Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth is preparing for change at the top of the organization. President and CEO Liz Dunne will retire after a decade of service to the organization, with a veteran PeaceHealth executive named to succeed her, according to a…
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Ron Belfont has been named interim vice president and CIO of Dover, Del.-based Bayhealth. Mr. Belfont brings three decades of technology experience, including the past 11 years at Bayhealth. He most recently served as chief information security officer. He replaces…
Marietta, Ga.-based Wellstar Health System has named Ketul Patel as its next president and CEO. Mr. Patel currently serves as CEO of Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health and president of Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health’s Pacific Northwest region. He plans to…
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth has named CEOs for two of its Florida hospitals. Aimee Keller-Pickford has been appointed CEO of AdventHealth Winter Garden (Fla.), according to a July 7 health system news release. Ms. Keller-Pickford has been with AdventHealth for…
Cliff Wilson was appointed market president and CEO of Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Health System, effective Aug. 11. Mr. Wilson will replace Troy Greer, who resigned in June after two years in the role. Mr. Greer’s departure marked the five-hospital system’s…
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Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Health System has named Melissa Smith system vice president of finance, according to a post on her LinkedIn page. Ms. Smith joins Nicklaus Children’s from Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System, where she served as vice president…
Las Vegas-based MountainView Hospital named Theresa Kloewer, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer. Ms. Kloewer comes from HCA Healthcare’s Summerville (S.C.) Medical Center, according to a July 7 hospital LinkedIn post. She has served in various leadership positions at HCA Healthcare…
Brian Roland was appointed CEO of Elkview General Hospital in Hobart, Okla., according to a July 7 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Roland brings three decades of healthcare experience to the new role, according to the release. Most recently,…
King City, Calif.-based Mee Memorial Healthcare System has named Emily Emery-Shea its new CFO. Ms. Emery-Shea joins Mee Memorial from Newberry, Mich.-based Helen Newberry Joy Hospital, according to a post on the health system’s LinkedIn page. She has more than…
Wyatt Chocklett was appointed CEO of Dickson, Tenn.-based TriStar Horizon Medical Center, part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, according to a July 7 news release shared with Becker’s. Most recently, Mr. Chocklett, a 14-year HCA veteran, served as COO of…