.
16. Kelly Haynie was appointed CEO of Ochsner Medical Center-West Bank Campus in Gretna, La.
17. Stephanie Clements, BSN, RN, was promoted to chief nurse executive for Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy.
18. Stephen DelRossi resigned as CEO of Bishop, Calif.-based Northern Inyo Healthcare District, which operates a 25-bed critical access hospital. Allison Partridge, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer and COO, is serving as acting CEO on an interim basis.
19. Richard Zane, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth.
20. David Chickocki was appointed CFO of Brookfield, Mo.-based Pershing Health System.
21. Machelle Allen, MD, will retire March 31 after a nearly 50-year career at NYC Health + Hospitals.
22. Russ Johnson, who has served as president and CEO of Lawrence, Kan.-based LMH Health since 2016, will retire in August.
23. Sam Bajaj was appointed COO of Providence Clinical Network.
24. Brian Evans was appointed COO of Savannah, Ga.-based Optim Health System.
25. Darlene Stromstad, president and CEO of Utica, N.Y.-based Mohawk Valley Health System, will retire in late 2025.
26. Mihaela Bujoi, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for St. David’s Round Rock (Texas) Medical Center.
27. Jesus Delgado was appointed chief digital and information officer for Concord (N.H.) Hospital Health System.
28. Cindy Bo was appointed the inaugural chief of Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health Children’s.
29. Caswell Samms III was appointed executive vice president and CFO of Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children’s Health.
30. Katie Barnes was appointed COO of City of Hope Phoenix.
31. Beth Carlson was appointed chief revenue officer for Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine.
March 15-21
1. Michael Waisbrot, vice president and chief technology officer for Madison, Wis.-based UW Health, will assume responsibilities related to the chief information and digital officer role on an interim basis.
2. Lorrayne Ward was appointed chief strategy officer of Renton, Wash.-based Providence’s North Division.
3. Ed Curtis, CEO of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health, will retire on March 31. Mandy Eaton, PhD, will succeed Mr. Curtis as president and CEO, effective April 1.
4. William Porter, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for HCA Houston Healthcare West.
5. David Cohen, MD, PhD, was selected as chair of the department of medicine at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, effective July 1.
6. Jinoos Yazdany, MD, was appointed inaugural executive director of AI monitoring in clinical care at San Francisco-based UCSF Health.
7. Diana Richardson was appointed interim president and CEO of Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital and Holy Family Hospitals.
8. Josh Reed, DO, was appointed assistant chief medical information officer at Abilene, Texas-based Hendrick Health.
9. Shannon Johnson, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Aberdeen, Wash.-based Harbor Regional Health.
10. Steven Daniel was appointed president of St. Luke’s Health-Patients Medical Center in Pasadena, Texas.
11. Kyle Sims started a new role as market vice president of ambulatory and post-acute services at Houston-based St. Luke’s Health.
12. Mary Jo Cagle, MD, will step down as president and CEO of Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health, effective May 31.
13. Cherodeep Goswami was appointed CIO of Renton, Wash.-based Providence.
14. Michael Herron was appointed CFO of Methodist Hospital in San Antonio.
15. Mark Kimball was appointed COO of Southwell Medical, an acute care facility in Adel, Ga.
16. John Phipps, MD, was appointed chief clinical officer for Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health.
17. Nathan Worley was appointed CEO of The Hospitals of Providence-Transmountain Campus in El Paso, Texas.
18. Alan Weiss, MD, was appointed senior vice president of clinical advancement for Phoenix-based Banner Health.
19. Deepak Sadagopan joined Risant Health, the nonprofit formed by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, as business lead.
20. Chris Cable, MD, chief clinical officer of KP Medical Foundation, will oversee clinical capabilities at Risant.
21. Marc Mora, MD, executive medical director for Washington Permanente Medical Group, will focus on clinical network design and value-based strategies at Risant.
22. Joseph Anton was appointed COO of Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center.
23. Annette White has been named chief administrative officer at Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, overseeing real estate and human resources.
24. Ryan McDonough, DO, was appointed chief medical officer for Northwest Hospital in Springdale, Ark.
25. Anita Chou was appointed CFO of Adventist Health’s Glendale and Simi Valley service area, part of the Roseville, Calif.-based system.
26. Raymond Moreno, MD, was appointed chief executive of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland and Providence Oregon’s west service area.
27. Felix “Drew” Bigby was appointed CEO of Lower Keys Medical Center in Key West, Fla.
28. Jim Heckert, CEO of Christus Southern New Mexico in Alamogordo, will retire on March 31. Reuben Murray, CFO of Christus St. Vincent Health System in Santa Fe, N.M., was appointed interim CEO.
29. Dennis Lennon was appointed senior vice president and chief human potential officer of Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System.
30. Joyce Soule, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing executive of HCA Healthcare’s Central and West Texas division and Austin, Texas-based St. David’s HealthCare.
31. Craig Henneman was appointed president of CentraCare-Willmar (Minn.).
32. J. Michael Kramer, MD, was appointed chief medical information officer for Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
33. Mark Kandrysawtz was promoted to senior vice president and chief innovation officer for York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health.
34. Leslie Lawson was appointed president of WVU Medicine Summersville (W.Va.) Regional Medical Center and WVU Medicine Braxton County Memorial Hospital in Gassaway, W.Va.
35. Jason Kell was appointed CFO of Providence’s Los Angeles Valley Service Area.
36. Sirisha Talari, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Jacksonville, Fla.-based HCA Florida Memorial Hospital.
March 8-14
1. Eric Stevens was appointed COO of Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health.
2. Joan Pirrung, MSN, APRN, was appointed interim president of ChristianaCare Cecil County Campus in Elkton, Md.
3. Jason Shockey was appointed COO of Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in Silver Spring, Md.
4. Dave Henry, CEO of Havre-based Northern Montana Health Care, will retire April 1. Kevin Harada, MD, who has served as an internal medicine physician at Northern Montana and previously held the role of chief of staff, will succeed Mr. Henry.
5. Neil Meltzer plans to retire as president and CEO of Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health. He will lead the health system until a successor is chosen.
6. Megan Brosious was appointed executive vice president and COO of Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.
