1. Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health and Newton Square, Pa-based Catholic Health East named Judith Persichilli, RN, as interim CEO and Larry Warren as interim COO for their pending unified health system.
2. Clark Regional Medical Center in Winchester, Ky., part of Nashville, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals, appointed Cherie Sibley as CEO, effective May 6.
3. Physicians Regional Healthcare System in Naples, Fla., appointed C. Scott Campbell as the new market CEO.
4. Michael Wyers was appointed as the new CFO of Medical Center of Trinity (Fla.).
5. Bristol (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center, part of Wellmont Health System, announced the resignation of its president, Bart Hove, effective May 1.
6. Four executives stepped down from Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health today, including the system’s CEO, after a law firm conducted a comprehensive review of Renown’s acquisition of a cardiology practice that led to an antitrust complaint from the Federal Trade Commission.
7. Thomas Thompson was named CEO at Samaritan Healthcare in Moses Lake, Wash., effective May 2013.
8. Karen Moore, president and CEO of Marlborough (Mass.) Hospital, resigned.
9. Dale Thornton, CEO of Mercy Tiffin (Ohio) Hospital, announced plans to retire, effective June 1.
10. North Sonoma County Healthcare District, which owns and operates Healdsburg (Calif.) District Hospital, named Nancy Schmid as its new CEO, effective May 1.
11. Kevin Brown, formerly CEO at Swedish Health Services in Seattle, was named president and CEO of Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta.
12. The board of directors at Corcoran District Hospital in Hanford, Calif., launched a search for a new CEO after dismissing Jonathan Brenn late last month.
13. Vineland, N.J.-based South Jersey Healthcare named Dave Yhlen, FACHE, MBA, as COO of Elmer (N.J.) Hospital.
