Executive Moves

Waltham, Mass.-based Fresenius Medical Care North America selected Ahmad Sharif, MD, to serve as chief medical information officer.

Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following hospital and health system executive moves in the last week.

Nantucket (Mass.) Cottage Hospital President and CEO Margot Hartmann, MD, PhD, is retiring, effective in the summer of 2019.

Orlando-based Florida Hospital announced executive appointments at four of its hospitals.

Concord (N.H.) Hospital named Betsey Rhynhart vice president of population health.

Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin, Tenn., tapped Geoffrey Lifferth, MD, to serve as CMO.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare selected Roland Cruickshank to serve as president of Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, effective in March.

South Peninsula Hospital in Homer, Alaska, appointed Joseph Woodin CEO, effective March 26.

Darren Pearce, BSN, CEO of Navicent Health Baldwin in Milledgeville, Ga., resigned after serving in the role for a little over three months, according to a Union-Recorder report.

Michael Guyette, president and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, will leave the insurer in March.