Executive Moves

Advocate Health Care has named Allison "Allie" Wyler president of the Central Chicagoland area and Park Ridge, Ill.-based Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. 

Penn State Health has named Don McKenna permanent president of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa. 

Melissa Emerson, BSN, RN, is the new chief operating officer at Boynton Beach, Fla.-based Bethesda Hospital. 

UChicago Medicine has appointed Kimyatta Washington vice president and chief administrative officer of cancer services for the health system, effective Feb. 1.

Kissimmee-based HCA Florida Poinciana Hospital appointed Cullen Brown CEO, effective Dec. 29. 

Oregon Health & Science University said it will search for a new CEO of its healthcare operations as OHSU and Legacy Health work through the due diligence phase of combining.

Boston-based Beth Israel Lahey Health has appointed Nic Nguyen, MD, chief medical officer and senior vice president of the system's primary care division.

Three board members have departed Memorial Hospital of Texas County in Guymon, Okla., and its CEO plans to retire at the end of March, according to a Jan. 4 LinkedIn post.

Victor Almeida, DO, has been selected to be the next chief medical officer at RWJBarnabas Health's Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood, N.J.

Jim Sheets has been appointed president of Intermountain Health healthcare operations in Colorado, Montana, Kansas, Wyoming, and New Mexico.