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. 

Emma Maria Montes-Ewing was named CEO of South Texas Health System McAllen.

Christina Mathis is the new CEO of Medical City Frisco (Texas), a 98-bed hospital within a 16-hospital group in the area that is part of HCA Healthcare. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare — a physician services company that filed for bankruptcy in May — has named two new leaders as it successfully emerges from a financial restructuring. 

San Diego-based Scripps Health has named Joanna Caballero corporate vice president of revenue cycle, health system CFO Brett Tande said in a LinkedIn post. 

Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital in Springfield, Ohio, has named Ron Connovich president and CEO. 

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has appointed Yvens Laborde, MD, chief community medical officer for the health system.

Intermountain and Kaleida Health are among 12 health systems that made CFO hires in October, as reported by Becker's: 

Maria Morales-Menendez was selected as the new group COO for the Palm Beach Health Network and St. Mary's Medical Center, part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare.

Cheryl Klass, BSN, RN, executive vice president and COO and the former chief nursing executive for Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health, plans to retire from the organization.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has named Dianna Pelay assistant vice president of revenue cycle for the system's Broomfield, Colo.-based Peaks Region, according to a post on her LinkedIn page.  

Thomas Burke will be leaving his role as president of Saint Francis Hospital and Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital, both part of Trinity Health of New England's Hartford (Conn.) market.

Angela Kelly was named executive director of operations at HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital in Effingham, Ill., part of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System.

UChicago Medicine has promoted Michael Antoniades to the helm of Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Ill.