Executive Moves

Bangor, Maine-based Northern Light Acadia Hospital tapped Samantha Foss, DNP, RN, as vice president of nursing and patient care services, The Piscataquis Observer reported Nov. 8.

Effective Jan. 6, Gem Gibbons, BSN, RN, will become chief nursing officer at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center in New York. 

Dan Barbee, BSN, who served as CEO of University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio from 2016 to 2020, will return to the role Nov. 8.

As its current president and CEO prepares to retire, Northfield (Minn.) Hospital + Clinics has appointed a new leader from MaineHealth.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has named Tom Cronin regional vice president for the system's Sarah Cannon Cancer Network in its Far West Division. 

Valerie Newman was named COO of St. David's Georgetown (Texas) Hospital, effective Sept. 30, according to a news release shared with Becker's.

Samantha Maltin, the former marketing leader of "Sesame Street" producer Sesame Workshop, has joined St. Jude Children's fundraising and awareness arm as chief marketing and brand officer.

John Tucker was named president of Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida, Colo., effective Jan. 2. 

UK HealthCare in Lexington, Ky., has appointed two executives to its C-suite, the system said Nov. 6. 

Mo Sheldon, CEO of Northern Cochise Community Hospital in Willcox, Ariz., will step down from the role in November.