Patrick Heins, DNP, RN, will retire as president of ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital in Tarboro, N.C., effective Dec. 12.
Mr. Heins has spent 30 years at Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health, including the past eight years as hospital president, according to a Sept. 15 health system news release.
He joined ECU Health in 1996 as a nursing assistant at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville. He later served as president of ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie, N.C., before becoming president of ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital in 2018.