Ballad Health, the new health system formed by the merger of Kingsport, Tenn.-based Wellmont Health System and Johnson City, Tenn.-based Mountain States Health Alliance, selected 16 new executives. The system formally launched Feb. 2.
Executive Moves
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina's CEO Patrick Conway, MD, said he hopes a recently mended relationship between the insurer and Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System will last for decades, the Citizen Times reports.
Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following latest hospital and health system executive resignations.
Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health's South Central Region President Matt Bailey left the role, effective immediately, according to a Herald Times Online report.
St. Joseph Mercy Oakland in Pontiac, Mich., selected Fabian Fregoli, MD, to serve as CMO.
Fort Madison (Iowa) Community Hospital dropped the 'interim' from President and CEO Jeremy Alexander's title, according to a report by The Hawk Eye.
Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following hospital and health system executive moves in the last week.
Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare selected Mike Mandl to serve as executive vice president and Jack Tillman as vice president and chief of real estate.
Cartersville (Ga.) Medical Center tapped J. Christopher Mosley to serve as CEO, effective March 1.
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., selected Chris Whitby to serve as vice president and permanent CFO.