7. Tiffany Powell, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of New York City-based Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
8. Michael Coffey was appointed CFO of Phoenix-based Valley Hospital.
9. Tim Williams was appointed COO of AdventHealth DeLand (Fla.).
10. Alric Simmonds, MD, was appointed chief physician executive for Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.
11. Emily Goertz was appointed associate vice president and chief revenue officer for Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare.
12. Gray Goncz, DO, was appointed president and chief restructuring officer for Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull of Warren, Ohio.
13. Cole Stockton was appointed CEO of Highpoint Health-Riverview in Carthage, Tenn., and Highpoint Health-Trousdale in Hartsville, Tenn.
14. Patricia Donley, DNP, RN, was appointed senior vice president and chief nursing executive for WellSpan Health in York, Pa.
15. Juan Salazar, MD, was appointed physician-in-chief for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and chair of the department of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, both in Nashville, Tenn.
16. Jeff Ehlers is retiring as CFO of Marysville, Ohio-based Memorial Health.
17. Mark Murrill was appointed COO of AdventHealth Porter in Denver.
18. Aaron Byzak was appointed interim CEO of the Grossmont Healthcare District in La Mesa, Calif.
19. Sarah Tuley was appointed president of Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, S.C.
20. Michael Cornehls was appointed CFO of Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
21. Veronica Elders, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer of Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital, was appointed acting manager.
22. Dianne Aroh, MS, RN, was appointed senior vice president and chief nursing officer for Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, both part of New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System.
23. Liz Martin will retire in June as president of VCU Health Tappahannock (Va.) Hospital.
24. Robert Parker was appointed CEO of Columbus, Ga.-based St. Francis-Emory Healthcare.
25. Sarah Fleming, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital.
March 1-7
1. Angela Rivera, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO and chief nursing officer of Summers County ARH Hospital in Hinton, W. Va.
2. Joey Preast was appointed COO of Beckley (W. Va.) ARH Hospital.
3. Steven Benedict, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Norwalk, Ohio-based Fisher-Titus Medical Center.
4. Nicholas Gavin, MD, was appointed vice president, chief clinical innovation officer and associate chief medical information officer at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.
5. Tiffany Northern was appointed president of Texas Health Hospital Frisco.
6. James Shmerling, DHA, president and CEO of Hartford-based Connecticut Children’s, plans to retire at the end of 2025 after a decade of leadership.
7. Steve Eblin, president and CEO of UNC Health Rockingham in Eden, N.C., plans to retire Dec. 23.
8. Mark Slyter, DSc, was appointed president and CEO of Topeka, Kan.-based Stormont Vail Health.
9. Dwayne Oxley was appointed interim CFO of Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Hospital and Medical Center.
10. David Sinclair, MD, was appointed president and CEO of AdventHealth Daytona Beach (Fla.).
11. Casey Fleckenstein, BSN, RN, was appointed administrator for Monroe County Hospital in Forsyth, Ga.
12. Anjali Rao, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Redwood City, Calif.-based Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital.
13. Kris Green was promoted to vice president of human resources at Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, N.Y.
14. Mark Klosterman, president and CEO of Sidney, Ohio-based Wilson Health, will retire April 11.
15. Joshua Keithley, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs (Ark.).
16. Kelley Kostich, PhD, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing executive at Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System.
17. Mary Lou Tate was appointed CFO of PeaceHealth’s Oregon network.
18. Robert Mattix was appointed senior vice president and chief revenue officer for Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System.
19. Ena Williams, PhD, RN, was appointed chief nurse executive of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health.
20. Edward Jimenez was appointed as the next president and CEO of Main Line Health in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
21. Leigh Williams was appointed CIO of Fishersville, Va.-based Augusta Health.
22. Josh LaFleur was appointed regional market president for Penn Highlands Healthcare’s southwest region, which includes the hospitals Penn Highlands Connellsville (Pa.) and Penn Highlands Mon Valley in Monongahela, Pa.
23. Troy Schmit was appointed vice president and chief quality officer for Beebe Healthcare in Lewes, Del.
24. Steve Baker, president and COO of Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health since August, was appointed president and CEO.
25. Tara Richardson was appointed vice president of revenue cycle management for Brentwood, Tenn.-based Quorum Health.
26. Michael Hall was appointed CEO of Gadsden (Ala.) Regional Medical Center.
27. LaDon Toole was appointed CEO of Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Ga.
28. Blake Evans was appointed system vice president of revenue cycle for Chicago-based Rush University System for Health.
29. Karyn Wallace was appointed president and CEO of WVU Medicine Uniontown (Pa.) Hospital.
30. Glorimar Medina, MD, was appointed CEO of hospital campuses, overseeing Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, both in Houston.
31. Jennifer Small was promoted to CEO of ambulatory care services at Bellaire, Texas-based Harris Health.
32. Kiki Teal, previously vice president of correctional health, was named CEO of correctional health at Harris Health.
33. David Paniry was appointed CFO of HCA Florida Aventura Hospital.
Feb. 22-28
1. Michael Cornehls was appointed CFO of Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based Broward Health North.
2. Jason Levy was appointed CFO of Boston-based Fenway Health.
3. Gina Anderson, BSN, MPPM, was appointed COO of Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Ala.
4. Maureen Gaffney was named CIO of Jackson Hospital.
5. Jonathan Nedrelow, MD, was named chief medical officer for Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children’s Health Care System.
6. Kevin Greene was appointed president of Cook Children’s Medical Center-Prosper (Texas).
7. Spencer Seals was promoted to senior vice president of construction and real estate for Cook Children’s Health Care System.
8. Tara Allen was appointed vice president of primary and specialty services for Cook Children’s Health Care System.
9. Teresa Baker was appointed vice president of primary and specialty services, administration for Cook Children’s Health Care System.
10. Sheralyn Hartline, DNP, RN, was appointed vice president of nursing and patient care at Cook Children’s Medical Center-Prosper.
11. Merridth Simpson was named vice president of human resources and occupational health for Cook Children’s Health Care System.
12. Laura Van Hoosier was appointed vice president of public relations and corporate communications for Cook Children’s Health Care System.
