Executive Moves

CEO Bruce Christian has resigned from Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta (Calif.), according to a press release.

CEO Chris Whybrew has been removed from his position at Pauls Valley (Okla.) General Hospital after a joint meeting and executive session between the board and PVGH Trust Authority, according to a Pauls Valley Democrat report.

Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health CEO Valinda Rutledge will step down from her post at the health system to serve as director of the Patient Care Models Group at CMS' new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, according to a CaroMont…

Garett Jackson, CPA, currently serves as the chief financial officer of HCA's National Patient Account Services, a provider of early-out healthcare collection services based in Louisville, Ky. He started with the company a decade ago as controller and was quickly…

Adventist La Grange (Ill.) Memorial Hospital has named Keith Richardson vice president and CFO, according to a hospital news release.

Pensacola, Fla.-based Sacred Heart Health System has named Dana Bledsoe president of Sacred Heart Children's and Women's Hospital in Pensacola, according to a health system news release.

Jeffrey Rengel, MD, has joined the anesthesiology department at St. Mary's Medical Center, part of Essentia Health, both based in Duluth, Minn., according to a Duluth News Tribune report.

CEO Dennis Sisto will retire from Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, Calif., part of Orange, Calif.-based St. Joseph Health System, on July 31, according to a Times-Herald report.

President and CEO Roy Hitchings will retire from Rockland, Maine-based Pen Bay Healthcare next year, according to a health system news release.

Laureen L. Hill, MD, MBA, will become chair of anesthesiology at Emory's School of Medicine and chief of anesthesiology services at Atlanta's Emory Healthcare, effective Aug. 1, according to an Emory news release.