Ailing Boston Medical Center Names New CEO

Financially troubled Boston Medical Center has named Kate Walsh as its new president and CEO, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

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Ms. Walsh has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the past five years.

She will succeed Elaine Ullian, who has been wrestling with the medical center’s $38 million loss for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2009, and a projected loss of $134 million for the current fiscal year.

Read the Boston Globe’s report on Boston Medical Center.

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