13. Joseph Webb, DSc, will step down as CEO of Nashville (Tenn.) General Hospital.
14. Abha Agrawal, MD, resigned as president and CEO of Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital and Holy Family Hospitals. Robin Hynds, MSN, RN, Lawrence General’s COO, will serve as acting CEO.
15. Fredrick Gainey was promoted to vice president of operations for Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, N.C.
16. Scott Wester was appointed president and CEO of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health, effective April 7.
17. Derek Wood was appointed CFO of Bloomington, Ind.-based Monroe Hospital.
18. Lisa Klenke, RN, CEO of Coldwater, Ohio-based Mercer Health, will retire June 30.
19. Rick Hundorfean was appointed COO of the MUSC Health-Charleston Division in South Carolina.
20. Keri Noeske, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and vice president at Kinston, N.C.-based UNC Health Lenoir.
21. Ava Collins was appointed president of Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
22. Sandra Sneed was named CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in Brooklyn.
23. Kevin Jenkins was appointed president of Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, Colo.
24. Anthony Leazzo, DO, was appointed chief medical officer of Morris (Ill.) Hospital and Healthcare Centers.
25. Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD, was appointed clinical service chief for Oklahoma City-based OU Health.
26. K. Craig Kent, MD, resigned as CEO of Charlottesville-based UVA Health and executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Virginia.
27. Ted Wang was appointed CFO of Walnut Creek, Calif.-based John Muir Health.
28. Craig Kinyon, president and CEO of Richmond, Ind.-based Reid Health since 2008, has taken an indefinite leave of absence. Vice President of Finance and CFO Ben Wells was appointed acting president and CEO.
29. Robert Blenderman was appointed president of Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital and executive vice president of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health.
30. Tammy Needham, DNP, was appointed chief nursing officer at Pullman (Wash.) Regional Hospital.
31. Anthony Cancro was appointed chief development officer of Greensburg, Pa.-based Independence Health System.
32. Dave Graber was appointed COO of Daviess Community Hospital in Washington, Ind.
33. Annette Morgan was appointed COO of City of Hope Orange County (Calif.).
34. Matt Pruitt was promoted to vice president and CFO of Memorial Hermann Health System’s TIRR Memorial Herman and Texas Medical Center campus in Houston.
35. Tolu McKenzie, MD, was appointed vice president and chief medical information officer of Orlando (Fla.) Health.
36. Daphne David was appointed president and CEO of Ascension St. Thomas Rutherford in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
37. Chris Mosley stepped down from his role as CEO of HCA Florida Capital Hospital in Tallahassee.
38. Eve Cunningham, MD, Providence’s chief of virtual care and digital health, left the Renton, Wash.-based health system for a new role at Cadence.
39. Julie Moore, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at Syracuse, N.Y.-based St. Joseph’s Health.
40. Stephanie Bushart was appointed system vice president and CFO of operational finance for New Orleans-based Ochsner Health.
41. Matthew Harinstein, MD, was appointed vice president and associate chief medical officer for New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health.
42. Vanessa Bershad was appointed to a new role in AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division: vice president of strategy and growth for the central market region.
43. Kandy Medlen, MSN, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer at AdventHealth Minneola (Fla.).
44. Tracy Neally, MSN, RN, was appointed vice president of nursing workforce development and advancement for AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division.
45. Andrew Taylor was appointed vice president of strategic transactions for AdventHealth Medical Group in AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division.
46. David Torres was appointed vice president and CFO for AdventHealth Celebration (Fla.).
47. Jason Jones was appointed vice president of strategy and growth for AdventHealth Medical Group and non-acute in the central Florida division.
48. José Rosado was appointed CEO of Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Myers (Fla.).
49. Mark Holyoak, BSN, was appointed CEO of Castleview Hospital in Price, Utah.
50. Courtney Vose, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital.
51. Vishwas Patel, MD, was appointed chief clinical officer for Suffolk, Va.-based Bon Secours Hampton Roads.
52. Daly Standish was appointed CFO of MountainStar Healthcare’s Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah.
53. Whitney Fenyak was appointed CEO of HCA Healthcare’s Parkland Medical Center in Derry, N.H.
54. Meagan Rothrock-Magana, MSN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer for OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine Medical Center in Dixon, Ill.
55. Alex Paraison was appointed vice president of revenue cycle for Dallas-based Scottish Rite for Children.
56. Robert Jepson was appointed COO of AdventHealth Daytona Beach (Fla.).
57. Karen McConnell, PharmD, assumed the chief pharmacy officer role at Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine.
58. Thomas Burke was appointed chief administrative officer for Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, N.J.
Feb. 15-21
1. Christy Pehanich was appointed senior vice president of revenue cycle operations at Excalibur Data Driven Performance Management. Ms. Pehanich joins Excalibur after holding roles at Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.
2. Manjula Julka, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
3. Amy Fallon, PhD, was appointed president of regional operations at Children’s Mercy Kansas City (Mo.).
4. Steven Leeder, PharmD, PhD, was appointed executive vice president and chief scientific officer of Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
5. Stephanie Meyer, RN, chief nursing officer, was promoted to executive vice president, chief nursing executive and COO for inpatient operations at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
6. Tomi Pastinen, MD, PhD, was appointed vice president and associate chief medical officer for clinical and research integration at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
7. David Ross was named CFO of Corona, Calif.-based KPC Health.
8. Jared Friedman, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of the Avera McKennan region at Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center.
9. Laura Hinson was named medical group services CFO at Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health.
10. Donna Anthony was appointed senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.
11. Catherine Bollard, MD, was appointed senior vice president and chief research officer of the Children’s National Research Institute.
12. Molly Biwer was appointed chief marketing officer of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare.
13. Thomas Bowden was appointed CEO of HCA Healthcare’s Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H.
14. David Nalepinski joined Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health as vice president of the cancer service line.
15. Nicole Dollison was appointed president and CEO of WVU Medicine Jefferson Medical Center in Ranson, W.Va.
16. Melanie Bull was appointed chief advocacy officer at Ascension Saint Thomas in Nashville, Tenn.
17. Scott Evans, senior vice president and CEO of Sharp Regional Hospitals, was appointed chief strategy officer and market CEO at San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare.
