When your hospital board decides to hire a new CEO, the board members should be extremely thorough about deciding compensation, forming incented goals and planning for unexpected termination or departure. Nolan A. Newman, CPA, of accounting and healthcare consulting firm…
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During his tenure as chief financial officer of University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, current hospital president and CEO Kevin Burns shepherded UMC through three bond issues totaling $254 million to support the hospital's rapid growth and expansion. He set…
Rick Scott, the former CEO of HCA, has emerged from a nasty primary race to win the Republican nomination for Florida Governor, according to a report by the Miami Herald.
Charles Jordan, president of Integris Health's Mayes County Medical Center in Pryor, Okla., resigned last week, according to a Pryor Daily Times report.
Joseph J. Mullany has been named interim president and CEO of St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., until a replacement is named for former president John E. Smithhisler, according to a Telegram report.
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It may not be a permanent position, but the role of the interim CEO is essential to helping your hospital through an often-difficult transition. Here Kevin Troutman, chairman of the healthcare practice for Fisher and Phillips and a former healthcare…
As president and CEO of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, Dean M. Harrison is part of a strategic initiative to create one of the nation's top 10 academic medical centers by 2020. The health system plans to align…
South Dakota-based Avera Health has named Fred Slunecka COO, according to an Argus Leader report.
Pender Memorial Hospital in Burgaw, N.C., has named Chris Riggs CFO, according to a Star News Online report.
Wisconsin-based Aurora Advanced Healthcare has named William Ebinger, MD, president and chief of staff of the system's new hospital in Grafton, Wis., set to open Nov. 1, according to a Journal Sentinel report.