Executive Moves

LaGrangeville, N.Y.-based Health Quest tapped current President Robert Friedberg to also serve as CEO.

Privia Medical Group, part of Arlington, Va.-based physician practice management and population health technology company Privia Health, appointed Shawn Crawford president for Privia Medical Group-Southwest Virginia.

St. Louis-based Ascension Healthcare CEO Robert J. Henkel is retiring, effective June 30, 2017, ending a five-year stint as leader. He will also retire from his role as executive vice president of parent organization Ascension.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health named Jacqueline Medland, PhD, RN, president and CNO of Highlands-Cashiers Hospital in Franklin, N.C.

Cincinnati-based UC Health appointed Tom Daskalakis permanent chief administrative officer and vice president at West Chester (Ohio) Hospital.

Nacogdoches (Texas) Memorial Health CEO Scott Street resigned, and Gary Kendrick has been named to lead the hospital on an interim basis.

Carlos Escobar. Vice President and CIO of Adventist Health System, Central Florida Region (Greater Orlando). Mr. Escobar was appointed vice president and CIO of Adventist Health System, Central Florida Region in April 2016. He previously held various positions at Orlando-based…

University of Chicago Medicine has chosen Selwyn Rogers, MD, to be the founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, which is currently under construction and will open in 2018.

Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center named Philippe Généreux, MD, as the new co-director of the hospital's structural heart program.

The head of Erie, Pa.-based UPMC Hamot's outpatient mental health facility is retiring after 23 years at the helm, GoErie reports.