18. Carole Billington, MSN, RN, was appointed president and chief nursing officer of Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, Mass.
19. Paula Brooks, DNP, was appointed inaugural associate vice president of advanced practice providers for MCV Physicians, part of Richmond, Va.-based VCU Health.
20. Crista Durand was appointed president and CEO of New Britain, Conn.-based Hospital for Special Care.
21. Deb Lienhardt is now executive vice president, chief business development and legal officer for West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health.
22. David “Dave” Rahija was appointed president of Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill.
23. Paula Stabler, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Van Wert (Ohio) Hospital.
24. Jen Rosati was appointed CFO of Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System.
25. David Hall was appointed chief philanthropy officer of York (Maine) Hospital.
26. Isaac Sendros, president and CEO of AdventHealth Redmond in Rome, Ga., was appointed president and CEO of AdventHealth Georgia.
27. Rick Majzun, executive vice president and COO at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, was promoted to president and COO.
28. Rebecca Hutton Schulkowski, PharmD, was appointed COO of UNC Health Nash in Rocky Mount, N.C.
29. Laurie Labarca was appointed president of Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, Kan.
30. Khelsea Bauer was appointed president and CEO of AdventHealth DeLand (Fla.).
31. Marie Moore, BSN, was appointed president of Mercy Washington and Lincoln communities, part of St. Louis-based Mercy’s eastern Missouri region.
32. Denten Park was appointed CEO of Tenet Healthcare’s St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and its Massachusetts market.
33. Teresa Rasmussen, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and vice president at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill.
34. Michael Kelley, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of the Greenville market at Greenville, S.C.-based Bon Secours St. Francis.
35. Tina Hodges was appointed vice president of reimbursement and revenue integrity for Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System.
36. Ed DeVaney was named president of CVS Caremark.
37. John Mordach left his role as executive vice president and CFO of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health, effective Feb. 14. Thomas Marchozzi, Jefferson’s chief integration officer and former CFO of Lehigh Valley Health, will serve as acting CFO.
38. Mark Ranatza, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Springdale-based Arkansas Children’s Northwest.
39. Glenn Milos, MD, was appointed vice president and chief medical officer of OSF St. Katharine Medical Center, formally KSB Hospital, in Dixon, Ill.
40. Jerry Gonzalez, BSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Ogden (Utah) Regional Medical Center.
41. Patricia Boeckmann, RN, was appointed CEO of Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, Texas.
Feb. 8-14
1. Mark Sevco was appointed president of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network.
2. LaTanya Love, MD, was appointed interim president of UT Health Science Center at Houston.
3. Robin Steaban, MSN, RN, will retire in November as chief nursing officer of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
4. Brenda Palmore was appointed vice president of operations at VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill, Va.
5. Robert Meyer will retire this summer after serving as Phoenix Children’s president and CEO for 22 years.
6. Derek Rozier was appointed CEO of Hinesville, Ga.-based Liberty Regional Medical Center.
7. Maria Garvin was appointed CFO of El Paso, Texas-based Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare.
8. Michael Restuccia, senior vice president and CIO of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, shared plans to retire.
9. Harold Courtois, CEO of Abilene, Kan.-based Memorial Health System and affiliate hospital administrator in Abilene, will retire June 30 after 51 years in healthcare.
10. David Callecod was appointed CEO of Shreveport-based Ochsner LSU Health System of North Louisiana.
11. Jessica Darnell, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
12. Richelle Graham, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville.
13. Reyne’ Gallup, BSN, RN, was appointed vice president and COO for Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton, Ga.
14. Tricia Costigan was appointed president of MaineHealth Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H.
15. Roshan Hussain was appointed chief data and analytics officer for West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health.
16. David Byrd was appointed CEO of The Hospitals of Providence-Sierra Campus in El Paso, Texas.
17. Lana Zerrer, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of Columbia, Mo.-based Boone Health.
18. Ned Resch was appointed president and CEO of Scottsbluff, Neb.-based Regional West Health Services.
19. Julie McCormick, RN, BSN, was appointed president of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health’s northeast market.
20. Juan Caicedo, MD, was appointed division head of transplant and advanced hepatobiliary surgery, and surgical director for the Siragusa Transplantation Center at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
21. Mohamad Bydon, MD, was appointed inaugural chair of the department of neurological surgery and system leader for neurological surgery at UChicago Medicine.
22. Michael Fosina was appointed president of Calvary Hospital in New York City.
23. Kenneth “KC” Donahey was appointed CEO of HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital.
24. Emily White was appointed vice president of revenue cycle for Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health.
25. Clayton Mitchell was appointed senior vice president of corporate facilities and chief of systems design, facilities, and real estate for Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System.
26. Dawn Anuszkiewicz was appointed president of MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Wash., and market leader for East Pierce County.
27. Sarah Nekrasz, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Newport (R.I.) Hospital.
Jan. 31 to Feb. 7
1. Beth King is stepping down as CEO of JCH HealthCare, which manages the 67-bed Jersey Community Hospital in Jerseyville, Ill. COO Kevin Goss has been appointed interim CEO.
2. Char Boulch, DNP, was appointed CEO of Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton, Ark.
3. Julie Balluck, DNP, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nurse executive for Arlington-based Texas Health Resources.
4. Michael James was appointed CEO of Vaughan Regional Medical Center in Selma, Ala.
5. Mark Casanova was appointed CEO of Northwest Health-La Porte (Ind.) and Northwest Health-Starke in Knox, Ind.
6. Danny Myers was named senior vice president of finance – strategic revenue for Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.
7. Julia Gorecki, BSN, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital.
8. Blake Rose was appointed COO of Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls.
9. Matthew Solomon, MD, PhD, was appointed as the first chief scientific officer for Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health.
10. Robert Roose, MD, was appointed president of community hospitals for Hartford, Conn.-based Trinity Health of New England.
11. Hernando Ruiz-Jimenez was appointed chief marketing and communications officer for Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.
12. Melissa Anderson, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO of Aspen Mountain Medical Center in Rock Springs, Wyo.
13. Michael Purvis resigned as CEO of Candler County Hospital in Metter, Ga. Following Mr. Purvis’ resignation, the hospital created a COO position, which will be filled by Marty Ray.
