Dallas-based Steward Health Care named Lindsay Smelser vice president of marketing.
Executive Moves
Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., tapped Barrett Kitch, MD, to serve as senior vice president of clinical affairs and CMO.
Ed Ruth, president of Mercy Health-Allen Hospital in Oberlin, Ohio, is retiring at the end of the year, according to The Morning Journal.
Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw, Ind., selected Jae Dale to serve as CEO, effective Oct. 15.
JoDee Tittle, CEO of Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center in Bandon, Ore., is resigning, effective Nov. 16, according to The World.
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Florida Hospital New Smyrna CEO Ken Mattison plans to retire, effective Dec. 23, according to The Daytona Beach News-Journal. The hospital is based in New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
General Electric on Oct. 1 said it had replaced John Flannery as its chairman and CEO, shooting its share prices up 13 percent after reaching a nine-year low last week, CNBC reports.
Becker's Hospital Review reported on the following latest hospital and health system executive resignations.
R. Lawrence Moss, MD, began in his role as president and CEO of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children's Health System Oct. 1.
Cigna staffed the team who will lead a combined Cigna-Express Scripts company after the close of the firms' proposed $52 billion deal.