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Executive Moves

HCA has announced that Richard M. Bracken will become chairman of HCA's board of directors, effective Dec. 15, replacing Jack O. Bovender, who is retiring from the company, according to an HCA news release.

Joe Damore, CEO of Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., has resigned, effective Jan. 31, according to a report by WHKP Radio.

MCG Health, the parent company of the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics, has named Sandra I. McVicker as its interim CEO, according to a report by the Augusta Chronicle.

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UAB Medical West Hospital in Bessemer, Ala., has named Tom R. McDougal, Jr., its new CEO, according to a report by the Birmingham Business Journal.

Columbia St. Mary's has named Deborah Friberg as the new president of Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Milwaukee (Wis.), according to a report in The Business Journal of Milwaukee.

Laurence Tanner, CEO of the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain, Conn., will retire in early 2010, according to a report in The Bristol Press.

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