14. Gregory Eberhart, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Las Cruces, N.M.-based Memorial Medical Center.
15. John McMahon was appointed acute division vice president of finance and Washington, D.C. market CFO for King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services.
16. Nat’e Guyton, MSN, RN, was appointed president of St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho.
17. Michael D’Souza was appointed COO of HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball (Texas).
18. June-Ann Garafano was appointed vice president and chief human resources officer of New Brunswick, N.J.-based St. Peter’s Healthcare System.
19. Kamaria Smith-Frayer was appointed CFO of Sun City Center, Fla.-based HCA Florida South Shore Hospital.
20. Victor Jaffe, DO, was appointed chief medical officer at HCA Florida Northwest Hospital in Margate.
21. Celina Holson was appointed COO of HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast in Pasadena, Texas.
22. Carolyn Jackson, CEO of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and its Massachusetts market, plans to step down Feb. 14.
23. Lauren Kane, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of TriStar Hendersonville (Tenn.) Medical Center.
24. Mandy Eaton, PhD, was appointed president and CEO of Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health.
25. Courtney Dalton was appointed CFO of Bowling Green, Ky.-based TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital.
26. Ruth Bash was appointed senior vice president and chief experience officer of Mullica Hill, N.J.-based Inspira Health.
27. Vickie Taylor, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Fishersville, Va.-based Augusta Health.
28. Paul Hanson stepped down from his role as president and CEO of Sanford Health’s Sioux Falls (S.D.) market. Andy Munce, MSN, RN, was appointed interim president and CEO of Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls.
29. Michael Stevens, MD, was appointed chief quality officer for Morgantown, W.Va.-based West Virginia University Health System.
30. David McCormack, CEO of Selma, Ala.-based Vaughan Regional Medical Center, will retire in the first quarter of 2025.
31. Kelsie Green, BSN, RN, was appointed CEO and chief nursing officer of Cache Valley Hospital in Logan, Utah.
32. Sharon Toups, COO of Covington, La.-based St. Tammany Health System, will retire after 23 years in the role. Jack Khashou will succeed Ms. Toups as COO.
33. Shannon Piatkowski was appointed vice president of operations for HCA Florida Englewood (Fla.) Hospital.
34. Charlotte Haisch, RN, was named COO of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health’s home health division.
35. Corey Casper, MD, was appointed chief research officer for Phoenix-based Banner Health.
36. Eric Williams, MD, was appointed chief quality officer for Cincinnati Children’s and vice president of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence.
37. Artemio Mier was appointed associate vice president of revenue cycle, patient business services, for Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center.
38. Lisa Stephenson, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing informatics officer for Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai.
39. Shaun Miller, MD, was appointed to the newly created role of chief health informatics officer for Cedars-Sinai.
40. Yaron Elad, MD, was appointed chief medical informatics officer to helm the physician informatics team at Cedars-Sinai.
41. Teresa Noland, RN, BSN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer for AdventHealth Lenexa (Kan.) City Center.
42. Rodney Allen II was appointed vice president and CFO of AdventHealth Lenexa City Center.
Jan. 25-30
1. Michael Condrin was appointed interim CEO of Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health.
2. Bruce Hall, MD, PhD, chief clinical officer for UC Davis Health, was appointed interim vice chancellor of human health sciences.
3. Susan Murin, MD, was appointed dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine.
4. Bradley Solberg was appointed interim CEO of Hammond-Henry Hospital in Geneseo, Ill.
5. Kim Manus was appointed CEO and superintendent for Newport (Wash.) Hospital and Health Services.
6. Shelby Kutty, MD, PhD, was appointed vice president and chief academic officer of Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System.
7. Melissa Payne was appointed COO of Ocoee, Fla.-based Orlando Health–Health Central Hospital.
8. Leo Bodden was appointed senior vice president and CIO of Westchester Medical Center Health Network in Valhalla, N.Y.
9. Michael Korpiel, president and CEO of Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Carmichael, Calif., plans to retire July 7.
10. Helen Ballantyne was appointed CEO of Alta Vista Regional Hospital in Las Vegas, N.M.
11. Craig Funk was appointed president of Birmingham, Ala.-based Encompass Health’s Southwest Region.
12. Kevin Whitney, DNP, RN, was appointed president and COO of Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass.
13. Samantha Ing was appointed chief strategy officer of Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) Medical Center.
14. Michael Dingeldein, MD, was appointed chief of pediatric surgery for Cleveland-based University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital.
15. Wade Hunt was appointed president of MultiCare Deaconess and Valley hospitals, which are based in Spokane, Wash., and Spokane Valley, Wash., respectively.
16. Jeff Brannon, RN, CEO of Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Ala., will leave his role and transition into a position focused on healthcare education and business development. Steve Gordon will join the hospital as CEO in the spring.
17. Caryl Perdaems was appointed chief administrative officer of Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Polson, Mont.
18. Pamela Guillory, BSN, was appointed chief nursing officer for Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., ahead of its integration into Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare.
19. Nicole Larcomb, was appointed vice president of human resources for Catholic Medical Center.
20. John Skevington was appointed CEO of Catholic Medical Center. Mr. Skevington will succeed Alex Walker, who will become executive director of the Catholic Health Care Foundation of Greater Manchester.
21. Joe Pino was appointed interim COO of Catholic Medical Center.
22. Adrian Thompson was appointed vice president of operations for Catholic Medical Center.
23. Malachi Fisher was appointed vice president of operations for Catholic Medical Center.
24. Marwan Chadouli was appointed assistant CFO of Catholic Medical Center.
25. Juan Sanchez, MD, was appointed chief academic officer for graduate medical education at HCA Healthcare.
26. Christine Lunger was appointed chief nursing officer of TriStar NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tenn.
27. Hannah Henry was appointed CEO of Rehabilitation Hospital of Newnan (Ga.).
28. Jason Douglas was appointed CEO of Lexington (Neb.) Regional Health Center.
29. Charles “Chuck” Callahan, PhD, was appointed the inaugural executive vice president for health affairs to lead The University of Toledo (Ohio)’s clinical enterprise.
30. Steve Motil was appointed chief data and analytics officer for Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health.
