Executive Moves

CEO John Welsh is retiring from Rumford (Maine) Hospital after 23 years on July 1, according to a Sun Journal report.

CEO C. Shayne George is leaving Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga., on May 31 for a position at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson, Fla., according to an Augusta Chronicle report.

Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System has named Lowell Johnson, FACHE, interim CEO effective April 26, according to a hospital news release.

Cincinnati-based UC Health has named Anil Jain, MD, FACP, senior vice president and the organization's first chief medical information officer, according to a hospital news release.

CEO Peter J. Betts has resigned from Johnson Memorial Medical Center in Stafford Springs, Conn., according to a Hartford Business Journal report.

CEO Lance Jones is leaving Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center in Hartsville, S.C., on April 26 to take a new position with the Center's operator, Health Management Associates, according to an SCNOW.com report.

CEO Bernie Mattingly will retire from Cookeville (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center on May 1, according to a Herald-Citizen report.

The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.

A bill in the North Carolina Senate would place a moratorium on Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health System's affiliations with other hospitals or physicians until the end of the year or until the state can implement a price cap, according to…

CEO Maria Montanaro is leaving Thundermist Health Center in Woonsocket, R.I., on June 17 to join her husband in Des Moines, Iowa, according to her letter to the hospital.