Executive Moves

Banner Ironwood Medical Center in Pinal County, Ariz., has named Deb Krmpotic, RN, as its new CEO, according to a release from Banner Health.

Keith Harvey, CEO of Virginia (Minn.) Regional Medical Center, has resigned, according to WDIO News.

Bowie (Texas) Memorial Hospital has named Kim Lee as its new administrator, according to a report by the Bowie News.

Harold Brockman, CFO of Kittitas Valley Community Hospital in Ellensburg, Wash., has resigned, effective Jan. 13, according to a report by the Daily Record.

Vic Dirksen, CEO of Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend, Wash., has announced his retirement, effective at the end of 2010, according to a report by the Peninsula Daily News.

Dave Shaffer, CFO of Kern Health System in Bakersfield, Calif., announced his resignation, saying that stress of the position had taken a toll on his health, according to a report by KGET News.

Matthew Bailey will become president and CEO of 129-bed Clarian West Medical Center in Avon, Ind., according to a release from the hospital.

Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Systems has named new a leadership team for four-hospital Exempla Healthcare in Denver, following its recent administrative takeover of Exempla, according to the Denver Post.

Compensation in 2009 for executives at the two leading health-care systems in Charlotte, N.C. — including salary, bonuses and other benefits — changed little from the year before, according to a report by the Charlotte Business Journal.

Joe Morris, CEO of Kootenai Health, the public health system which oversees Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, has announced that he will retire in May 2011, according to a report by the Spokesman-Review.