31. Lance Bruck, MD, was appointed executive vice chair of clinical affairs and strategic development for obstetrics, gynecology, and women’s health at Montefiore Einstein in New York City.
32. Daniel Ostlie, MD, was appointed surgeon-in-chief and senior vice president for Cincinnati Children’s.
33. Charmaine Blanchard, RN, was appointed CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Stuart, Fla.
34. Aida Avdic, MD, was named chief medical officer for Brattleboro (Vt.) Memorial Hospital.
35. Tara Williams, DNP, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer of Cincinnati-based UC Medical Center.
36. Chris Turnbull was appointed chief of staff for Steve Arner, president and CEO of Roanoke, Va.-based Carilion Clinic.
37. Matthew Chandler, PharmD, was appointed COO of Pomona, Calif.-based Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare.
38. Ryan Miller was appointed vice president and chief human resources officer at Minot, N.D.-based Trinity Health.
39. Anna Roth, RN, was appointed president and CEO of Tahoe Forest Health System in Truckee, Calif.
40. Angie Orth was appointed senior vice president and chief of staff to the CEO at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.
41. Frank Holcomb was appointed COO of Summerville Medical Center in South Carolina.
42. Taylor Boyle was appointed CFO of Sentara Norfolk (Va.) General Hospital.
43. Richard Redett, MD, a pediatric plastic surgeon, was appointed physician-in-chief for Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine. He will also serve as vice dean for clinical affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
44. Joseph Sabik III, MD, was selected as president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
45. Jeff Ardemagni was appointed CFO of Overland Park, Kan.-based HCA Midwest Health.
Jan. 18-24
1. Dennis Knox was appointed CEO of Las Cruces, N.M.-based Memorial Medical Center.
2. Brett Moraski was appointed interim CEO of Longitude Health, a recently formed innovation consortium of four major health systems, following the death of founding CEO Paul Mango.
3. Leanne Yanni, MD, was appointed president and CEO of Illinois physician enterprise for Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System.
4. Michael Holmes was appointed senior vice president and regional president of UF Health’s Gainesville market.
5. Sharyl Smith was appointed executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health.
6. Taylor Eighmy, PhD, president of The University of Texas at San Antonio, was appointed acting president of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as the organizations prepare for their anticipated merger.
7. Terell Smith, MSN, RN, is retiring after more than three decades at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
8. Kathy Shupe was appointed assistant CFO for Las Vegas-based Valley Health System.
9. Emily Shields was appointed chief strategy officer for Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare.
10. Jason Mitchell, MD, was appointed executive vice president and chief medical officer for Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger.
11. James Vincent Cortez, MD, was elected chief of staff for Laredo (Texas) Medical Center.
12. Marc Gorelick, MD, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota, will retire in July after a 42-year medical career.
13. Callie Parks was appointed hospital chief executive at Presbyterian Santa Fe (N.M.) Medical Center.
14. Richard Silveria was named CFO of The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.
15. Scott Koelliker, RN, was appointed president of Mosaic Medical Center-Maryville (Mo.).
16. Jake Childs, PharmD, was appointed COO of Yuma, Ariz.-based Onvida Health.
17. Brenda Weigel, MD, was appointed the inaugural vice president of clinical research industry engagement at Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
18. Paul Mollo, PharmD, was appointed the inaugural chief pharmacy officer for Sayre, Pa.-based Guthrie.
19. Lisa Cain, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at UPMC Memorial in York, Pa.
20. Jenna Lambrecht was appointed associate vice president of back end revenue cycle for St. Louis-based Ascension.
21. Amanda Shrout, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at Sinai Hospital and Grace Medical Center, both part of Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health.
22. Susan Huang, MD, will serve as chief physician executive of Renton, Wash.-based Providence and chief executive of the health system’s clinical network.
23. Sara Vaezy was appointed chief transformation officer for Providence.
24. Ali Santore will serve as chief communication and external affairs officer for Providence.
25. Ivette de Rubens will serve as interim CIO of Providence.
26. Hoda Asmar, MD, will depart her role as chief clinical officer of Providence “to pursue new opportunities.”
27. Prub “PK” Khurana will serve as chief strategy and growth officer for Providence.
28. Dougal Hewitt will serve as chief mission officer for Providence.
29. Orest Holubec will transition from his longtime role as chief communication officer to mission leader for Providence shared services, community health, and health equity teams.
30. Steven Hankins was appointed COO of Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tucson, Ariz.
31. Stacey-Ann Okoth, PhD, DNP, was appointed chief nursing officer for Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health’s Mountain Region.
32. Amica Ghebremariam was appointed COO of HCA Houston Healthcare West.
33. Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, RN, will resign as president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Kirk Calhoun, MD, will serve as interim president beginning Feb. 1.
34. Amit Parmar was appointed COO of HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital in Tamarac.
35. Eric Lunde was appointed president and CEO of AdventHealth Fish Memorial in Orange City, Fla.
36. Hernando Ruiz-Jimenez was appointed chief marketing and communications officer of Geisinger.
37. Mike Richards, MD, was appointed CEO of Albuquerque, N.M.-based UNM Health System.
38. Wendy Watson was appointed president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals of the Northwest.
39. Marc Hallee was named vice president of total rewards for Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System.
40. Matthew Wolden was appointed COO of MaineHealth’s Maine Medical Center in Portland.
41. Austin Frazier was appointed CFO of Tucson, Ariz.-based St. Mary’s Hospital and Nogales, Ariz.-based Holy Cross Hospital.
42. Teri Lash-Ritter, MD, was appointed president of Cleveland Clinic’s south submarket in northeast Ohio.
43. Darren Brucken, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Horizon Health in Paris, Ill.
44. Julie Floyd was appointed vice president of revenue cycle for Brunswick, Ga.-based Southeast Georgia Health System.
45. Douglas Zehner was appointed CFO of Teaneck, N.J.-based Holy Name Medical Center.
Jan. 11-17
1. David Burton was appointed CIO of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health.
2. Amar Nagaram was selected as IU Health’s new associate CIO.
3. Corwin Harper, who most recently served as CEO of Shreveport, La.-based Ochsner LSU Health, will rejoin Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente as the president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia.
