Carolyn Jackson has been appointed president and COO of Kent Hospital in Warwick, R.I., effective Feb. 2. Ms. Jackson brings more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience and most recently served as CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of…
Executive Moves
Mike Yost has retired as chief marketing officer of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health. Mr. Yost joined the now-16-hospital system in 2009 after working in branding for pharma giant Eli Lilly for over 11 years. “You will never meet a more…
Kelli Ferry has been named executive vice president and chief legal officer at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health. Ms. Ferry is a veteran of the 19-hospital system, having most recently served as deputy chief legal officer since 2022, according to a…
Rebekah Artman, BSN, RN, has been named chief nursing officer of Harris Regional Hospital and Swain Community Hospital in North Carolina. Both facilities are part of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Duke LifePoint Healthcare, a joint venture between Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health and…
West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health named Jonathan Kyriacou as president and CEO of Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center, effective Jan. 26. Mr. Kyriacou most recently served as COO of The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a 1,134-bed academic…
Lander, Wyo.-based SageWest Health Care has named Amanda Vick, BSN, as CEO of its two hospitals, effective Jan. 5. Ms. Vick returns to SageWest after serving in several leadership roles at Scottsbluff, Neb.-based Regional West Health Services, according to a…
Methodist Fremont Health in Nebraska has named Michele Williams, MD, to serve as chief medical officer. Dr. Williams is an emergency medicine physician and has worked in several leadership roles at the hospital over the past five years, including as…
Secaucus, N.J.-based Hudson Regional Health has appointed Doug Zehner as executive vice president and system CFO. Mr. Zehner most recently served as Northeast regional CFO of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health, where he oversaw financial planning, campus revitalization projects and…
Rick Lyman retired Jan. 1 from his role as senior vice president of enterprise revenue cycle management at Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System, according to a post on his LinkedIn page. He joined Memorial Hermann in 2016 and previously served…
Abilene, Kan.-based Memorial Health System has named Tori Bowers its new CFO. Ms. Bowers succeeds Elgin Glanzer, who retired in December after 31 years at the system, according to a Dec. 31 Memorial Health System news release. Ms. Bowers, a…