Arriving
Jennifer Swenson has been named president of Kettering Health Network’s Fort Hamilton (Ohio) Hospital. Ms. Swenson has served as COO for St. Helena Hospital in Clearlake, Calif., since May 2009. She takes over for Lynn Oswald, who served as Fort Hamilton’s president for five years.
Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., has named Louise Urban senior vice president of hospital operations. She will be responsible for clinical operations at Jefferson Regional, where she most recently served as vice president and CNO. She will continue in the CNO role.
Kimberly Jutras Graham, current CNO for Broward Health Coral Springs (Fla.) Medical Center, has been promoted to COO in addition to her existing duties. She has been CNO at CSMC for 10 years and will manage daily operations of the hospital’s service departments in her new dual role.
Ohio-based Premier Health Partners has named Mary Boosalis, current CEO of Premier’s Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, as the health system’s new executive vice president and COO. Bobbie Gerhart, Miami Valley’s COO, will replace Ms. Boosalis as CEO of MVH.
Sheri Trahern will serve as the new chief administrative officer of St. Thomas More hospital in Canon City, Colo., making permanent the role she has filled on an interim basis since August. She previously served at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver.
Carol Steckel, Alabama’s top Medicaid official, has been hired to lead the Louisiana state health agency in implementing changes through health reform. She started work at the Department of Health and Hospitals on Nov. 15 at a salary of $148,500. Ms. Steckel has served as Alabama’s Medicaid Commissioner since Dec. 2003.
Community Hospital in New Port Richley, Fla., has named Leigh Massengill CEO, replacing Kathryn Gillette, who was promoted to CEO of Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla. Ms. Massengill has 30 years of hospital administration experience, most recently as COO of Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point.
Departing
Eneida Ronald, MD, president and CEO of Miami-based Jackson Health System has announced she will not renew her contract on June 1, 2011, citing “hostile conditions” and saying she must “draw the line at having [her] personal integrity and moral fiber called into question” in a letter to Public Health Trust officials, the independent governing body of JHS.
Lisa Goodlett, COO of The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg (S.C.) and Calhoun, announced her resignation in mid-November. She has served as the hospital’s COO since Jan. 2008 and submitted her letter of resignation on Nov. 13. She leaves the hospital to pursue a job as an analyst with a venture capital firm.
Dijuana Lewis, executive vice president of Indianapolis-based insurance company WellPoint, was “terminated without cause” in late October. She joined WellPoint, then known as Anthem, in 1996. Samuel Nussbaum, MD, WellPoint’s CMO, will Ms. Lewis’ role on an interim basis when she leaves at the end of 2010.
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