Larry Gray will retire later this year as president of Baptist Health Louisville (Ky.).

Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., has appointed Vasantha Kondamudi, MD, as chief medical officer, effective Jan. 30, according to NJ Advance Media.

Matt Elsey has been appointed executive vice president and CFO of Greenville, S.C.-based, Prisma Health, an 18-hospital system.

Patrick Woodard, MD, has joined Rapid City, S.D.-based Monument Health as chief health care information officer.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has named Thomas Rhodes chief operating officer of its River Region. 

Steven Varga, PhD, is the new dean of Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. 

William Kiefer, DNP, RN, has been named CEO of Ottumwa (Iowa) Regional Health Center as law enforcement investigates the death of an employee who they say committed a series of assaults at the hospital. 

Tioga (N.D.) Medical Center has named Jamie Eraas its new CEO. 

Charleston, W.V.-based Vandalia Health, which was created by the merger of two West Virginia health systems, has named a CIO and chief technology officer.

The Hospitals of Providence, an eight-hospital health system based in El Paso, Texas, has promoted David Byrd to CEO of its Transmountain campus, El Paso Inc. reported Feb. 1.

Overland Park, Kan.-based HCA Midwest Health has named Miah Stutts as its new CFO.

Melissa Wood, DNP, began her role as chief operating officer and chief nursing officer at MercyOne Clinton (Iowa) Medical Center on Jan. 30. 

Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (Calif.) has named Randall Goskowicz, MD, its new chief of staff. 

Richard Mendola has been named vice president and CIO of Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University both based in Baltimore. 

In 2022, 103 hospital and health system CEO exits were recorded by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. In the first month of 2023, Becker's covered 25. 

Isaac Sendros was named president and CEO of AdventHealth Redmond in Rome, Ga., part of Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth.

The following hospital and health system CEO moves have been reported by Becker's since Jan. 25: 

Noblesville, Ind.-based Riverview Health named Keith Jewell interim president and CEO on Jan. 18. 

SSM Health has named Stacy Coleman president of its St. Anthony Hospital-Midwest in Midwest City, Okla. 

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock announced Jan. 17 that Ahmed Abuabdou, MD, will take on the role of its health system's chief clinical officer.