Days after Beth Israel Lahey Health installed its first chief quality officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health Performance Network promoted its chief clinical officer to become chief medical officer. 

Walter Long was named COO of HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health named Aaron Lewis executive vice president and CFO to take over from the health system's current CFO, Michael Coggin, who is retiring in March.

Aurora Health Care tapped two new leaders to its St. Luke's South Shore hospital in Cudahy, Wis. 

Hospitals and health systems across the U.S. will enter 2024 without the same CEO who led them for years.

Oceans Healthcare, a behavioral healthcare company, has appointed Eric Elliott CFO. 

Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica has appointed Donna Zuk chief accounting officer, effective Nov. 3. 

Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, has served as president of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston since August, and he brought with him a wealth of experience. This experience included serving as chair of the department of internal medicine at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center; vice chair for research in the department of medicine and chief of the division of nephrology and hypertension at the University of Miami's graduate medical school in Florida; and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has selected Jeff Good as its first chief sustainability executive. 

Laredo (Texas) Medical Center has named Marco Lozano its next chief operating officer. 

Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center — a new hospital being built in Washington, D.C. — has named Anthony Coleman, DHA, its inaugural CEO. 

Lourdes Boue was named CEO of Baptist Health Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Fla.

Sonoma County in California appointed Tanya Phares, MD, as the county's health officer, the Petaluma Argus-Courier reported Nov. 7.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham has announced a new role overseeing radiation oncology as it prepares to split with Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The Boston Globe reported Nov. 7. 

Beau Higginbotham was appointed to serve as president and CEO of Ascension Saint Agnes in Baltimore, part of St. Louis-based Ascension. 

Jacksonville, Fla-based Baptist Health named Andrea Eklund chief senior vice president of compliance and internal audit and chief compliance officer. 

Sarah Morrison is retiring from her position as CEO of the Shepherd Center, a nationally renowned, Atlanta-based neurorehabilitation hospital. 

Callaway (Neb.) District Hospital and Medical Clinics has named Cassie Penn its next chief operating officer, local newspaper Sandhills Express reported Nov. 6. 

Bradley Haws was named CEO of Iowa City-based University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and associate vice president of University of Iowa Health Care, effective Nov. 29.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has appointed Yael Heher, MD, as its inaugural chief quality officer, the health system said Nov. 6.