Maricopa Integrated Health System in Phoenix has hired executive search firm B. E. Smith to oversee the search for its next CEO.
Executive Moves
St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Paterson, N.J., has named Jeff Joyner as vice president of operations.
Edgar Curtis, FACHE, MBA, has served as president and CEO of Memorial Health System, a three-hospital system based in Springfield, Ill., since January 2008.
Surgical Specialty Hospital of Arizona in Phoenix has named William Comer CEO, according to a Phoenix Business Journal report.
John Orsini, CPA, former CFO of Chicago-based Presence Health, has been named executive vice president and CFO of Winfield, Ill.-based Cadence Health, according to a Market Wire report.
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Jessica Rivas, RN, has been named CNO of Phoenix-based John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital, effective March 11.
Cincinnati-based Mercy Health has named Dave Pike vice president of mission integration and community outreach, effective April 1.
Milwaukee-based Froedtert Health has named Caryn Esten as vice president of planning and strategic support services and James Klauck as vice president of ancillary services.
Rich Roodman has served as CEO of Renton, Wash.-based Valley Medical Center, or King County Public Hospital District No. 1, since 1983. VMC is a component entity of UW Medicine, based in Seattle.
While the national hospital CEO turnover rate was 17 percent in 2012, up from 16 percent in 2011, many states have rates well below the average, according to a recent report by the American College of Healthcare Executives.