Executive Moves

Forks (Wash.) Community Hospital has retained B. E. Smith to leads its search for a new CEO.

After seven months as president and CEO of Bozeman (Mont.) Deaconess Hospital, Stan Moser has resigned and told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that he "might have been encouraged to do so."

Michael Wiemann, MD, serves as the executive vice president of the Providence West Region of Warren, Mich.-based St. John Providence Health System and the president of Providence Hospital in Southfield, Mich. As president he leads more than 3,400 staff members;…

Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, a part of Jackson Health System, is a non-profit, tertiary care hospital and the major teaching facility for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., has named Carlton Ulmer as CEO, effective Aug. 1, according to a WMBB 13 report.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente has named Peter Makowski as COO of Honolulu-based Moanalua Medical Center, according to a Hawaii News Now report.

Amarillo, Texas-based Northwest Texas Healthcare System CEO Kyle Sanders has announced his resignation, effective July 19, according to an Amarillo Globe-News report.

St. Luke's Sugar Land (Texas) Hospital has named Robert Heifner CEO effective July 9, according to a Houston Business Journal report.

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital, part of the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, is one of the largest public-owned hospitals in Florida and was the first modern hospital in its county.

Rohit Bhalla, MD, has been named vice president of quality and chief quality officer of Stamford (Conn.) Hospital.