Hospital Sisters Health System and the board of directors of St. Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls, Wis., named Joan Coffman as incoming president and CEO, according to an HSHS news release.
Executive Moves
Geoffrey Cole, president and CEO of 328-bed Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital, has resigned, according to a report by The Hour.
President Obama is expected to appoint Donald Berwick, MD, a pediatrician, Harvard professor and president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has been without a permanent leader since Oct.…
J. Larry Read is retiring as CEO of as president and CEO of University Health Care System, which runs 581-bed University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., according to a report by the Augusta Chronicle.
Health Management Associates has named Melody Trimble, CEO of Sparks Health System in Fort Smith, Ark., as CEO of the Year, according to the City Wire.
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Catholic Health East has promoted John Johnson, CEO of Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Mercy Hospital in Miami to executive vice president of ministry operation for the health system, effective May 1, according to a report by…
Bon Secours Health System has named Philip A. Patterson as CEO of Suffern, N.Y.-based Bon Secours Charity Health System, according to a BSCHS news release.
Michael Hammer has resigned the presidency of 73-bed Good Samaritan Health Center in Merrill, Wis., to look for jobs outside 16-hospital Ministry Health Care, which runs the hospital, according to a report by WSAU TV.
Novant Health's 70-bed Franklin Regional Medical Center in Louisburg, N.C., has named Jason Proctor as its new president, according to a report by the Triangle Business Journal.
Nemours has named Roger Oxendale as the new CEO of Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, which is scheduled to open in 2012, according to a report by the Orlando Sentinel.