Mercy has appointed new leaders for four of its hospitals in Oklahoma, effective Oct. 13.
Five things to know:
1. Bobby Stitt, RN, has been named chief administrative officer of Mercy Hospital Ada, a 159-bed facility. Mr. Stitt began his healthcare career as a nurse in 2006 at Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City and later became administrator of Mercy Hospital Watonga in 2012. He went on to add leadership responsibilities for Mercy Hospital Logan County in 2017 and Mercy Hospital Kingfisher in 2019.
2. Mr. Stitt most recently served as administrator of Mercy’s critical access hospitals in Kingfisher, Logan County and Watonga. He will now focus on leading the Ada hospital.
3. Succeeding him is Dustin Yowell, who will assume day-to-day oversight of Mercy Hospital Watonga, Mercy Hospital Kingfisher and Mercy Hospital Logan County in Guthrie.
4. Mr. Yowell has served as executive director of operations for those three hospitals and previously was director of virtual medicine for Mercy in Oklahoma. He began his healthcare career in 1999 with the American Cancer Society before moving into roles at the Oklahoma Blood Institute and eventually Mercy.
5. Mr. Yowell will oversee the three 25-bed critical access hospitals, which each provide acute and skilled care services, outpatient and inpatient therapies, infusion services, emergency care and senior life programs.