4. Elizabeth Flail, DO, was appointed chief of staff at Valdosta, Ga.-based SGMC Health.
5. Elise Myers was appointed chief revenue officer for Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC.
6. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, will serve as executive dean for the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, N.C.
7. Azita Hamedani, MD, was appointed president of UNC Faculty Physicians and vice dean for clinical affairs at the UNC School of Medicine.
8. James Kabue was appointed director of finance for USC Arcadia (Calif.) Hospital.
9. Osmel “Ozzie” Delgado, PharmD, was appointed CEO of FIU Health, the clinical practice of Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami. He has also been appointed associate dean of clinical affairs at the medical school.
10. Hassan Beiz, MD, was named chief medical officer of McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mount Clemens, Mich.
11. Matthew Fry, president and CEO of HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill., will take the helm at Joplin, Mo.-based Freeman Health System in April.
12. Bryce Gartland, MD, was appointed south region president for Milwaukee-based Froedtert ThedaCare Health.
13. Crystal Bohannan, vice president of operations at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs (Ark.) since 2018, was promoted to president.
14. Todd Werner was promoted to president of care delivery for Phoenix-based Banner Health.
15. Andy Knutson, CFO of Onamia, Minn.-based Mille Lacs Health System, was appointed to succeed CEO Bill Nelson.
16. Josh Froehlich, RN, BSN, was named vice president and chief nursing officer of Lima (Ohio) Memorial Health System.
17. Andy Bertapelle, MSN, RN, CEO of Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital in Manistique, Mich., plans to step down to take a new CEO role in Washington state.
18. Pamela McClain was named vice president of revenue cycle and managed care for Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare.
19. Ben Spence, a nearly 30-year veteran of Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health, was appointed COO.
20. Nikki Daily was promoted to chief team resources officer for Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare.
21. Kimberly Guy was named COO of BayCare.
22. Lou Galdieri was appointed chief administrative officer of BayCare.
23. Seanna Zimmerman, DNP, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer of The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I.
24. Candice Saunders, BSN, president and CEO of Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System, plans to retire June 30.
25. Kevin Smith, PhD, was appointed president of Wellstar Spalding Medical Center in Griffin, Ga., and Wellstar Sylvan Grove Medical Center in Jackson, Ga.
26. James DeGloria was named chief revenue cycle and regulatory compliance officer for Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health.
27. David Ziolkowski was appointed president and CEO of Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton, Calif.
28. Nicholas Archer was appointed vice president of the innovation ventures arm for Cincinnati (Ohio) Children’s.
29. Jennifer Khelil, DO, was promoted to executive vice president and chief clinical officer of Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health.
30. Bruce Siegel, MD, president and CEO of America’s Essential Hospitals, will retire at the end of 2025.
31. Mark Salierno was named senior vice president and chief strategy and business development officer for Seattle Children’s.
32. Mark Rooker was appointed administrator of Lindsborg (Kan.) Community Hospital.
33. Winfried Danke was appointed COO of Shelton, Wash.-based Mason Health.
34. Daffodil Baez was appointed president of Adventist HealthCare Fort Washington (Md.) Medical Center.
35. Kate Johnston was appointed vice president of revenue analytics for Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health.
36. Dwain Shaw, acting CEO of Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in Jessup, Md., resigned. Aliya Jones, MD, who previously served as a deputy secretary in the state health department, will become permanent CEO.
37. Kelley Skoloda was appointed chief marketing and communications officer for Butler, Pa.-based Independence Health System.
38. Austin Champoux was appointed COO of Tenet Healthcare’s Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla.
39. Dorval Carter Jr., president of the Chicago Transit Authority, the third-largest public transit agency in the U.S., was appointed president and CEO of Chicago-based Saint Anthony Hospital.
40. Kyle Benoit was appointed executive vice president COO of Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth.
41. Jason Mayra was appointed CFO of Hancock, Mich.-based UP Health System – Portage.
42. Jean Halpin was appointed president of OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus.
43. Tara Yurinich, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of Gottlieb Memorial hospital in Melrose Park, Ill.
44. Erin Shaffer Beadle was promoted to executive vice president and CFO of Georgetown, S.C.-based Tidelands Health.
45. David De Simone was appointed chief administrative officer and general counsel for Paterson, N.J.-based St. Joseph’s Health.
46. John Wilhelm was appointed associate vice president of revenue cycle operations for Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
47. Jennifer Mojica was appointed CFO of Ocoee, Fla.-based Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital.
48. Julie Hall, DNP, RN, was appointed senior vice president and chief nursing officer of Utica, N.Y.-based Mohawk Valley Health System.
Jan. 3-10
1. Dan Rieber, CFO of Aurora, Colo.-based UCHealth, is retiring after serving as the role since 2018.
2. Chris Blair, BSN, joined Aspirus Health as vice president and chief administrative officer for the North Wisconsin Division.
3. Ann Pohl, DNP, MSN, BSN, was appointed chief nursing officer of UNC Health Blue Ridge in Morgantown, N.C.
4. Mary Prybylo, MSN, RN, will retire as president of Bangor, Maine-based St. Joseph Healthcare and senior vice president of Andover, Mass.-based Covenant Health.
5. Malik Merchant, MD, was appointed chief medical officer of St. David’s South Austin Medical Center in Texas.
6. David McGrail was named CFO of Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services.
7. Sharon Smyth, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer of The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
8. Elise MacCarroll-Wright was named president and CEO of UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale (Ill.).
9. Dave Tkachuck was appointed president and CEO of UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange (Ill.).
10. Kathleen Downey, DNP, RN, was promoted to vice president and chief nursing officer at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange.
11. Jennifer Grenier, DNP, RN, was appointed vice president and chief nursing officer at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook (Ill.) hospital.
12. Zachary Dye was appointed CFO at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks in Glendale Heights, Ill.
13. Celestina Bryson, DNP, MSN, was named chief nursing officer for San Antonio, Texas-based Methodist Healthcare’s specialty and transplant hospital.
14. Gary Searls was named CFO of Houston-based HCA Healthcare Gulf Coast Division.
15. Marleina Davis, who served as deputy chief legal officer and assistant secretary at Cleveland Clinic for 13 years, was appointed executive vice president and chief legal officer for The Joint Commission.
