After serving as president and CEO of The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years, Carolyn F. Scanlan announced she will step down at the end of this year, according to a report in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Executive Moves
St. Vincent's Health System in Birmingham, Ala., has named Sean Tinney as president and COO of St. Vincent's East in Birmingham, according to a Birmingham News report.
Tennova Healthcare in Knoxville, Tenn., has named Karen Metz as CEO of Physicians Regional Medical Center in Knoxville.
East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., has announced Glenn Harvin, MD, has joined its Brody School of Medicine and its group medical practice, ECU Physicians, according to a news release.
The University of California San Diego Health System has named Scott Lippman, MD, as the director of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla, Calif., effective May 1.
Franciscan Health System in Tacoma, Wash., has announced Donna Russell-Cook as president of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw, Wash., effective April 30.
Steward Health Care System in Boston has announced the abrupt resignation of Bill Walczak, president of its Carney Hospital in Dorchester, Mass., according to a Boston Globe report.
St. Luke's University Health Network based in Pennsylvania has named Scott Wolfe as president of its St. Luke's Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J., according to an Express-Times report.
For Peter McCanna, CFO of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, all hospital and health system CFOs should ask themselves the following four questions to become "uber" healthcare financial executives:
The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.