Executive Moves

Pottstown (Pa.) Memorial Medical Center has named Rich Newell CEO, effective July 27.

Alfonso "Al" Diaz Jr., MD, CMO of Harbin Clinic in Rome, Ga., will be leaving the organization to become CEO of Kindred Hospital Rome (Ga.), according to Northwest Georgia News.

The following hospital and health system CEO moves were announced or made in the last week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.

Kay Takes has been named president and CEO of Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque (Iowa), according to a TH Media report.

Val Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas, has finalized a management agreement with San Antonio-based Methodist Healthcare and named Xochy Hurtado CEO.

The American Heart Association has chosen a president and president-elect.

Mercy Health-Cincinnati has named Todd Lupton CFO.

USMD Hospital at Arlington (Texas) has appointed Laurie Lewis CNO.

Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, S.C., has named Tod Augsburger president and CEO, effective Oct. 1.

Robert Marmerstein has joined Texas City-based Mainland Medical Center, a Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America hospital, as COO.