16. Katherine Valcin, DNP, RN, was appointed chief nursing executive for University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center and CNO of Strong Memorial Hospital.
17. Cara Camiolo, MD, was appointed chief quality and safety officer for Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health.
18. Christi Pramudji Dawe, MD, was appointed president of the medical staff at Houston Methodist West Hospital.
19. Arnette Marbella was named vice president of revenue cycle for Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare.
20. Kristian Spear was named administrator of Memorial Hospital Biloxi (Miss.).
21. Nanette Logan, DNP, was appointed CEO of Dominion Hospital in Falls Church, Va.
22. Shannon Sock, chief strategist and operating officer at St. Louis-based Mercy, is transitioning his role to focus on the system’s joint ventures and collaborations.
23. Deborah Yount was named chief human resources officer of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health.
24. Vivek Gursahaney was named vice president of strategy and activation for Detroit-based Henry Ford Health.
25. Moiz Master, MD, was appointed system chief medical officer for Atlanta-based Piedmont.
26. Ildemaro González was appointed chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer for Chicago-based Rush.
27. Emily Ryan, MD, is the newly-elected chief of medical staff at Dignity Health-Glendale (Calif.) Memorial Hospital and Health Center.
28. Michael Ciurea was appointed administrator of AdventHealth Murray in Chatsworth, Ga.
29. Dewane Pace was appointed CEO of Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville, Ore.
30. Heather Markell, MSN, RN, was named chief nursing officer of Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md.
31. Tim McGill will retire as CEO of Livingston (Tenn.) Regional Hospital. CFO Lance Mason, hired by Mr. McGill in 2016, will become CEO.
32. Marita Romine was named CFO of Hot Springs, Va.-based Bath Community Hospital.
33. Melissa Golombek, DNP, was named executive vice president and COO of Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital.
34. Vishal Tiwari, MD, was appointed chief medical officer for Holyoke (Mass.) Medical Center.
35. Paul Mason will retire Jan. 14 as chief administrative officer of the medical group at Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare.
36. Frank Corcoran, BSN, was appointed CEO of Zachary, La.-based Lane Regional Medical Center.
37. Opeyemi Oluwole was appointed chief marketing officer of Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health.
38. Joy Bischoff, MSN, president of OhioHealth Van Wert Hospital, was appointed vice president of enterprise shared services at Columbus-based OhioHealth.
39. Robert Sabina was appointed CEO of HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center.
40. Elias Armendariz, MSN, RN, was appointed CEO of HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland (Texas).
41. Katrina Ascencio-Holmes, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nurse officer of Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health.
42. Saad Chaudhry, chief digital officer at SSM Health (St. Louis), was promoted to chief digital and information officer.
43. Ryan Nagy, MD, president of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health’s metro region and interim president of Indianapolis-based Riley Children’s Health, will exit his role to become president, system chief operating officer and member of the board of trustees at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Michele Saysana, MD, will serve as interim president for IU Health’s metro region. David Ingram, MD, will take over interim responsibility for Dr. Saysana’s duties as senior vice president of academic medicine and executive associate dean for clinical affairs at IU School of Medicine.
44. Ruth Cassidy, PharmD, was named chief pharmacy officer for New York City-based Montefiore Health.
45. Rob Purinton was appointed chief AI officer of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.
46. Heidar Thordarson was appointed CFO of Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health’s Central California network.
47. Kim Hale, DNP, was named chief nursing officer of Providence St. Joseph Hospital of Orange (Calif.).
48. Kandice Bledsaw, PhD, RN, accepted a new appointment as the inaugural chief nursing information officer for The University of Texas Medical Branch health system, based in Galveston.
49. Melissa Bowker-Kinley, PhD, was appointed vice president of medical affairs for child and adolescent services in MaineHealth’s behavioral health division, based in Portland.
50. Heather Corte-Real, DNP, MSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer for Wilson (N.C.) Medical Center.
51. Jay Carmichael was appointed president and CEO of Paris, Ill.-based Horizon Health.
52. Rob McLin will retire in January 2026 as president and CEO of Good Samaritan in Vincennes, Ind. COO Adam Thacker was selected to succeed Mr. McLin.
53. Joe Delatorre, CEO of Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, was appointed president of a new Orlando Health hospital in Wesley Chapel, Fla., scheduled to open in 2026.
Dec. 27 to Jan. 2
1. Janice Grankowski was named vice president of revenue cycle performance at Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth.
2. Robert Hartmann was appointed vice president of EHR transformation at Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare.
3. Guy Cayo was appointed CEO of UT Health Quitman, part of the UT Health East Texas system.
4. Jeff Perry, MSN, was named CEO of Warsaw, N.Y.-based Wyoming County Community Health System.
5. Kara Estenson, DNP, MSN, RN, joined San Francisco-based Dignity Health as chief nurse executive and COO of Woodland (Calif.) Memorial Hospital.
6. Crystal Arthur, MD, was selected as the inaugural chief medical director of emergency services for Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care.
7. Marty Boryszak has departed Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health, where he served as system senior vice president of acute care and president of Mercy Hospital of Buffalo.
8. Jenna Bedwell, MSN, RN, was appointed interim chief nursing officer at Daviess Community Hospital in Washington, Ind.
9. Joe Hernandez was appointed CEO of HCA Healthcare’s Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas.
10. Jesse Sulzer, MD, PhD, was selected as chief medical officer for Ballad Health’s Johnson Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Russell County Hospital, and Smyth County Community Hospital, all in Virginia.
11. Kristen Shoup was named executive director of revenue cycle for Middleburg Heights, Ohio-based Southwest General Health Center.
12. Kory Browning was named CEO of Northwest Medical Center-Springdale (Ark.).
13. Dana Anderson, MSN, RN, was appointed COO of Mosaic Medical Center-Maryville (Mo.).
14. David Schreiner, PhD, president and CEO of Dixon, Ill.-based Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital, retired on Dec. 31. Jackie Kernan, MSN, RN, assumed the role of president, effective Jan. 1, coinciding with Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare beginning operations at the hospital.
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