Minnesota Hospital Suspends CEO Following Prostitution Charges

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North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, Minn., has suspended CEO David Cress without pay after the executive was arrested and charged with engaging in prostitution, according to a Star Tribune report.

Loren Taylor, chairman of the parent of North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, has been named interim CEO effective immediately.

Mr. Cress was one of a dozen men arrested at a Richfield, Minn., hotel during a daylong vice operation. He is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 15 on a misdemeanor charge.

Mr. Cress has led North Memorial since 2005.

Read the Star Tribune report on David Cress.

Read more on recent Minnesota executive moves:

-New CEO John Herman Starts at Minnesota's Fairview Northland Hospital

-Tom Schmitt Named CEO at Minnesota's Woodwinds Health

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